Fusion News

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

Politico By SARA STEFANINI 3/29/17 The €13 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is under construction in France | ITER CULHAM, England — Just as European scientists here gear up to put decades of experiments to the test and try to bottle up the nuclear reaction that powers every star in the universe, Brexit is … Read more

BDaily Billy Wood 09 MAR 2017 Former Made in Chelsea cast member, Richard Dinan, is hoping to raise £200m and crack one of the holy grails of energy science – affordable, scalable nuclear fusion technology. The entrepreneur and former reality TV star is hoping to build a pair of nuclear fusion reactors, backed by a … Read more

New York Times HENRY FOUNTAINMARCH 27, 2017 Source: ITER Organization Mika Gröndahl/The New York Times SAINT-PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France — At a dusty construction site here amid the limestone ridges of Provence, workers scurry around immense slabs of concrete arranged in a ring like a modern-day Stonehenge. It looks like the beginnings of a large commercial power … Read more

Nature by Mikio Fukuhara Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 37740 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep37740 Published online: 23 November 2016 Abstract The cause and source of the heat released from Earth’s interior have not yet been determined. Some research groups have proposed that the heat is supplied by radioactive decay or by a nuclear georeactor. Here we postulate … Read more