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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
Phys.org January 30, 2017 It’s tough to measure the concentration of the single or neutral hydrogen atoms in fusion plasmas. The temperatures reach tens of thousands of degrees or more. A new calibration technique to improve these measurements uses different fluorescence pathways in a laser-induced fluorescence measurement system. Xenon (blue) and krypton (red) fluorescence have … Read more
WNN 30 January 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, are developing … Read more
nature.com Elizabeth Gibney | 27 January 2017 UK’s role in major fusion projects remains in limbo. The UK’s plan to leave Euratom has thrown into doubt the future of the Joint European Torus (JET), a nuclear-fusion facility in Culham, UK. Scientists are shocked and angry at the UK government’s sudden confirmation on 26 January that … Read more
Report UK January 27, 2017 Theresa May yesterday confirmed the government”s plan to leave the European atomic energy community (Euratom), the body which ensures the safe use of nuclear energy across the continent. The decision to leave the organisation set up in 1957, and governed by European Union institutions, was buried in the explanatory notes … Read more