Fusion energy and the UK’s industrial strategy

Fusion energy and the UK’s industrial strategy

WNN 18 April 2017 Tokamak Energy has highlighted the contribution fusion energy can make to the UK’s new industrial strategy and how government policy can support its rapid development and large-scale commercial deployment. In an ‘open letter’ sent to World Nuclear News, Tokamak Energy’s chief executive, David Kingham, outlined his response to the government’s Building … Read more

Chinese, Australian universities signs MoU on fusion energy researches

Chinese, Australian universities signs MoU on fusion energy researches

Xinhua 2017-04-12 Representatives of the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of South China (USC) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research collaboration on fusion energy technology on ANU campus in Canberra, Australia, April 12, 2017. As the first project under the MoU, the ANU has agreed to provide the USC with its … Read more

Computer simulations of DIII-D experiments shed light on mysterious plasma flows

Computer simulations of DIII-D experiments shed light on mysterious plasma flows

PPPL April 5, 2017 Simulation of plasma turbulence generating positive (red) and negative (blue) residual stress that drives rotation shear. (inset) Comparison between measured and simulated rotation profile. Image courtesy of W.X. Wang. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics have simulated a mysterious self-organized flow … Read more

Brexit brings nuclear (con)fusion

Brexit brings nuclear (con)fusion

Politico By SARA STEFANINI 3/29/17 The €13 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is under construction in France | ITER CULHAM, England — Just as European scientists here gear up to put decades of experiments to the test and try to bottle up the nuclear reaction that powers every star in the universe, Brexit is … Read more

A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price

A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price

New York Times HENRY FOUNTAINMARCH 27, 2017 Source: ITER Organization Mika Gröndahl/The New York Times SAINT-PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France — At a dusty construction site here amid the limestone ridges of Provence, workers scurry around immense slabs of concrete arranged in a ring like a modern-day Stonehenge. It looks like the beginnings of a large commercial power … Read more