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The Discerning Physicist January 17, 2016 Nuclear fusion, the power source of the stars, seems like the perfect solution to all of our energy problems. It has an abundant fuel, produces no greenhouse gases and has an efficiency four million times greater than that of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, problems arise when we are faced … Read more
UCI News Clean-energy champion also co-founded Tri Alpha Energy November 2015 Time magazine quotes from Dr. Rostoker Irvine, Calif., Jan. 6, 2015 – UC Irvine professor Norman Rostoker, the father of breakthrough clean nuclear fusion energy techniques via plasma-based accelerators, died on Christmas Day in Irvine, Calif. He was 89. Rostoker cared deeply about using … Read more
Inspire52 Rey Vergara Jan. 13, 2016 The world is adversely changing, and it seems like the future of our children are bleak at best. Humans have abused Mother Nature to the point that it has endangered our possibility of a better tomorrow. Climate change has been accelerated due to man’s non-stop usage of fossil fuels … Read more
Kharkiv Times Jan. 15, 2016 anvalo.blogspot.com In Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Greifswald, Germany) in December helium plasma was heated to a temperature of a million degrees Celsius. This was reported in V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (KNU), the graduates of which participated in the research. The process took place in one of the … Read more
MIT News Paul Rivenberg | Plasma Science and Fusion Center | November 30, 2015 Posted Jan. 16, 2016 Josh Stillerman (left) and Bob Mumgaard help guide conference attendee Deedee Ortiz through virtual rooms of a 3-D tokamak fusion device. Photo: Paul Rivenberg/PSFC Members of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center wow colleagues, students, and teachers … Read more
UC San Diego – Jacobs School of Engineering Visualization of energy flow in fast ignition experiments is made possible by the use of copper tracers and a high-tech X-ray imaging system. Image credit: High Energy Density Physics Group, UC San Diego. San Diego, Calif., January 14, 2016 — An international team of researchers has taken … Read more
euro plasma December 10th 2015 “After this discussion, it seems, we understand plasma better and we are closer to the technological applications of it” – summarised Andrzej Gałkowski, Director of the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM) at the closing ceremony of the International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas. The conference … Read more
NERSC JANUARY 4, 2016 Contact: Kathy Kincade, kkincade@lbl.gov, 510-495-2124 A cross-section of the virtual plasma showing where the magnetic field lines intersect the plane. The central section has field lines that rotate exactly once. Image: Stephen Jardin A cross-section of the virtual plasma showing where the magnetic field lines intersect the plane. The central section … Read more
The Irish Times William Reville Jan 7, 2016 Serious progress is being made with nuclear fusion, which has huge potential for generating clean energy A nuclear fusion research centre at the Max-Planck-Institut for Plasma Physics in Germany. Photograph: Stefan Sauer/EPA Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy generation. Elaborate state-sponsored efforts since 1957 to … Read more
Report to Congress December 2015 Message from the Acting Director, Office of Science This report outlines a scientifically rich and impactful course for U.S. fusion energy research under the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program of the Department of Energy over the next 10 years. The overall mission of the FES program is to expand the fundamental … Read more