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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
Fusion for Energy 17 June 2016 The first girder installed on the roof of the ITER Assembly Hall. The engineers gathered early in the morning at ITER’s Assembly Hall in order to review once more the arrangements and tooling to be used for the lifting of the first girder of one of the two cranes … Read more
Novus Light Andrew Williams | 21 June 2016 Located at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) near Oxford, the Joint European Torus (JET) project is investigating the potential of exploiting nuclear fusion – the process that powers the Sun and all stars – as a safe, clean, and virtually limitless energy source for future … Read more
Physics Today David Kramer | 17 June 2016 More than three years after the deadline passed for obtaining a sustained, high-energy-yield nuclear fusion reaction at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the US Department of Energy is still unsure whether the $3.5 billion laser can ever attain that milestone. Much as it did in 2012, the … Read more