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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
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
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
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
Next Big Future May 23, 2018 This is information from an interview with Christofer Mowry, CEO of General Fusion. The highlights are that General Fusion is rapidly pushing ahead to achieve commercialization and the next step is to make a 70% scale pilot plant that will prove out the viability of generating electricity from General … Read more
PPPL May 16, 2018 Steven Cowley (Photo courtesy of Steven Cowley) By Office of Communications, Princeton University PRINCETON, New Jersey — Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, has been named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), effective July 1. Cowley has served as … Read more
Phys.org May 11, 2018 by Raphael Rosen From left PPPL physicists Ken Hill, Luis Delgado-Aparicio, and Brentley Stratton. Credit: Elle Starkman A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has won a DOE Office of Science award to develop new X-ray diagnostics for WEST—the Tungsten (W) Environment … Read more
Fusion Group May 11, 2018 by Xavier Sáez The Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) Facility will be built in Frascati, Rome, Italy, as has been announced by Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). It will be part of the International Center of Excellence for nuclear fusion research and will have … Read more
General Atomics Even in the extremely complex world of plasma physics, it turns out there’s an app for that. San Diego-based General Atomics (GA) is making its first foray into mobile application development, deploying a new app to help physicists work out the characteristics of plasmas on the fly. Called Plasmatica, it takes up to … Read more
Phys.org May 3, 2018, US Department of Energy A simulation shows (a) a disruptive instability in the DIII-D tokamak, a cross-section (b) of orbits of trapped energetic ions (black) interacting with the magnetic instability (colors), and the dependence of the critical stability threshold (c) in the ratio of thermal to magnetic energy, βc, as a … Read more