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PPPL By Raphael Rosen | August 19, 2016 (Photo by Elle Starkman) PPPL scientist Vinícius Duarte “Chirp, chirp, chirp.” The familiar sound of birds is also what researchers call a wave in plasma that breaks from a single note into rapidly changing notes. This behavior can cause heat in the form of high energy particles … Read more

CCFE 18/08/2016 Jonathan Naish from CCFE’s Technology Department has won a €12,500 prize in the SOFT (Symposium on Fusion Technology) innovation competition for his new software development, VORTEX. VORTEX softwareThe VORTEX (Virtual Operator RadiaTion EXposure) software prototype combines virtual reality environments with the high-fidelity 3D data output of radiation transport calculations, such as gamma radiation … Read more

BBC 16 August 2016 The Joint European Torus is based at Culham Science Centre Scientists are concerned dust from a planned quarry could affect their nuclear fusion experiments. Hills Quarry Products wants to dig out 2.5 million tonnes of sand and gravel from an Oxfordshire site over 10 years. The Culham Science Centre (CSC), which … Read more

Next Big Future August 15, 2016 LPPFusion is trying to develop aneutronic fusion with a dense plasma focus device. A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a machine that produces, by electromagnetic acceleration and compression, a short-lived plasma that is hot and dense enough to cause nuclear fusion and the emission of X-rays and neutrons. The … Read more

Eureka Alert 15-AUG-2016 IMAGE: MAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS IN A FUSION PLASMA ARE SHOWN. CREDIT: GERRIT KRAMER Physicists led by Gerrit Kramer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have conducted simulations that suggest that applying magnetic fields to fusion plasmas can control instabilities known as Alfvén waves that can reduce the … Read more

Global Futurist 13th August 2016 | Matthew Griffin Tokomak Energy aims to build mini-nuclear reactors and announces target of producing electricity by 2025 and feeding power into the grid by 2030 Nuclear fusion needs a “Wright brothers” moment, to convince the world of its promise of unlimited clean and safe energy and so unlock significant … Read more

ibtimes By Hannah Osborne | August 12, 2016 Nuclear fusion is often touted as the Holy Grail of sustainable energy. It works in the same way as the Sun and stars produce energy, meaning it could potentially provide a cheap and near-limitless source of power. However, while the scientific understanding of harnessing this potential source … Read more

Sputnik News 09.08.2016 Research associates at the National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) Department of Plasma Physics have made a discovery that will help protect fusion reactors from plasma damage, thus ensuring their reliable operation, the university press service said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Thermonuclear units are designed to utilize fusion reactions, like those that occur on … Read more

Enviro Tech Aug 10 2016 A major breakthrough from a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might just have opened the door to a clean, almost endless supply of energy to solve our current crisis. By using sophisticated computer technology, the researchers were able to create a model of conditions inside … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald | August 11, 2016 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been named principal investigator for a multi-institutional project to study plasma-materials interaction (PMI)on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China. The centerpiece of the PPPL role in this project is the optimization of lithium … Read more