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Eurofusion.org This picture is a blend of computerised imagery and photography. The European Commission had established a panel of independent high-level experts to evaluate the Euratom research programme which comprises fission and fusion research. The findings, which were recently published, are more than a pat on the back for Europe’s fusion research activities, especially with … Read more

The Wire RONAK GUPTA, 15/02/2016 The Wendelstein 7-X device. Credit: Wikimedia Commons While the realisation of nuclear fusion power is often raked up as a fitting example of a sunk cost fallacy, the amount of work going into realising it someday is as necessary as it is intensive. When the first explosion by a nuclear … Read more

IPP Wendelstein 7-X at the Greifswald branch of IPP is a large stellarator with modular superconducting coils which enable steady state plasma operation in order to explore the reactor relevance of this concept. The main assembly of Wendelstein 7-X was concluded in 2014. Once all technical systems had been checked step by step the first … Read more

PPPL February 2, 2016 (Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL Office of Communications) Stewart Prager Q: What is fusion and how can it produce energy? A: Fusion is the energy source of our sun and the stars. In a fusion reaction, two atomic nuclei fuse and produce very fast-moving particles. Billions of such reactions occurring in … Read more

South China Morning Post Stephen Chen Feb.5, 2016 Chinese scientists were able to heat plasma to three times the temperature of the core of our sun for a record-breaking 102 seconds as they progressed the search to derive energy from nuclear fusion. Photo: Wikipedia In a doughnut-shaped chamber in eastern China, scientists have been able … Read more

Chinese Academy of Sciences Feb 05, 2016 A team of Chinese scientists in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province, has made an unprecedented breakthrough on an energy generation device that will make it one step closer to transform energy into stable, sustainable and controllable resources. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device, … Read more

CBC By Bob McDonald, Feb 05, 2016 The ITER fusion test reactor under construction in France. German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the startup button on a new fusion reactor this week, raising hopes that truly clean energy may finally be only a decade or so away. It’s a promise that’s been ’10 years away’ for … Read more

PPPL by Jeanne Jackson DeVoe, February 5, 2016 The largest and most advanced fusion experiment of its kind in the world launched this week, and it is already producing results. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicists collaborating on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany, were on hand Feb. 3 when … Read more

Daily Mail By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD, Feb 6th 2016 Test was conducted on a magnetic fusion reactor known as EAST Chinese team were able to maintain 50 million°C for 102 seconds The breakthrough that could someday make fusion power a reality Last week Germany used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 … Read more

PressTV Feb 6, 2016 The Chinese nuclear reactor, known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), located in eastern China, features a hollow metal chamber in the shape of a doughnut, in which seaming hydrogen atoms turn into plasma. Strong magnetic fields are used to keep the plasma away from the walls. Chinese scientists have … Read more