the Guardian Are scientific and industrial ideas about commercial nuclear fusion reactors in the near future just wishful thinking? Download the podcast At Iter in the south of France, seven international partners have pooled their financial and scientific resources to build the biggest fusion reactor in history. Their aim is to resolve critical scientific and … Read more
newenergyandfuel.com January 27, 2015 Jaeyoung Park, Chief Scientist at EMC2 presented the team’s work to date and explored the level of what’s needed to continue research to a net power electrostatic nuclear fusion reactor. EMC2 WB-8 Lab in San Diego. Image Credit Jseyoung Park, University of Wisconsin. The presentation was given at the 16th U.S. … Read more
The Guardian by Alok Jha Jan. 25, 2015 The construction site at Saint-Paul-lez-Durance: when the reactor building is complete, it will rise some 60 metres into the air and reach 10 metres below the ground. The countryside of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in Provence is a serene terrain of thickly wooded hills. On chilly January mornings, the air … Read more
world-nuclear-news.org The first of some 250 “exceptional loads” has been delivered to the construction site of the Iter fusion reactor project at Cadarache in southern France. The high-voltage transformer was manufactured in South Korea. The transformer begins its voyage by barge from Fos-sur-Mer across the Gulf of Fos, through the Canal de Caronte, and finally … Read more
Huffington Post by Dino Grandoni 01/20/2015 A researcher examines the National Spherical Torus Experiment. PLAINSBORO, N.J. — Hidden in the woods two miles from Princeton University’s main campus sits a drab white building easily mistakable for a warehouse. Inside is one of the Ivy League school’s most expensive experiments: a 22-foot-tall metal spheroid surrounded by … Read more
Crosscut.com By John Stang The local firm says it will soon be able to harness the same mechanism that powers the sun to bring Washington a cleaner energy future. The glass ampule of water is the length of your little finger, only narrower. HELION’S “GRANDE” FUSION DEVICE. Photo: Helion Energy That single gram of deuterium-laced … Read more
alternative-energies.net Bombarding the hydrogen pellet with 192 lasers Humanity tries since a few decades already, to harness the power of the Sun through nuclear fusion because this resource is clean, safe and unlimited. Scientists at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab announced that for the first time they made a significant breakthrough in this matter. They … Read more
MIT News January 16, 2015 Peter Dunn, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
physicsworld.com Constraining budgets: The ITER site A new report that seeks to map out US priorities in fusion research over the next 10 years has received scathing reviews from American fusion researchers. The report was commissioned by the US Department of Energy (DOE), which asked its Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) to come up … Read more
triplepundit.com Michael Kourabas | Thursday November 13th, 2014 Nuclear fusion’s tenuous future as a reliable energy source is perhaps best illustrated by the history of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. The project is under construction (here the round shape of the future Tokamak is now apparent in June 2013) and should be turned … Read more