Fusion News

Extreme Tech By Graham Templeton on October 14, 2015 Fusion power has been making a lot of progress lately. That doesn’t necessarily mean any one approach has gotten a whole lot closer to its end goal of useful ignition and net energy production, but that many new, innovative attempts at achieving that same goal have … Read more

MIT Paul Rivenberg | PSFC | October 14, 2015 In the control room, Dr. Bob Mumgaard demonstrates how the plasma in a glow discharge tube responds to magnetic fields. Fusion devices like MIT’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak use magnets to keep hot plasma contained and away from the walls of the device. Paul Rivenberg On the … Read more

Punjab News Express October 14, 2015 PATIALA : The Department of Atomic Energy has handpicked a Thapar University scientist to work on a prestigious nuclear fusion programme in collaboration with experts from the department’s Institute of Plasma Research. Dr Rana Pratap Yadav of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, has been … Read more

Oxfordvirtual.com OCTOBER 11, 2015BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY X MARKS THE SPOT: RESEARCHERS CONFIRM NOVEL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLASMA ROTATION TO IMPROVE FUSION PERFORMANCE (PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS) Representative plasma geometries, with the X-point location circled in red. (Reprinted from T. Stoltzfus-Dueck et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 245001, 2015. Copyright 2015 by the American Physical Society.) By … Read more

CNN By Thom Patterson Wed October 7, 2015 (Video is included in the CNN post, click the link to watch it) Hey 21st century, where’s that nuclear fusion power reactor you promised? Tens of billions of dollars have been spent in the past 60 years, entire careers have been invested, but the ability to produce … Read more

UK news Yahoo Fri, Oct 2, 2015 Press Association – The nuclear energy industry should embrace fusion reactors, it has been suggested Fusion reactors could become an economically viable way of generating electricity within decades and replace traditional nuclear power or fossil fuels, scientists have said. Advances in superconductor technology have led researchers from Durham … Read more

Elsevier We are pleased to announce the winners of the FED Student Award at ISFNT, which was recently held at the 12th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology in Jeju Island, South Korea. Sponsored by Elsevier, the award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the field of Fusion Nuclear Technology, presented at the conference by a Masters … Read more

Agora Magazine Sept. 30 Rome – The first superconducting magnet for the JT-60SA experimental nuclear fusion reactor under construction in Japan was presented in Genoa on Tuesday by ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, and ASG Superconductors, a superconducting magnet manufacturing company. The Tokamak, a plant that will … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald September 25, 2015 Staffers who worked on the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), world-leading fusion research resumes later this fall. After more than six years of planning and construction — including three years of building and 574,000 hours of labor … Read more

Fortune SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 The “ignition facility” at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Photo: Damien Jemison—LLNL The energy source has been long on promise and short on reality. Now private companies think they can succeed where the government has failed. For more than half a century governments around the world have been trying to solve the … Read more