Swedish superconductor wins prize for nuclear fusion technology

Swedish superconductor wins prize for nuclear fusion technology

Institution of Mechanical Engineers 05 Sep 2016 Engineers develop cables able to handle the high currents from nuclear fusion power plants This article has been temporaly removed pending verification and correction from the original source of: “Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

29th SOFT opens its curtains in Prague

29th SOFT opens its curtains in Prague

ITER News 05 SEP, 2016 – Sabina Griffith The 29th edition of the Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) today opened its curtains in the Czech capital of Prague. With 30 exhibitors and more than 800 scheduled posters and presentations, SOFT once more proves to be one of the major platforms for exchanging the latest developments … Read more

PPPL intern creates software for snapshot of plasma in NSTX-U

PPPL intern creates software for snapshot of plasma in NSTX-U

PPPL By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe | September 2, 2016 (Photo by Chris Cane/PPPL Office of Communications) Max Wallace, a Community College intern from Laney College in Oakland, California, shows fellow intern Priya Jaglal a poster on his research during a student poster session at PPPL on Aug. 10. Wallace developed software to allow scientists to … Read more

Fusing Energies

Fusing Energies

Swarthmore College By Ryan DoughertyAugust 3rd, 2016 From left: Professor and Department Chair of Physics & Astronomy Mike Brown, Jeremy Han ’17, Jaron Shrock ’18, Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor of Physics David Schaffner, and postdoctoral research fellow Manjit Kaur in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment lab. Could a magnetic blob percolating at Swarthmore save the … Read more

One Step Closer in Generating Power Out of Nuclear Fusion

One Step Closer in Generating Power Out of Nuclear Fusion

Gineersnow.com 29.08.2016 Via Princeton Plasma Physics Lab There are different ways to generate power out of renewable sources, but rarely does fusion power – the result of fusing the nuclei of two or more lighter atoms into one heavier nucleus – come into mind. Although it holds a promise in providing a low-cost, sustainable energy … Read more