Iranian sun

Iranian sun

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

Future Nuclear Engineers Research Fusion at General Atomics

Future Nuclear Engineers Research Fusion at General Atomics

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

A first for direct-drive fusion

A first for direct-drive fusion

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

Swedish superconductor wins prize for nuclear fusion technology

Swedish superconductor wins prize for nuclear fusion technology

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.

29th SOFT opens its curtains in Prague

29th SOFT opens its curtains in Prague

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

PPPL intern creates software for snapshot of plasma in NSTX-U

PPPL intern creates software for snapshot of plasma in NSTX-U

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

Fusing Energies

Fusing Energies

Swarthmore College By Ryan DoughertyAugust 3rd, 2016 From left: Professor and Department Chair of Physics & Astronomy Mike Brown, Jeremy Han ’17, Jaron Shrock ’18, Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor of Physics David Schaffner, and postdoctoral research fellow Manjit Kaur in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment lab. Could a magnetic blob percolating at Swarthmore save the … Read more