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ARS Technica Artistically shaped magnets may make stellarators easier to manage than ITER. Design of the W7-X from the outside. Having many ports means the scientists can make a lot of different measurements at the same time. The arrangement of magnets required to create a well-confined plasma. The shape of the magnetic field. Fusion powers … Read more
Canberra Times May 9 2017 ANU has handed over the keys to its $35 million nuclear fusion stellarator as part of a technology exchange with China aimed at creating a new viable base-load power source by 2050. Many nations, scrambling to find a solution to the energy crisis, view nuclear fusion as a sustainable solution. … Read more
Adjacent Open Access 05/06/17 By Dr. Neil Alexander Neil Alexander for the Canadian Nuclear Association shares why society should be looking to fusion energy to power homes and businesses in the future Modern society loves energy but delivering that energy is becoming a problem Modern society loves energy. Whether it is lighting our offices, heating … Read more
New Scientist 31 May 2017 By Andy Coghlan THIS may resemble a distillery, but what it will generate isn’t for drinking. It will serve up streams of atoms and ions to make the energy of the sun right here on Earth through nuclear fusion. Called SPIDER and due for completion next year, this facility in … Read more
ITER Newsline 15 May, 2017 Both Xavier Litaudon, head of the EUROfusion ITER physics department, and Lorne Horton, JET exploitation manager, are confident that the upcoming operations ”will save significant time on the way to ITER’s deuterium-tritium operation.” What’s happening at JET these days? We have been in shutdown since November last year and will … Read more
Universe Today 27 May , 2017 by Fraser Cain I’d like to think we’re smarter than the Sun. Let’s compare and contrast. Humans, on the one hand, have made enormous advances in science and technology, built cities, cars, computers, and phones. We have split the atom for war and for energy. What has the Sun … Read more
R&D Mag 05/22/2017 Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high-confinement mode (H-mode) that sustains fusion reactions. Credit: Elle Starkman Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) … Read more
MIT May 22, 2017 Newly-appointed Assistant Professor Zach Hartwig’s mission is to use nuclear technology to benefit society and the environment. Assistant Professor Zach Hartwig joined the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering faculty this year after almost a decade of doctoral and postdoc work at MIT. Photo: Lillie Paquette/MIT School of Engineering Making nuclear … Read more
WNN 22 May 2017 The first of 18 toroidal field coils has been made in Europe. Gigantic superconducting magnets, they will generate the magnetic cage to contain the Iter fusion reactor’s plasma. The toroidal field coil magnet – “the most high tech magnet in history”, according to F4E (Image: F4E) The toroidal field coil is … Read more
Science Blog May 21, 2017 Lithium compounds improve plasma performance in fusion devices just as well as pure lithium does, a team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has found. The research was conducted by former Princeton University physics graduate student Matt Lucia under the guidance of … Read more