ST40 achieves 15-million-degree target

ST40 achieves 15-million-degree target

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

Seeing all the colors of the plasma wind

Seeing all the colors of the plasma wind

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

Scientists From Around the World Come to New Jersey to Discuss How to Control Plasma-Surface Interactions for Fusion

Scientists From Around the World Come to New Jersey to Discuss How to Control Plasma-Surface Interactions for Fusion

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

Advanced tokamak investigations in full-tungsten ASDEX Upgrade

Advanced tokamak investigations in full-tungsten ASDEX Upgrade

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

Stellarator’s plasma results show a triumph of engineering and modeling

Stellarator’s plasma results show a triumph of engineering and modeling

ARS Technica Chris Lee – 5/23/2018 A possible route to fusion makes a very impressive start. The plasma vessel has a shape that mimics that of the magnetic field. Many moons ago, Ars was introduced to the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (W7-X), an experimental fusion concept. At the time, W7-X—the world’s largest stellarator—had just completed some … Read more

Postdoctoral Researcher (fixed term) in the area of edge-plasma physics in magnetic fusion energy devices

Postdoctoral Researcher (fixed term) in the area of edge-plasma physics in magnetic fusion energy devices

Duunitori Aalto-yliopisto Työpaikkakuvaus Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with nearly 11 000 students and nearly 400 professors. The campus of the School of Science … Read more

Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you confine a sun to a box?

Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you confine a sun to a box?

Oxford 18th May 2018 by Jack Haley Nuclear fusion – energy of the future? Modern nuclear power plants produce power from the energy produced during nuclear fission, where heavy and unstable atoms are split open. Typically, a neutron will react with an atom of Uranium-235 to produce two smaller atoms, for example Rubidium and Caesium, … Read more

Faster nuclear fusion work

Faster nuclear fusion work

Engineerlive.com 22nd May 2018 Case study showing how advanced technology is speeding up MRO at the world’s largest nuclear fusion facility As the world’s largest nuclear fusion power experiment, the JET (Joint European Torus) nuclear fusion tokamak is designed to harness energy with the intention of furthering the development of fusion power generation. Fusion is … Read more