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PPPL June 12, 2018 Steven Cowley in front of the Lyman Spitzer Building at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Steven Cowley, newly named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) effective July 1, has received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth “for services to science and the development of nuclear … Read more
IOP My future goal is to do whatever I can to get electricity on the grid by fusion power. Coming from a long-line of engineers my family were surprised that I desperately wanted to work in physics. After completing a degree in Engineering Physics I started my career at the University of Oxford as a … Read more
Oxford University 8 Jun 2018 The pioneering work of members of the University has been recognised in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Professor Angela Ruth McLean, FRS, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford, is appointed DBE for services to mathematical biology and to scientific advice for government. She said: “I am delighted … Read more
PPPL June 6, 2018 KSTAR physicist Jae-Min Kwon, left, and PPPL physicist C.S. Chang. (Photos by National Fusion Research Institute, left, and Elle Starkman.) Magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in fusion plasmas, can grow and disrupt the plasmas and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that house fusion reactions. Recent research at the U.S. Department … Read more
City AM 6 June 2018 The tokamak device is how Tokamak Energy heats plasma for nuclear fusion (Source: Tokamak Energy) A small UK company which is aiming to revolutionise power generation through cracking nuclear fusion has today come one step closer. Oxford-based Tokamak Energy, which is backed by hedge fund Winton Group, has managed to … Read more
WNN 06 June 2018 Tokamak Energy announced today that it has achieved plasma temperatures of over 15 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the centre of the Sun. The Oxford, England-based company turned on its ST40 reactor for the first time in April 2017. The reactor aims to produce a record-breaking plasma temperature for a privately-funded … Read more
Phys.org June 4, 2018 Helical plasma flow in the core of a tokamak in a nonlinear simulation. Red depicts positive values and blue depicts negative values of the poloidal velocity stream function. The black arrows illustrate the direction of the plasma flow within a toroidal cross section. (Figure shows a quarter of the torus.) Credit: … Read more
Phys.org June 4, 2018, US Department of Energy Credit: US Department of Energy When it comes to plasma winds in a tokamak, researchers are always looking for the Goldilocks solution—one that is just right. Winds that are too high or too low can reduce plasma efficiency. Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Center are using … Read more
PPPL By Larry Bernard | June 4, 2018 Physicists Rajesh Maingi, left, and Charles Skinner. PRINCETON, New Jersey (June 6, 2018) – The 23rd International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices – the preeminent biennial research conference in this field – begins on June 17 and continues for six days. More than … Read more
AIP Physics of Plasmas Physics of Plasmas 25, 056115 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024320 A. Bocka, H. Doerk, R. Fischer, D. Rittich, J. Stober, A. Burckhart, E. Fable, B. Geiger, A. Mlynek, M. Reich, H. Zohm, and ASDEX Upgrade Team Abstract The appropriate tailoring of the q-profile is the key to accessing Advanced Tokamak (AT) scenarios, which are … Read more