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Science News Jan. 29, 2016 by Alan Boyle Magazine issue: Vol. 189, No. 3, February 6, 2016, p. 18 Startups bring a new attitude to the energy quest — will it be enough? RENEGADE FUSION Private-sector startups, like General Fusion, are betting they can develop an energy source for the future faster than government-funded projects. … Read more
LANL Glen Wurden in the stellarator’s vacuum vessel during camera installation in 2014. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 27, 2015—Since the world’s largest superconducting magnetic fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, went online in December, innovative new imaging systems designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory are helping physicists peer into the roiling world of superhot plasmas … Read more
The Nation John Draper, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa January 28, 2016 A ‘clean’ alternative to fossil fuels and atomic fission could be less than a decade away According to the Thai Ministry of Energy’s Integrated Blueprint, up to 5 per cent of the country’s energy requirements will be met by nuclear power by 2036. Nuclear power has … Read more
EUROfusion Plasma Ball. (Image: EUROfusion) Aspiring plasma physicists and future fusion researchers could start their training from their living rooms. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), a EUROfusion consortium member, has kicked off the latest MOOC edition on plasma physics and its applications. The course which is set to run for nine … Read more
America led worldwide fusion energy records through TFTR decommissioning in 1997 PPPL By John Greenwald, December 9, 2013 Republished here Jan. 26, 2016 PPPL staffers monitor a closed-circuit screen during the historic 1993 experiment. Tensions rose in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as the seconds counted down. At stake … Read more
Sandia Labs Jan. 5, 2016 Thor could bring high-yield fusion in a small package Sophisticated features may influence eventual Z-machine rebuild ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerator, in generating pressures … Read more
PPPL The Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program at PPPL is for undergraduates interested in performing plasma physics and fusion energy research. Students perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting PPPL’s research. Applications for the SULI program are solicited annually for three separate internship terms. Internship appointments are … Read more
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 21/01/2016 by Susanne Dambeck On the one hand, there is the promise of limitless energy supply, emission-free and without the long-term radiation problems of nuclear fission. The idea behind it is simple: In the Sun, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms are continuously fused into helium nuclei. This process releases enormous amounts … Read more
Washington Post George Will | Originally published December 20, 2013 PRINCETON, N.J. In a scientific complex on 88 bucolic acres near here, some astonishingly talented people are advancing a decades-long project to create a sun on Earth. When — not if; when — decades hence they and collaborators around the world succeed, their achievement will … Read more
Argonne National Laboratory Katie Jones January 19, 2016 Developed from simulations on the Mira supercomputer at ALCF, this image shows trapped (left cross-section) and passing (right cross-section) electrons carried in the bootstrap current of a tokamak, which is in contrast to the previous understanding that the bootstrap current is carried by passing particles only. Based … Read more