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The Nation March 12, 2016 The path to creating sustainable fusion energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electricity has led to a point where the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director … Read more
University of Liverpool Supervisor(s) Edoardo Patelli (Engineering) Rob Akers (CCFE) Gillian Murray (VEC) Funding details a stipend of £17,057 pa for 4 years. For exceptional candidates this may increased. Starting Arrangements start date as soon as possible Restrictions on student nationality UK only The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is one of Europe’s leading … Read more
nature.com Nature Physics 12, 14–17 (2016) doi:10.1038/nphys3625 Published online 07 January 2016 Didier Mazon, Christel Fenzi & Roland Sabot Sustaining and measuring high temperatures in fusion plasmas is a challenging task that requires different heating systems and diagnostic tools. Information on the spatial distribution of temperature is one of the key elements for improving and … Read more
PPPL By Raphael Rosen | March 7, 2016 PPPL scientists Robert Mozulay and Weiguo Que (Photo by Hans Schneider) The electric current that powers fusion experiments requires superb control. Without it, the magnetic coils the current drives cannot contain and shape the plasma that fuels experiments in doughnut-shaped tokamaks correctly. One of the digital firing … Read more
Canadian Nuclear Association OTTAWA (March 7, 2016) – The Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) today congratulates CNA members General Fusion and Terrestrial Energy on recently being awarded grants from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). “The federal government’s grants to General Fusion and Terrestrial are recognition that nuclear energy is a sustainable form of low-carbon energy,” said … Read more
Phys.org March 7, 2016 Image of the inside of MIT’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak, with a representative cross-section of a plasma. The inset shows the approximate domain for one of the multi-scale simulations and a graphic of the plasma turbulence in the multi-scale simulation. Credit: Nathan Howard, MIT Cutting-edge simulations run at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s … Read more
Australian National University 7 MARCH 2016 Matthew Hole (L) and Zhisong Qu at the virtual control room for overseas fusion experiments in RSPE. Image Stuart Hay “It will open the door to understanding a whole lot more about fusion plasmas, and contribute to the development of a long term energy solution for the planet.” Scientists … Read more
Techmagazine.com 04 March 2016 BURNABY, B.C. — Innovative cleantech company General Fusion has been awarded $12.75 million by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to continue developing its fusion energy technology, culminating in the design of a full-scale fusion energy demonstration system. The grant, announced in Edmonton today by Navdeep Bains, federal minister of Innovation, Science … Read more
phys.org February 5, 2016 by Peter Hergersberg Thomas Klinger, director at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in front of the 725-ton-heavy plasma container for the nuclear fusion experiment Wendelstein 7-X located in Greifswald. Credit: Stefan Sauer Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) produced the first helium plasma in the … Read more
IPP Beginning: 2016-09-19 End: 2016-09-23 Location: Greifswald Contact: summeruni@ipp.mpg.de Programme The course covers the main aspects of plasma physics with emphasis on nuclear fusion: basics of plasma physics and nuclear fusion kinetic and magneto-hydrodynamic description of a plasma concepts and experimental results of tokamak and stellarator configurations plasma heating and diagnostics plasma-wall interaction and materials … Read more