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Science Magazine By Daniel Clery | Apr. 28, 2016 At one of the most critical time in its history, leaders of the ITER fusion project are struggling to find a way to keep the project on track as schedules slip, costs rise, and budgets tighten. The project’s management last year put forward a revised schedule … Read more
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
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
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
People’s Online Daily April 26, 2016 The world-class ICRH antenna, manufactured by ASIPP, was delivered to a French institute in Anhui province on Monday. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi) The development of a world-class ion cyclotron resonant heating (ICRH) antenna, a key part of a French nuclear fusion facility, was completed by the Institute of Plasma Physics at … Read more
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
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
Daily Illini By Michael Semaca | 04/18/16 Photo courtesy of Michael Semaca | The Daily Illini The HIDRA, the University’s fusion device. The University’s nuclear fusion device, the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications, or HIDRA, will finally be completed and will form its first plasma Friday. This process will allow researchers like Dr. … Read more
The Maven Apr. 19 2016 Nuclear research in the UK has been descibed as “world class” An independent review into nuclear fission and fusion research in the UK has backed the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s “world-class” fusion programme. The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) commissioned the review to guide its future strategy. The … Read more
phys.org April 15, 2016 I mène Goumiri led the design of a controller. Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion … Read more