Fusion News

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

NPR GEOFF BRUMFIEL | June 29, 20161 The ITER nuclear fusion reactor in France is a roughly $20 billion project designed to produce energy through the fusion of light atoms of hydrogen. The EU bears nearly half the project’s cost but there is no plan in place for Britain’s participation post-Brexit. “We are rudderless,” says … Read more

MIT News David L. Chandler | June 29, 2016 “When I started in graduate school I knew already that I wanted to work on turbulence in tokamaks,” says Anne White, the Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor in Nuclear Engineering in MIT’s Plasma Fusion and Science Center. Photo: Bryce Vickmark Physicist has a fascination for … Read more

PPPL The Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program at PPPL is for undergraduates interested in performing plasma physics and fusion energy research. Students perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting PPPL’s research. **The PPPL 2017 SULI program dates are June 12-August 18, 2017.** Applications for the SULI program … Read more

The Indian Express June 28, 2016 India, which has already spent close to Rs 2,000 crore on this project that involves building a 500 megawatt fusion reactor The aim of the ITER project, which began in 2006, is to determine whether nuclear fusion can be a source of energy and electricity in the future. (Source: … Read more

Hindu Business Line India responsible for 9% of in-kind contribution to the mission June 27, 2016 AHMEDABAD, JUNE 27: The world’s biggest nuclear fusion project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER will require more funding from India for its timely execution. The nodal agency for the project in India, the Institute for Plasma Research … Read more

WNN 24 June 2016 EDF Energy, NuGeneration and Horizon Nuclear Power have all stressed their commitment to the UK’s nuclear new build program, despite the country’s decision to leave the European Union. Nevertheless, the majority vote in favour of ‘Brexit’ – decided in a national referendum held yesterday – may have implications for investment in … Read more

Science Magazine By Daniel CleryJun. 24, 2016 Economic studies, evolutionary biology, and nanotechnology are most at risk if the United Kingdom left the European Union. U.K. researchers and their organizations have reacted with dismay to last night’s decision by the U.K. electorate to leave the European Union. Science and technology were not a major talking … Read more