Fusion News

By Scott Hsu, Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory July 12, 2016 Challenges at ITER and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) bolster the quip that fusion is always thirty years away. This is increasingly bringing into question fusion’s “monoculture” (e.g., see Dan Clery’s editorial, Dec. 2014). Because renewable and fission energy are being deployed, despite … Read more

PSFC-MIT Paul Rivenberg | July 12, 2016 Mike Rosenberg will receive the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in November at the APS DPP Meeting Eugene Kowaluk, LLE, University of Rochester Although Mike Rosenberg received his PhD from MIT (Department of Physics) in September 2014, his work at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center … Read more

LANL July 21, 2016 Cutaway view of an imploding plasma liner (blue), formed by 60 inward-directed plasma jets, as it engages a magnetized plasma fuel target. (Plasma is hot, ionized gas. CREDIT: Copyright HyperV Technologies Corp Promising advances in nuclear fusion research from a new, low-cost experiment Sixty kilograms of fusion fuel would power a … Read more

I-HLS May 16, 2016 the post is also avaible in: Hebrew :הכתבה זמינה גם ב Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest defense contractor, has been aiming for some time now to use nuclear fusion to create cheap electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byproducts that are totally safe and releases no air pollution. The … Read more

The Engineer 11th July 2016 The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has successfully completed its first stages of research, heating plasmas to temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius and achieving pulse lengths of six seconds. Known as W7-X, the nuclear fusion device is the largest stellarator ever constructed, using 50 computer-designed electromagnets to guide superheated plasma around … Read more

Reuters Jul 13, 2016 Model of the future experimental nuclear fusion reactor in Cadarache, north of Marseille, June 30, 2005. REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAU/FILES Iran is assessing whether to apply for associate membership of the ITER multi-national nuclear fusion project, its director said on Wednesday, just a year after Tehran struck a deal with six world powers … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald | July 12, 2016 Inside the new nanolaboratory. Front and center from left: Philip Efthimion, head of the Plasma Science and Technology Department, Charles Gentile, lead engineer for the nanolab, and Yevgeny Raitses, principal investigator and head of the facility. Behind them are members of the PPPL nanolab team. Plasma – … Read more

commonweathmagazine.org SUMMER 2016 Edward M. Murphy A Q&A with a remarkably optimistic Dennis Whyte from MIT GREATER BOSTON IS on a roll, propelled by innovation. The US Chamber of Commerce recently named the region number one in the nation for “fostering entrepreneurial growth and innovation.” Our universities, medical institutions, research labs, and venture capitalists have … Read more

RT.com 13 Jul, 2016 Sectional view of ITER’s tokamak © wikipedia.org Iran and France have agreed to work on an international nuclear fusion project, an Iranian official has announced. The deal, which is yet to be confirmed by Paris, comes a year after Iran and six world powers came to terms over Tehran’s atomic program. … Read more

Tradearabia.com July 13, 2016 Contractors install the main cranes of the Assembly Hall of the ITER project. Photo courtesy: ITER.org Iran said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with France to take part in a multi-national nuclear fusion project, a year after it struck a deal with six world powers to curb its own … Read more