Fusion News

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

Tohoku University 2016-04-01 Researchers at Tohoku University have discovered a new plasma wave phenomenon, leading to the development of a negative ion source for fusion plasma heating. Led by Associate Prof K. Takahashi and Prof A. Ando, the team demonstrated adjoining generations of high and low electron temperature plasmas, based on the presently discovered plasma … Read more

PPPL By Raphael Rosen March 21, 2016 (Photo by Tyler Abrams) Physicist Tyler Abrams The world of fusion energy is a world of extremes. For instance, the center of the ultrahot plasma contained within the walls of doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks can reach temperatures well above the 15 million degrees Celsius core of … Read more

princeton.edu ABSTRACT Fusion powers the stars. By combining nuclei, fusion liberates more than a million times more energy per pound of fuel than by chemical reactions. The abundance of geographically dispersed fuel, combined with safety and environmental advantages, motivates the pursuit of controlled fusion as a possible source of power. A barrier to fusion reactions … Read more

E&E Publishing Madelyn Beck, March 29, 2016 The threat of climate change has spurred more love from Congress for energy technology, but the love only goes so far. An energy source that promises to be the cleanest, most compact, most resource-friendly of them all is faced with a reception similar to a toddler getting a … Read more

Discover By Nathaniel Scharping | March 23, 2016 The Joint European Torus tokamak generator, as seen from the inside. (Credit: EUROfusion) Nuclear fusion has long been considered the “holy grail” of energy research. It represents a nearly limitless source of energy that is clean, safe and self-sustaining. Ever since its existence was first theorized in … Read more

Guardian Damian Carrington, 4 March 2016 Tokomak Energy aims to build mini-nuclear reactors and announces target of producing electricity by 2025 and feeding power into the grid by 2030 Nuclear fusion involves two atomic nuclei joining to make a large nucleus. Energy is released when this happens. A fusion reactor simulator, like the one above … Read more

cfi.co By Penny Hitchin March 23, 2016 All You Ever Wanted to Know about Stellarators and Tokamaks The vast amounts of energy released by splitting the atom has enabled scientists to produce both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, demonstrating that mankind’s amazing technical and creative ingenuity is perhaps matched only by its morbidly mad inclination … Read more