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Business Insider August 3, 2016 A nuclear reactor featured in the film Spiderman 2. The universe is full of phenomena that we can’t fully explain: Black holes, exploding stars, rapidly spinning stellar corpses… In order to get closer to understanding these cosmic oddities, scientists have to constantly push the boundaries of science, advancing technology and … Read more
PPPL By John Greenwald | July 29, 2016 (Photo by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications) Graduate student Yuan Shi Among the intriguing issues in plasma physics are those surrounding X-ray pulsars — collapsed stars that orbit around a cosmic companion and beam light at regular intervals, like lighthouses in the sky. Physicists want to know the … Read more
IPP Isabella Milch | July 08, 2016 Productive scientific programme / Modification in the plasma vessel well underway After about 2,200 plasma pulses since operation began in December 2015 the first experimental campaign on the Wendelstein 7-X research device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald was successfully concluded in March. Modifications … Read more
futurism.com By Patrick Caughill | June 17, 2016 IN BRIEF Three papers released by an English startup, Tokamak Energy, are challenging established science that in the area of fusion reactors, bigger is not always better. A startup out of the United Kingdom claims that it can deliver a reactor with fusion power gain within five … Read more
Sputnik News 27.07.2016 Iran has a lot to offer the international ITER project to build the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device, Iranian experts told Sputnik. Iran is in negotiations to join the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project, a collaboration to build the world’s largest tokamak, a device which uses magnetic fields to … Read more
By Scott Hsu, Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory July 12, 2016 Challenges at ITER and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) bolster the quip that fusion is always thirty years away. This is increasingly bringing into question fusion’s “monoculture” (e.g., see Dan Clery’s editorial, Dec. 2014). Because renewable and fission energy are being deployed, despite … Read more
PSFC-MIT Paul Rivenberg | July 12, 2016 Mike Rosenberg will receive the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in November at the APS DPP Meeting Eugene Kowaluk, LLE, University of Rochester Although Mike Rosenberg received his PhD from MIT (Department of Physics) in September 2014, his work at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center … Read more
LANL July 21, 2016 Cutaway view of an imploding plasma liner (blue), formed by 60 inward-directed plasma jets, as it engages a magnetized plasma fuel target. (Plasma is hot, ionized gas. CREDIT: Copyright HyperV Technologies Corp Promising advances in nuclear fusion research from a new, low-cost experiment Sixty kilograms of fusion fuel would power a … Read more
I-HLS May 16, 2016 the post is also avaible in: Hebrew :הכתבה זמינה גם ב Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest defense contractor, has been aiming for some time now to use nuclear fusion to create cheap electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byproducts that are totally safe and releases no air pollution. The … Read more
The Engineer 11th July 2016 The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has successfully completed its first stages of research, heating plasmas to temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius and achieving pulse lengths of six seconds. Known as W7-X, the nuclear fusion device is the largest stellarator ever constructed, using 50 computer-designed electromagnets to guide superheated plasma around … Read more