Fusion News

ITER 22 JAN, 2018 After a comprehensive re-design of the tokamak cooling water system, manufacturing can now begin for components that, according to construction sequencing requirements, need to be installed before the machine’s First Plasma. At your home, water is delivered to the tap at a flow rate of 0.1 m³/ second, a velocity of … Read more

University of Saskatchewan SARATH PEIRIS Jan 17, 2018 With Canada’s only tokamak fusion reactor, the University of Saskatchewan has long been on the front lines of nuclear fusion experimentation. Akira Hirose (front left) and Prof. Chijin Xiao (front right) with students, and tokamak in the background. Fusion is what powers the sun, where massive gravitational … Read more

Engineering 360 S. Himmelstein | 19 January 2018 Cross-section of the KSTAR tokamak showing select hardware components of the vertical control system: new magnetic flux loops (magenta circles) used to infer the vertical position of the plasma and vertical magnetic field coils (red squares) that control the position. A new algorithm sustained a stable plasma … Read more

Prepare for Change January 18, 2018 by John Hawthorne There always has been and always will be an energy race. No matter the decade, millennium, or generation, humans have always found themselves in search of the next big thing to power their lives. In antiquity, the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Asians managed to build … Read more

CCFE 18/01/2018 More than 80 delegates representing key stakeholders across the UK nuclear sector have heard details of potential multi-million-pound contracts coming from ITER that they can target as part of the Government’s recent £86 million investment in Culham. John Devine, head of exports and investment on the civil nuclear team at the Department for … Read more

Eurofusion January 16th 2018 Helion Energy Fusion research benefits from its variety of labs and approaches. Not all of the ideas and concepts belong to EUROfusion or publicly funded research. Private companies, even far beyond European borders, are also trying to bring fusion energy to life. In this series, Fusion in Europe introduces different approaches … Read more

Eurofusion January 16th 2018 Participants in the WP JET3 Annual General Monitoring Meeting in Culham on December 4-7, 2017. Picture: Copyright protected by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) Scientists at the Joint European Torus (JET) have been working feverishly to prepare experiments which allow the improved measurements of neutrons for the planned tritium (T) … Read more

LPPFusion Eric J. Lerner | Jan 14 2018 Thanks to 233 far-sighted investors we have now raised $503,000, over half way to the one million dollars we need to quicken our research for safe, clean, cheap and unlimited energy! This half-way mark was achieved Jan 12, just two months and 3 days into our Wefunder … Read more

TheFutureEconomy.ca One of the Big Challenges of the Future Economy: The density of manufactured energy Christofer Mowry CEO & Director General Fusion Christofer Mowry has 30 years of global experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, including power, oil & gas, automation, and process industries. He was most recently CEO and Chairman of General Synfuels … Read more

Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis Atul Pant | January 10, 2018 Power generation through fusion reaction has been one of the most attractive fields of nuclear research and has consequently seen considerable investment since the middle of the last century. While the world has been awaiting a breakthrough in an affordable and clean power … Read more