Fusion News

The Guardian 2 December 2016 The €18bn Iter nuclear fusion research centre in Provence, France. Photograph: Iter It’s been a long time coming, but the world’s top powers are now betting billions on the Iter collaboration to deliver clean, safe, limitless energy for the modern world “We are standing on the ground that could change … Read more

WNN 30 November 2016 “Nothing has changed” regarding the future for the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET), centre head Ian Chapman said today. CCFE head Ian Chapman in the control room at JET (Image: CCFE) The CCFE is the UK’s national laboratory for fusion research based at … Read more

By: Irvin R. Lindemuth, Ph.D. formerly (retired 2003) Special Assistant for Russian Collaboration– Office of Associate Director for Weapons Physics, Team Leader for MHD and Plasma Physics, Project Leader for Pulsed Power Science, Technology and International Collaboration Los Alamos National Laboratory sometimes Adjunct and/or part-time Research Professor Physics Department, U. of Nevada, Reno Invited tutorial … Read more

Dec. 1, 2016 This is a brief update with photos of the Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This is the first step in the critical path of the proposed Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion (PJMIF) project proposed by Dr. Scott Hsu and his colleagues. The current team of HyperV and … Read more

BBC 29 November 2016 JET holds the record for the longest sustained nuclear fusion reaction A question mark hangs over a world-leading laboratory that has pioneered research into fusion for nearly 40 years. The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy near Oxford is largely funded by the EU and dozens of its scientists come from outside … Read more

The Conversation November 29, 2016 The plasma inside a fusion reactor. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory For centuries, humans have dreamed of harnessing the power of the sun to energize our lives here on Earth. But we want to go beyond collecting solar energy, and one day generate our own from a mini-sun. If we’re able … Read more

CCFE 29/11/2016 With so much emphasis on the final construction of MAST Upgrade, it is easy to overlook the extensive planning of the first physics experiments on Culham’s new fusion device towards the end of 2017. The EUROfusion consortium of European fusion laboratories is already preparing proposals for the first MAST-U experiments and these plans … Read more

Phys.org November 28, 2016 The magnetic field lines that confine a high-temperature plasma and the liquid metal shower divertors, as seen from above through a cross-section. Credit: Dr. Junichi Miyazawa /div> In a magnetic field confinement fusion reactor, we maintain the high-temperature plasma through the magnetic field lines by floating the plasma apart from a … Read more

Environmental Leader November 28, 2016 If there is an ideal energy form, it is nuclear fusion. But the technology is one of those that is always within reach but still so far away. With that, though, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that it is advancing the ball, as is a group of nations hard … Read more

the Engineer By Stuart Nathan | 28th October 2016 A real-time map of plasma stability could be key to maximising power output in nuclear fusion Keeping a nuclear fusion plasma stable is probably the most important aspect of controlling these potential future energy sources. In the type of reactor under the most intense investigation around … Read more