Fusion News

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

Reuters Jul 13, 2016 Model of the future experimental nuclear fusion reactor in Cadarache, north of Marseille, June 30, 2005. REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAU/FILES Iran is assessing whether to apply for associate membership of the ITER multi-national nuclear fusion project, its director said on Wednesday, just a year after Tehran struck a deal with six world powers … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald | July 12, 2016 Inside the new nanolaboratory. Front and center from left: Philip Efthimion, head of the Plasma Science and Technology Department, Charles Gentile, lead engineer for the nanolab, and Yevgeny Raitses, principal investigator and head of the facility. Behind them are members of the PPPL nanolab team. Plasma – … Read more

commonweathmagazine.org SUMMER 2016 Edward M. Murphy A Q&A with a remarkably optimistic Dennis Whyte from MIT GREATER BOSTON IS on a roll, propelled by innovation. The US Chamber of Commerce recently named the region number one in the nation for “fostering entrepreneurial growth and innovation.” Our universities, medical institutions, research labs, and venture capitalists have … Read more

RT.com 13 Jul, 2016 Sectional view of ITER’s tokamak © wikipedia.org Iran and France have agreed to work on an international nuclear fusion project, an Iranian official has announced. The deal, which is yet to be confirmed by Paris, comes a year after Iran and six world powers came to terms over Tehran’s atomic program. … Read more

Tradearabia.com July 13, 2016 Contractors install the main cranes of the Assembly Hall of the ITER project. Photo courtesy: ITER.org Iran said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with France to take part in a multi-national nuclear fusion project, a year after it struck a deal with six world powers to curb its own … Read more

Eurofusion June 27th 2016 If someone was definitely not in hibernation, it was EUROfusion during the past half year. In February, the three tokamaks JET, ASDEX Upgrade and TCV were running simultaneously, accompanied by the first experimental campaign of the shiny new Wendelstein 7-X device. Two more experiments, MAST-U and WEST, are also about to … Read more

Times of Israel BY EDITH M. LEDERER July 9, 2016 Spokesman says signing of deal with world powers last summer encouraged Tehran’s participation in the ITER initiative The Iranian flag flies in front of a UN building, Friday, July 4, 2014. (AP/Ronald Zak) Iran is hoping to join an international project in southern France that … Read more

HispanTV July 5, 2016 The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) cooperate in the global project to commercially produce energy by nuclear fusion, known as ITER. “It has been established increased cooperation and relations the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER, its acronym in English) and Iranian scientists” , announced Tuesday AEOI spokesman, Behruz Kamalvandi. … Read more

Dereporteros.com by Claudia Rodriguez | July 4, 2016 building a reactor is intended laboratory scale Tokamak As part of the international effort to create new sources of renewable energy, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) works with scientists from Mexico and the world to create new sources of alternative energy, through the development of technologies applicable … Read more