Fusion News

PPPL By Raphael Rosen | September 9, 2016 Graduate Student Felipe Bedoya Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have successfully tested a new device that will lead to a better understanding of the interactions between ultrahot plasma contained within fusion facilities and the materials inside those facilities. The … Read more

WASET Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 23 – 24, 2017 Conference Aims and Objectives The ICPPF 2017: 19th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Fusion aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Plasma Physics and Fusion. It also provides … Read more

TU/e 14 September 2016 Last week, two TU/e scientists, Federico Felici and Guido Huijsmans, have been named ITER Scientist Fellow. The ITER Scientist Fellows are willing to share and apply their expertise to solve some of ITER’s high priority research needs. ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, … Read more

Euro-fusion.org 14th September 2016 Marconi Fusion hosted at CINECA Marconi-Fusion, the new High Performance Computer (HPC) for fusion applications, was inaugurated at the CINECA headquarters in Bologna on 14 September 2016. The goal of this system will be to provide a common HPC platform for European fusion researchers. In 2015, EUROfusion’s highest decision-making body, the … Read more

PPPL By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe | September 9, 2016 Hanna Schamis, a Science Undergraduate Laboratory intern at PPPL, in front of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) When Hanna Schamis packed her bags for graduate school this summer, she already had two summers of hands-on research under her belt as an intern at the U.S. … Read more

Columbia Engineering APAM senior research scientist and adjunct professor Dr. Steven A. Sabbagh will lead a new joint international grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study high performance tokamak plasma disruption prediction and avoidance in the long-pulse Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) located in Daejeon, South Korea. APAM associate research scientist … Read more

Nucnet.org 09.09.2016 Fusion energy has the potential to become a virtually inexhaustible, safe and environmentally friendly energy source, capable of meeting global energy requirements, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Yukiyo Amano said during a visit to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) construction site in southern France. IAEA director-general Yukiyo Amano Mr Amano welcomed the … Read more

Phys.org September 12, 2016 The figure above shows ELM structure in the ELM-crash-suppression phase. Black lines in the ECE image are the reconstructed flux surfaces and the red lines are the separatrix position. Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST claims to have made yet another step towards finding a solution to one … Read more

Fusion for Energy 09 September 2016 View of the ITER construction site- Site Services building and Assembly Hall, August 2016, LNM (copyright) The impressive complex consisting of the Tokamak, Diagnostics and Tritium buildings is rising fast. The construction and reinforcement works of the floors, walls and ceilings are offering a rare view of the inner-core … Read more

districtenergy.org October 5, 2016 Future Power Magazine (Net Resources International [NRI]) reports on the latest progress in nuclear fusion. The report notes that fusion power is the ultimate carbon-free energy source, but getting net energy out of the process is not yet practically viable. It currently takes more energy to initiate and contain a fusion … Read more