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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
sciencemag.com Richard Stone | 09 Sep 2016 A fusion research program nurtured in isolation could blossom as Iran joins the ITER megaproject. Islamic Azad University’s Chinese-made tokamak could see action as an ITER test bed. PHOTO: FARHAD BABAEI The Damavand tokamak is an unlikely emblem of hope for Iranian science. Named after Iran’s tallest mountain, … Read more
Business Korea Cho Jin-young | 9 September 2016 South Korea’s superconducting nuclear fusion simulator KSTAR. A team of Korean researchers found a new principle that can control an edge localized mode (ELM) The National Fusion Research Institute announced on September 8 that they found out that a turbulent flow in a magnetic field of a … Read more
Engineering.com Meghan Brown | September 06, 2016 These 2016 GA undergraduate interns in fusion science and plasma physics continued a program so successful it has generated second- and third-generation scientists. Pictured here at DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. (Image courtesy of General Atomics) The start of the school year also means the end … Read more
University of Rochester September 6, 2016 bank of lighted laser amplifiersThe OMEGA laser’s 20-cm disk amplifiers at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. (Photo by Adam Fenster/University of Rochester) Scientists at the University of Rochester have taken a significant step forward in laser fusion research. Experiments using the OMEGA laser at the University’s … Read more