Fusion News

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

Iter 19 SEP, 2016 In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (PACA)—the administrative territory that spans from the Italian border to the Rhône river valley, and from the Mediterranean shores to the Alpine summits south of Grenoble—the dream of hosting ITER dates back to the mid-1990s. Back in 2001, the local governments around ITER pledged a total … Read more

PPPL By Raphael Rosen | September 9, 2016 Graduate Student Felipe Bedoya Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have successfully tested a new device that will lead to a better understanding of the interactions between ultrahot plasma contained within fusion facilities and the materials inside those facilities. The … Read more

WASET Amsterdam, The Netherlands January 23 – 24, 2017 Conference Aims and Objectives The ICPPF 2017: 19th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Fusion aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Plasma Physics and Fusion. It also provides … Read more

TU/e 14 September 2016 Last week, two TU/e scientists, Federico Felici and Guido Huijsmans, have been named ITER Scientist Fellow. The ITER Scientist Fellows are willing to share and apply their expertise to solve some of ITER’s high priority research needs. ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, … Read more

Euro-fusion.org 14th September 2016 Marconi Fusion hosted at CINECA Marconi-Fusion, the new High Performance Computer (HPC) for fusion applications, was inaugurated at the CINECA headquarters in Bologna on 14 September 2016. The goal of this system will be to provide a common HPC platform for European fusion researchers. In 2015, EUROfusion’s highest decision-making body, the … Read more

PPPL By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe | September 9, 2016 Hanna Schamis, a Science Undergraduate Laboratory intern at PPPL, in front of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) When Hanna Schamis packed her bags for graduate school this summer, she already had two summers of hands-on research under her belt as an intern at the U.S. … Read more

Columbia Engineering APAM senior research scientist and adjunct professor Dr. Steven A. Sabbagh will lead a new joint international grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study high performance tokamak plasma disruption prediction and avoidance in the long-pulse Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) located in Daejeon, South Korea. APAM associate research scientist … Read more