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VOA George Putic | April 22, 2016 All today’s nuclear power plants make energy by thge splitting of uranium atoms — which creates a lot of useful heat but also a lot of dangerous and deadly nuclear waste. The opposite process — fusion — also creates heat but with hardly any pesky radiation. The problem … Read more
Daily Illini By Michael Semaca | 04/18/16 Photo courtesy of Michael Semaca | The Daily Illini The HIDRA, the University’s fusion device. The University’s nuclear fusion device, the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications, or HIDRA, will finally be completed and will form its first plasma Friday. This process will allow researchers like Dr. … Read more
The Maven Apr. 19 2016 Nuclear research in the UK has been descibed as “world class” An independent review into nuclear fission and fusion research in the UK has backed the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s “world-class” fusion programme. The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) commissioned the review to guide its future strategy. The … Read more
phys.org April 15, 2016 I mène Goumiri led the design of a controller. Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion … Read more
Next Big Future April 13, 2016 Nextbigfuture has obtained the independent reviews of EMC2 Fusions work for the US Navy from 2012 and 2013. The reviews were obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request. In our July 5, 2013, report, the review committee stated, “The EMC2 team is finally at the threshold of success … Read more
Next Big Future April 12, 2016 The Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) concept provides game-changing propulsion and power capabilities that would revolutionize interplanetary travel. DFD is based on the Princeton Field-Reversed Configuration (PFRC) fusion reactor under development at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The mission context we are proposing is delivery of a Pluto orbiter with … Read more
comsol Brianne Costa April 12, 2016 We can solve many of the world’s energy sustainability problems by harnessing the power of the sun through fusion energy. Tokamaks are devices that test the practicality of employing fusion energy on Earth. ITER, which will be the largest tokamak on Earth when complete, has required years of research … Read more
youngmensanorth.com Asad Hussain 08 APRIL 2016 It is an industry that dominates news outlets and dictates discourse of the current political environment. We are constantly told that we are in the midst of an oncoming energy crisis: our fossil fuel reserves are limited. Yet, fossil fuels are what we fundamentally rely upon. From major ventures … Read more
The Engineer 7th April 2016 Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have designed a new device that uses liquid lithium to improve the performance of tokamaks. The white-hot limiter glowing in contact with the plasma (Credit: J.S. Hu) Known as a liquid lithium limiter, it circulates the molten metal around the tokamak walls, … Read more
EU Reporter The European Parliament’s lead budgetary control committee held its annual vote on the discharge of the EU budget on 4 April. MEPs voted unanimously to refuse to recommend granting a discharge to the EU budget line for the ITER nuclear fusion project. The report voted by the committee highlights concerns with cost overruns, … Read more