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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
futureistech.info 06/17/2016 – Perry Henderson University of Washington researchers are working towards a sustainable and controlled fusion reaction with funding from the DOE to improve on their HIT-SI3 prototype. With growing climate and population concerns across the globe, researchers and the DOE are increasing efforts to discover new ways to produce cleaner and more efficient … Read more
ITER 16 JUN, 2016 On Thursday 16 June, the ITER Council officially announced its endorsement of the Resource-Loaded Integrated Schedule for the ITER Project, which identifies the date of First Plasma as December 2025. While the ITER Council acknowledges that the endorsed schedule to First Plasma is “challenging but technically achievable,” it considers that by … Read more
eurofusion.org 17th June 2016 ITER Flag. Image Source: ITER website. We aim to optimise the ITER Research Plan as much as possible. Tony Donné, EUROfusion Programme Manager, gives his views about the ITER council meeting. Donné visited General Fusion in 2015 and shares his opinion on the concept. Picture: EUROfusion Members of the ITER council … Read more
Science Magazine Daniel Clery | Jun. 16, 2016 Construction of ITER’s central tokamak area is in full swing; first fusion is now set for 2025. © ITER Organization The ITER fusion reactor will fire up for the first time in December 2025, the €18-billion project’s governing council confirmed today. The date for “first plasma” is … Read more
ScienceDaily.com June 15, 2016 A high-resolution photo shows the inside of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak with a representative cross-section of a fusion plasma superimposed. The inset depicts the approximate extent of the plasma turbulence simulations performed as part of this work. These simulations clearly demonstrate the coexistence of long wavelength blobs and short wavelength “streamers” … Read more
Bloomberg Jonathan Tirone | June 15, 2016 Another $5.2 billion sought for project to prove fusion works If successful, fusion reactors might enter service after 2050 The world’s biggest science experiment may get more time and money for completion when nuclear officials convene on Wednesday in France. Supervisors of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or … Read more
Science Magazine By Daniel Clery | Jun. 14, 2016 If the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union on 23 June, the exit will break up cross-border collaborations and cut off E.U. funding for U.K. scientists. For fusion research, the possibility of a Brexit is particularly worry ing. Europe’s largest fusion facility, the Joint European … Read more