Fusion News

Oxford Times April 21, 2017 UK Atomic Energy Authority scientists working on the MAST Upgrade Tokamak fusion reactor at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. A GROUNDBREAKING project to create clean energy from seawater has been given a major boost at a time of great uncertainty in the form of £21m funding. Culham Centre for Fusion … Read more

Die Welt 10.04.2017 The experimental reactor Iter is intended to solve mankind’s energy problems. According to Director General Bernard Bigot more and more countries want to join. But they all share one concern. Nuclear fusion reactors could solve mankind’s energy problems as it is clean and safe. Yet the big problem is that so far … Read more

WNN 19 April 2017 The UK’s MAST Upgrade tokamak is to receive £21 million ($27 million) in funding to upgrade its plasma exhaust systems. The upgrades will allow fusion researchers to improve their understanding of plasma exhaust physics. MAST Upgrade (Image: UKAEA) The controlled exhaust of power and particles from a hot fusion plasma, through … Read more

WNN 18 April 2017 Tokamak Energy has highlighted the contribution fusion energy can make to the UK’s new industrial strategy and how government policy can support its rapid development and large-scale commercial deployment. In an ‘open letter’ sent to World Nuclear News, Tokamak Energy’s chief executive, David Kingham, outlined his response to the government’s Building … Read more

Xinhua 2017-04-12 Representatives of the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of South China (USC) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research collaboration on fusion energy technology on ANU campus in Canberra, Australia, April 12, 2017. As the first project under the MoU, the ANU has agreed to provide the USC with its … Read more

Forbes Ethan Siegel | APR 12, 2017 The plasma in the center of this fusion reactor is so hot it doesn’t emit light; it’s only the cooler plasma located at the walls that can be seen. Hints of magnetic interplay between the hot and cold plasmas can be seen. National Fusion Research Institute, Korea Let’s … Read more

Next Big Future by brian wang | April 3, 2017 General Fusion has revealed that one of the most critical and complex areas of its research and development – plasma injector technology – has now reached the minimum performance levels required for a larger scale, integrated prototype. First plasmas had been expected for the PI3 … Read more

PPPL April 6, 2017 Physicist Angela Capece in PPPL’s Surface Science and Technology Lab in front of the machine she used in her research Everyone knows that the game of billiards involves balls careening off the sides of a pool table — but few people may know that the same principle applies to fusion reactions. … Read more

PPPL April 5, 2017 Simulation of plasma turbulence generating positive (red) and negative (blue) residual stress that drives rotation shear. (inset) Comparison between measured and simulated rotation profile. Image courtesy of W.X. Wang. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics have simulated a mysterious self-organized flow … Read more

Bloomberg by Brad Stone April 3, 2017 The company’s recently updated website gives a peek into Mike Cassidy’s vision. Hi folks, it’s Brad with the latest edition of the Fully Charged newsletter (sign up here). Last week was a rather grim one for Silicon Valley’s fervent community of environmentalists and clean energy advocates. With the … Read more