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SBS 6 DEC 2015 Open in a full-sized window As conventional clean power options such as wind and solar energy take focus at climate discussions in Paris, scientists around the world continue to work on a more ambitious solution to lowering emissions from energy production – nuclear fusion. For three decades, scientists from a coalition … Read more
Nanalyze December 4, 2015 At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change being held in Paris at the moment, nuclear fusion is being talked about as the ‘Holy Grail’ of clean energy technology. So what is nuclear fusion? Isn’t that what nuclear reactors are all about? Well, not quite. The nuclear reactors we use today … Read more
By Katherine Tweed, 3 Dec 2015 Photo: University of California Bill Gates will lead a coalition of billionaires and institutional investors to quicken the pace of private sector investment in clean energy. Gates commitment to clean energy preceded the COP21 climate change conference in Paris with the announcement of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Bill Gates … Read more
International Business Times Maria Gallucci, December 03 2015 Osamu Motojima, the general director of the nuclear fusion project ITER from July 2010 to March 2015, poses with a poster about the project in Cadarache, France, July 28, 2010. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images On a sprawling campus in southern France, a revolutionary kind of power plant is … Read more
jobbank Frist 24. januar 2016 DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a postdoc position in the section Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy (PPFE). The PPFE section leads the Danish participation in the European fusion research activities. We operate and exploit a sophisticated diagnostic at the ASDEX Upgrade experiment. We develop … Read more
ZME Science Dec. 2, 2015 Wendelstein 7-X in June 2015: Commissioning is still under way. Photo: IPP, Tino Schulz The 425 tonne installation took 1.1 million construction hours spread over nine years, but it’s definitely worth it; one by one, all the individual systems have been tested and passed with flying colors – so it’s … Read more
Fusion for Energy 02 December 2015 340 degrees (nine sectors) of the JT-60SA vacuum vessel assembled and ready for TF coils installation Congratulations to the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the Japanese Implementing Agency for Broader Approach activities and F4E partner in the JT-60SA project, for having completed the on-site assembly of nine sectors of … Read more
The Bubble JIM HOOVER Dec 1, 2015 The fusion of the hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, is currently the most efficient reaction we can utilise for nuclear energy sources. Humans worldwide depend on just three fossil fuels for over 80% of their energy needs: coal, oil, and natural gas. Whether eaten, worn, lived in, driven … Read more
Discover Magazine By Tim Folger | January 26, 2011 | Republished here Nov. 30, 2015 It is the energy source that could change the world. It has eluded every effort to master it. But Glen Wurden thinks he knows how to tame the heart of the sun. The Shiva Star facility, located at the Kirtland … Read more
IPP November 30, 2015 Next week: start with helium plasma planned / hydrogen plasmas are to follow in 2016 With the generation of the first plasma the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is scheduled to go into operation on time in December 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald/Germany. The experiments … Read more