ITER nuclear fusion project faces new delay, cost overrun: Les Echos

American Energy News May 2, 2016 Nuclear fusion reactor will not see first test of super-heated plasma before 2025 C onstruction of the ITER nuclear fusion project in Cadarache, France will continue. ITER organization photo. PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) – The international ITER project to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor will be delayed by … Read more

Nuclear techniques measure damage in superconducting cables for fusion energy research reactor

Phys.org May 2, 2016 ANSTO researchers have joined the thousands of experts from 35 countries working worldwide to resolve technological challenges relating to a world’s fusion energy collaboration, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France by assisting with neutron diffraction studies on the materials used in the superconducting cables. Measurements on the Kowari residual … Read more

The First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant in the UK

transhumanist April 30, 2016 The UK is going to be the first country to release nuclear fusion power plant, which is going to be a massive contribution to the British Economy. The Chinese limitless nuclear energy In the beginning of February, the Scientists in China have announced that they have successfully produced Hydrogen gas which … Read more

Fusion analysis suggests promise for smaller, cheaper reactors

the Engineer By Stuart Nathan 29th April 2016 New analysis of experimental plasma containment devices suggests that making energy from nuclear fusion might not require the building of enormous, complicated fusion reactors. Alan Costley, a physicist working for the company Tokomak Solutions in Culham, Oxfordshire, has written a paper in the journal Nuclear Fusion which … Read more

The Secretive, Billionaire-Backed Plans to Harness Fusion

BBC By Jonathan Frochtzwajg, 28 April 2016 The founders of Amazon and Microsoft are putting their fortunes into little-known fusion energy companies. Jonathan Frochtzwajg digs into a story that has strange parallels with fiction. Inside a laboratory near Vancouver in British Columbia, an alarm is blaring. In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what … Read more

Fusion technology breakthrough could herald demise of coal

Nation (Thailand) John Draper Special to The Nation April 20, 2016 1:00 am A major breakthrough in fusion technology was last week confirmed by a Freedom of Information Act request made by the emerging technologies website nextbigfuture.com. Previously confidential US Navy technical review reports of the progress of the US-based company EMC2 in 2012 and … Read more

Forging a Role in Low-end Nuclear Fusion

Prachatai.org John Draper April 22, 2016 Foreword The below lead op ed column, written with Dr. Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, a former dean of the College of Local Administration at Khon Kaen University, was published in the Bangkok Post on April 18, 2016. It notes that EMC2, a private company historically backed by the US Navy, DARPA, … Read more

Fusion Reactor Still in Works

VOA George Putic | April 22, 2016 All today’s nuclear power plants make energy by thge splitting of uranium atoms — which creates a lot of useful heat but also a lot of dangerous and deadly nuclear waste. The opposite process — fusion — also creates heat but with hardly any pesky radiation. The problem … Read more