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Eurofusion June 27th 2016 If someone was definitely not in hibernation, it was EUROfusion during the past half year. In February, the three tokamaks JET, ASDEX Upgrade and TCV were running simultaneously, accompanied by the first experimental campaign of the shiny new Wendelstein 7-X device. Two more experiments, MAST-U and WEST, are also about to … Read more
Times of Israel BY EDITH M. LEDERER July 9, 2016 Spokesman says signing of deal with world powers last summer encouraged Tehran’s participation in the ITER initiative The Iranian flag flies in front of a UN building, Friday, July 4, 2014. (AP/Ronald Zak) Iran is hoping to join an international project in southern France that … Read more
HispanTV July 5, 2016 The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) cooperate in the global project to commercially produce energy by nuclear fusion, known as ITER. “It has been established increased cooperation and relations the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER, its acronym in English) and Iranian scientists” , announced Tuesday AEOI spokesman, Behruz Kamalvandi. … Read more
Dereporteros.com by Claudia Rodriguez | July 4, 2016 building a reactor is intended laboratory scale Tokamak As part of the international effort to create new sources of renewable energy, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) works with scientists from Mexico and the world to create new sources of alternative energy, through the development of technologies applicable … Read more
Bangkok Post 29 Jun 2016 It’s expensive, complicated and risky, but Park Jaeyong knows that nuclear fusion is one of the only long-term hopes our planet has Park Jaeyoung in the nuclear-fusion-reactor research facility. photo Courtesy of Park Jaeyoung/ EMC2 ‘What if we can capture the sun and put it in a box?” Park Jaeyoung, … Read more
Next Big Future June 29, 2016 LPP Fusion’s President and Chief Scientist Eric Lerner reported on June 21 new record ion energies of over 260 keV (equivalent to a temperature of over 2.8 billion degrees K) to 150 plasma scientists assembled in Prague, Czech Republic for the 27th International Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology. … Read more
Ars Technica by Dave Loschiavo – Jul 3, 2016 Foreground buildings: Contractors Canteen, Changing Rooms, Showers, etc. || Green, Yellow, and Red buildings: Contractors’ Offices || White Building: Canteen and Infirmary for Contractors || Tall building: Assembly Hall || To the right of the Assembly Hall and behind the other buildings: Cryostat Assembly Site Dave … Read more
Red Herring July 1, 2016 Located a ten-minute drive outside the pretty German town of Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has a gray-and-glass front and gently waving roof that scream ‘Science Stuff Here.’ Inside, it’s not much different: bare walls, throngs of scientists drinking coffee and an Escher-pleasing warren of corridors and … Read more
IPP June 30, 2016 Latin America’s first stellarator / official inauguration on 29 June 2016 Stellarator de Costa Rica 1 – a first for Latin America Photo: TEC The small SRC-1 stellarator in Costa Rica went into operation on 29 June 2016. The device was planned and built by the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy … Read more
Tico Times L. ARIAS | June 30, 2016 Researchers built Costa Rica’s Stellarator-1 (SCR-1) at the TEC campus in Cartago province. (Via TEC) Researchers at the Technology Institute of Costa Rica (TEC) announced the first discharge of high temperature plasma in Latin America on Wednesday, joining an elite group of countries who have made advances … Read more