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districtenergy.org October 5, 2016 Future Power Magazine (Net Resources International [NRI]) reports on the latest progress in nuclear fusion. The report notes that fusion power is the ultimate carbon-free energy source, but getting net energy out of the process is not yet practically viable. It currently takes more energy to initiate and contain a fusion … Read more
sciencemag.com Richard Stone | 09 Sep 2016 A fusion research program nurtured in isolation could blossom as Iran joins the ITER megaproject. Islamic Azad University’s Chinese-made tokamak could see action as an ITER test bed. PHOTO: FARHAD BABAEI The Damavand tokamak is an unlikely emblem of hope for Iranian science. Named after Iran’s tallest mountain, … Read more
Business Korea Cho Jin-young | 9 September 2016 South Korea’s superconducting nuclear fusion simulator KSTAR. A team of Korean researchers found a new principle that can control an edge localized mode (ELM) The National Fusion Research Institute announced on September 8 that they found out that a turbulent flow in a magnetic field of a … Read more
Engineering.com Meghan Brown | September 06, 2016 These 2016 GA undergraduate interns in fusion science and plasma physics continued a program so successful it has generated second- and third-generation scientists. Pictured here at DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. (Image courtesy of General Atomics) The start of the school year also means the end … Read more
University of Rochester September 6, 2016 bank of lighted laser amplifiersThe OMEGA laser’s 20-cm disk amplifiers at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. (Photo by Adam Fenster/University of Rochester) Scientists at the University of Rochester have taken a significant step forward in laser fusion research. Experiments using the OMEGA laser at the University’s … Read more
Institution of Mechanical Engineers 05 Sep 2016 Engineers develop cables able to handle the high currents from nuclear fusion power plants This article has been temporaly removed pending verification and correction from the original source of: “Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
ITER News 05 SEP, 2016 – Sabina Griffith The 29th edition of the Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) today opened its curtains in the Czech capital of Prague. With 30 exhibitors and more than 800 scheduled posters and presentations, SOFT once more proves to be one of the major platforms for exchanging the latest developments … Read more
Futurism.com Jasmine Solana | August 30, 2016 One of the biggest challenges in the fusion energy development is finding the best shape for the device to contain the plasma, but physicists in the United States believe they may have found a new kind of nuclear fusion device that could be the most commercially viable design … Read more
PPPL By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe | September 2, 2016 (Photo by Chris Cane/PPPL Office of Communications) Max Wallace, a Community College intern from Laney College in Oakland, California, shows fellow intern Priya Jaglal a poster on his research during a student poster session at PPPL on Aug. 10. Wallace developed software to allow scientists to … Read more
