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Reuters Oct 6, 2016 * Construction of experimental reactor well under way * New ITER chief estimates total cost at 18 billion euros * Costs hard to estimate as partners contribute in kind By Geert De Clercq CADARACHE, France, Oct 6 Construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor in southern France is in full swing … Read more
Government of Canada Question:How do we make best use of our science and research strengths? Answer submitted by Tim Howard on 09/30/2016 Members of the Canadian fusion community representing universities, industry and research support organizations from five provinces are proposing a revitalized Canadian fusion program with the vision that: by 2030, Canada will support the … Read more
nature.com Jeff Tollefson | 30 September 2016 Design flaw may have doomed machine at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. The experimental fusion reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is shaped like a cored apple. A tough year just got tougher for US fusion researchers. The country’s flagship experimental fusion reactor has broken down, less than … Read more
Yahoo Tech Lulu Chang | October 1, 2016 Our nation’s “flagship experimental fusion reactor” is no longer working — a problem made all the more frustrating by the fact that scientists just completed a four-year, $94 million upgrade on the machine. It’s not that often that we hear about major breakthroughs in nuclear research, and … Read more
IAEA by Aabha Dixit | Sept. 15, 2016 Participants at the side event on latest advances in research and development in fusion technology. (Photo: J. C. Castillo/IAEA) Scientists are becoming increasingly excited about the prospects that within the foreseeable future a reactor can replicate the sun’s energy source on Earth through scientific and technological innovation … Read more
PPPL By Larry Bernard | September 26, 2016 Stewart Prager PRINCETON, New Jersey (Sept. 26, 2016) – Prof. Stewart Prager, a world renowned plasma physicist and passionate voice for a future of clean, abundant and benign energy fueled by fusion, has stepped down today from directorship of the national laboratory he has headed for the … Read more
Science By Adrian Cho | Sep. 27, 2016 Stewart Prager Stewart Prager has stepped down as director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey, the lab announced in a statement yesterday. Prager’s departure comes in the aftermath of a malfunction that has knocked the lab’s main facility out of action—for perhaps as … Read more
Magnus SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 The world of the atom carries many names. Some of them are famous, like Rutherford, Bohr or Fermi, but there were many others, both before (such as Pierre and Marie Curie) and after (such as Otto Hahn or Lise Meitner). In fact, it was Lise’s nephew – Otto Frisch – that … Read more
Bwog BETSY LADYZHETS | September 24, 2016 Construction of the tokamak (that might kill us all!) In some very specific conditions, electrons (you know, those tiny negatively charged subatomic particles) can run away. But how does this happen? Where do they go? Are they dangerous? We sent Senior Staffer Betsy Ladyzhets to the Plasma Physics … Read more
Kongres Sep 21, 2016 The 29th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) The 29th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) took place from September 5th till 9th, 2016 in Prague. The event was jointly organized by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Research Centre Rez, two principal institutes engaged in … Read more