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nature.com Davide Castelvecchi& Jeff Tollefson, 27 May 2016 Matthieu Colin/ITER The ITER project under construction in southern France on 29 April 2016. The Department of Energy says the US should fund ITER until 2018, and then re-evaluate its progress. The troubled multibillion-euro nuclear-fusion project ITER has improved its performance and management, and the United States … Read more
NJTV By Briana Vannozzi | 5-23-16 Inside a metal spheroid covered with beams and high-tech magnets, scientists are hoping to achieve something that sounds impossible. Create a star on Earth, essentially in a bottle. “We are starting a new experiment its called NSTX-U — the National Spherical Torus Upgrade — and it’s going to push … Read more
Times of India Paul John | TNN | May 24, 2016 Ahmedabad: After six years of committed effort, India’s steady state experimental superconducting Tokamak (SST-1) fusion reactor has made its first major breakthrough. On Saturday, at the Institute of Plasma Research (IPR) in Bhat a team of scientists were able to confine plasma – a … Read more
J.D. Power Power Reliability Shows Improvement; Communications about Outages Is Key COSTA MESA, Calif.: 13 July 2016 — Although customer-reported monthly electric bills have fallen to their lowest levels in 10 years and overall satisfaction is on the rise, electric utility providers continue to struggle to match other industries in customer satisfaction, according to the … Read more
At the Energy Department’s Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, scientists are trying to accomplish what was once considered the realm of science fiction: create a star on Earth. The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) is a magnetic fusion device that is used to study the physics principles of spherically shaped plasmas — hot ionized gases in … Read more
issues.org Winter, 2016 by Ray Rothrock A venture capitalist takes on fusion energy I am a venture capitalist and have been for 27 years. Trained in nuclear engineering in the 1970s, I worked in that profession until 1988, when I joined Venrock, the private venture partnership of the Rockefeller family. Since then, I’ve learned a … Read more
Next Big Future May 20, 2016 Tri Alpha Energy, nuclear fusion startup, has raised $500 million. Tri Alpha’s setup borrows some of the principles of high-energy particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider, to fire beams of plasma into a central vessel where the fusion reaction takes place. Last August the company said it … Read more
inverse.com Kastalia Medrano | May 20, 2016 Can a handful of startups win the race to market nuclear fusion – at a fraction of the cost of government-funded projects? Tri Alpha Energy, a Southern California fusion startup, just raised nearly $500,000 to try to make fusion power a reality. Funded by heavyweights like Goldman Sachs … Read more
PPPL By John Greenwald | May 19, 2016 U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will dedicate the newest U.S. fusion facility of the 21st century on Friday, May 20, at the DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The $94-million upgrade to the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX-U), four … Read more
technolgy review by Richard Martin May 20, 2016 A startup in California has raised $500 million to chase the elusive dream of fusion power. Is this crazy, or is the company on to something? No energy technology is more tantalizing than fusion, but no energy technology has proved more disappointing. So how has a fusion … Read more