Fusion News

Assystem to deliver on World’s biggest Fusion Energy project

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Scandanavian Oil and Gas Sep 17, 2015 Assystem, an innovation and engineering consultancy secures multi-million Euro contract with Fusion for Energy (F4E) – the EU organisation responsible for Europe’s contribution to ITER. The five-year contract sees Assystem working on the world’s biggest international energy project, currently under construction in the South of France. Assystem, which … Read more

MIT’s Dennis Whyte Wants to Prove Fusion Is the Future

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bostinno Olivia Vanni 09/16/15 Whyte and Sorbom of MIT compare superconductor to monstrous copper conductor. Most of my mornings normally consist of chugging coffee, not chatting about fusion, plasma and superconductors. Then again, most mornings, I don’t have the chance to talk to MIT’s Dennis Whyte, head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department, as … Read more

Is nuclear fusion the best way to support rising energy demands?

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worldfinance.com Steven Cowley, September 16th, 2015 Nuclear fusion could work – but only if we cough up some money This December, world leaders will gather in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where they will attempt – yet again – to hammer out a global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Despite the inevitable … Read more

Fusion Research: Time to Set a New Path

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Issues in science and technology Summer 2015 by Robert L. Hirsch The inherent limitations of the tokamak design for fusion power will prevent it from becoming commercially viable, but the lessons from this effort can inform future research. Burning wood was an important source of energy for early humankind, because it had no competition, no … Read more

Finally, Fusion Takes Small Steps Toward Reality

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MIT Technology review By Richard Martin on September 14, 2015 The focus of research on fusion power has moved from big government programs to startups with novel designs. WHY IT MATTERS If it’s ever harnessed, fusion could provide an essentially limitless source of zero-carbon energy. After three decades of expensive government-funded research that has failed … Read more

The Energy of the Future: The Status of Nuclear Fusion Research and the Role of the IAEA

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IAEA By Aabha Dixit Sept.15, 2015 Participants at the side event on latest advances in research and development in fusion technology. (Photo: J. C. Castillo/IAEA) Scientists are becoming increasingly excited about the prospects that within the foreseeable future a reactor can replicate the sun’s energy source on Earth through scientific and technological innovation of a … Read more

Dennis Whyte named head of Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

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MIT news School of Engineering September 9, 2015 Whyte succeeds Richard Lester as NSE department head. Dennis Whyte Photo: Susan Young Dennis Whyte, professor of nuclear science and engineering and director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, has been named the new head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), effective Sept. … Read more

Tri Alpha Energy takes small step toward huge goal of fusion reactor

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Orange County Register Sept. 8, 2015 By AARON ORLOWSKI Michl Binderbauer, vice president, left, and Toshiki Tajima, chief science officer, show how they say their company has advanced one small step closer to building a machine that would create a near-limitless supply of energy in the same way that the sun does: by fusing the … Read more

‘Renegade’ UK physicists say they’re on fast track to nuclear fusion

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RTCC By Alex Pashley 9 September 2015 Venture capitalists take on establishment with experimental device, but are optimistic time frames damaging race? CEO David Kingham with stage two device of Tokamak’s bid to claim fusion energy. (Credit: AlexPashley) Doughnut-shaped and like a cored apple, could a pint-sized nuclear reactor recreate the sun on Earth? A … Read more