Fusion News

NEI Decades-long, multibillion dollar funding for research needed Support for existing nuclear plants also key to keeping clean air benefits Industry supports nuclear research and development funding for large and small modular reactors Nov. 17, 2016—A long-term commitment to research is needed if nuclear energy is to remain a part of the energy mix, according … Read more

ILMM 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 In 2014 Lockheed Martin, an American Aerospace and Defence company, announced within the next 10 years it would develop a portable nuclear fusion reactor which would produce 100 MW of energy. This fusion reactor would be small enough to fit on the backs of trucks and a single unit could provide … Read more

PPPL By Raphael Rosen | October 27, 2016 PPPL physicist Amitava Bhattacharjee (Photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications) A proposal from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been chosen as part of a national initiative to develop the next generation of supercomputers. Known as the Exascale … Read more

Phys.org November 16, 2016 Time traces of key plasma parameters for steady state H-mode operation over 60 seconds in EAST. Credit: EAST team Celebrating the 10th anniversary of physics operations, the 11th EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) campaign reached a milestone in the exploration of advanced operation scenarios—achieving over 60s fully non-inductive/steady-state long-pulse H-mode plasmas … Read more

PPPL By Raphael Rosen | November 11, 2016 Physicists from around the world gathered at the University of California, Irvine this past summer for a symposium in honor of Wei-li Lee, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The week-long event, held from July 18-22, focused on … Read more

Iranian Diplomacy 12 November 2016 Iran’s membership in ITER means that the nuclear club has endorsed Iran’s nuclear capabilities to be at global scales, and the country and accepted the country as an equal partner, writes university professor Azam Mollaei in an article for Iranian Diplomacy. Recent months have seen discussions on whether the nuclear … Read more

news.com.au NOVEMBER 13, 2016 IT’S known as the Z Machine and the only thing more impressive than the way it looks is how it works — and it might just hold the key to revolutionising the world’s energy sources. The massive machine tucked away in a facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico is designed to essentially … Read more

Science Daily October 28, 2016 Helically twisted plasma glows during the first hydrogen operation in W7-X on Feb. 3, 2016. Credit: Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics This past year saw the commissioning and initial operation of a new large-scale plasma experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Greifswald, Germany. Designed, constructed, and operated by the Max-Planck … Read more

Phys Org November 9, 2016 Sandia National Laboratories principal investigator Dean Rovang checks out the Z Machine’s tritium gas transfer system, which was built at the labs’ Livermore, California, site and filled with trace tritium (0.1 percent) at Sandia in Albuquerque. Credit: Randy Montoya Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z Machine have opened a new … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald | November 9, 2016 Physicist Richard Hawryluk (Photo by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications) Richard Hawryluk, a distinguished physicist who heads the ITER and Tokamaks department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has been named chair of the board of editors of Nuclear Fusion (link is external), … Read more