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Nature World News By Rhenn Anthony Taguiam | Feb 13, 2017 Scientists are finally one step closer to harnessing massive amounts of clean energy via nuclear fusion. If all goes well, humans may not need fossil fuels as early as 2030. GREIFSWALD, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 03: The interior of the new Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion … Read more
phys.org February 13, 2017 Fusion experiments known as stellarators work by confining a mass of superheated plasma (orange horizontal mass) inside a magnetic field generated by external electromagnetic coils (multicolored vertical bands). A UMD physicist has made a revision to the software tools used to design these complex coil shapes, allowing researchers to create better … Read more
Lehigh University By: Kurt Pfitzer | February 09, 2017 Arindam Banerjee (right) and Ph.D. candidates Zachary Farley (left) and Andrew Bergey set up a test on a two-wheel, high-acceleration track, which simulates the instabilities of the fusion reactor by rotating a container filled with two fluids of different densities. (Photo by Douglas Benedict) Serious discussions … Read more
pnas.org vol. 114 no. 6 > Adam Mann, 1217–1219, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618480113 In the earliest days of the Cold War, physicists on both sides of the Iron Curtain raced to harness energy from nuclear fusion, which could, in principle, provide nearly limitless electricity. Innovative devices with names like pinch machines, levitrons, and superstators flourished, and for … Read more
Business Recorder Feb. 3, 2017 Nuclear fusion is a technology based on the natural reactions constantly taking place on the surface of our Sun producing an infinite fuel source with almost zero carbon emissions, happening as two atoms of hydrogen are fused together under extreme temperatures to produce another element, helium. The process as a … Read more
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 1 Feb 2017 CEA – Tungsten monoblock elements The WEST project’s success in producing its first plasma allows it to test materials for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. A tokamak in France has produced its first plasma, demonstrating the success of modifications made to the fusion reactor. The … Read more
PPPL February 1, 2017 Valeria Riccardo Photo by Elle Starkman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Valeria Riccardo has joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as the new head of engineering. She has more than 20 years of experience in project management, fusion design and analysis on two fusion devices in the U.K. that are similar to … Read more
World Nuclear Association (Updated January 2017) Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, but it also presents so far insurmountable scientific and engineering challenges. The main hope is centred on tokamak reactors and stellarators which confine a deuterium-tritium plasma magnetically. Today, many countries take part in fusion … Read more
Futurism.com June Javelosa | January 30, 2017 IN BRIEF A Canadian collective has released Fusion 2030, a report in which they ask the government for an investment of $125 million to build a working nuclear fusion plant prototype by 2030. Nuclear fusion could be the most valuable renewable energy option as it has the highest … Read more
Next Big Future January 30, 2017 Experimental and theoretical research has shown ‘spherical’ tokamaks to be a “fast route to fusion” compared with more “conventional” tokamak devices such as Joint European Torus (JET), according to David Kingham, chief executive of Tokamak Energy. “By pursuing this route, fusion researchers around the world, including at Tokamak Energy, … Read more