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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
Gineersnow.com 29.08.2016 Via Princeton Plasma Physics Lab There are different ways to generate power out of renewable sources, but rarely does fusion power – the result of fusing the nuclei of two or more lighter atoms into one heavier nucleus – come into mind. Although it holds a promise in providing a low-cost, sustainable energy … Read more
The Tech News AUGUST 29, 2016 IRENE ADLER The ultimate race all the scientists in the world are competing for constructing the very first nuclear fusion machine. This machine will have the ability to imitate the energy generating process that has been constantly been fueling our Sun for 4.5 billion years! Consequently, the whole mankind … Read more
Science Alert BEC CREW | 29 AUG 2016 T est cell of the NSTX-U. Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Virtually limitless energy forever. Physicists around the world have been racing to build a nuclear fusion machine that can replicate the atom-fusing process that’s fuelled our Sun for the past 4.5 billion years, in a … Read more
Sciencealert.com FIONA MACDONALD | 11 AUG 2016 Stronger than any magnetic field on Earth. Researchers have proposed a new way to use lasers to generate magnetic fields that are at least one order of magnitude stronger than anything we can currently produce on Earth. In nature, such super-strong fields only exist in space, and they … Read more
CCFE 24/08/2016 A concept for a device to tackle some of the main hurdles standing in the way of commercial fusion power has been drawn up by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory with input from CCFE. The Fusion Nuclear Science Facility would for the first time integrate systems for electricity production, materials and component testing, and … Read more
Eureka Alert John Greenwald | 24-AUG-2016 Center stack of the National Spherical Torus-Experiment-Upgrade. CREDIT Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. Among the top puzzles in the development of fusion energy is the best shape for the magnetic facility — or “bottle” — that will provide the next steps in the development of fusion reactors. Leading candidates … Read more
Dam25.com Aug. 24, 2016 DAEJEON, Aug 24 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s state-run laboratory said Wednesday that it has successfully developed a technology for the mass production of tritium for nuclear fusion energy. The technology allows the annual production of more than 50 kilograms of tritium, which is one of two core fuels used for nuclear … Read more
PPPL By John Greenwald | August 22, 2016 Physicist Dylan Brennan (Photo by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications) Runaway electrons, a searing, laser-like beam of electric current released by plasma disruptions, could damage the interior walls of future tokamaks the size of ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in France. To help overcome this challenge, … Read more
Physics World Michael Banks | Aug 19, 2016 Fusion’s future: Ian Chapman will take the helm at the UKAEA The UK fusion scientist Ian Chapman has been named as the next chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). On 1 October Chapman will succeed Steve Cowley, who has been head of the authority … Read more