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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
PPPL By John Greenwald | September 20, 2016 Graduate student Sébastien Philippe who led the zero-knowledge protocol experiment. Setup of the experiment in a PPPL laboratory (credit: Elle Starkman) A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S. Department of Energy’s … Read more
Market Wired September 20, 2016 List Recognizes General Fusion’s Chief Scientist as a Leader in Canadian Clean Technology TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – September 20, 2016) – The founder and Chief Scientist of Vancouver-based General Fusion, Dr. Michel Laberge, was named today as one of Canada’s Clean50 for 2017. The Clean50 award recognizes Canada’s leaders in sustainability … Read more
Next Big Future September 19, 2016 The Department of Energy awarded a $1.05 million grant to the University’s nuclear fusion device, the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications, or HIDRA. This grant, the first one for the machine, will allow researchers at the University’s Center for Plasma Material Interactions to conduct experiments with the … Read more