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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
CCFE Culham Center for Fusion Energy The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) facility at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is undergoing a major upgrade that will enhance the UK’s role in international fusion research. When completed in 2016/17, MAST Upgrade will enable scientists to: Make the case for a fusion Component Test Facility (CTF). A … Read more
CCFE Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Depending on resources, we aim every year to have new PhD and MSc projects with several UK universities addressing plasma physics, materials science and fusion engineering associated with tokamaks, providing a range of exciting research opportunities. The projects range from the theoretical, through computational modelling, to experimental studies. Most … Read more
ICTP The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will jointly organize a School and Workshop on Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices from 18 to 22 July 2016. The event will be hosted by the CAS Institutes of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) … Read more
Daily Mail By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD 18 March 2016 Iter uses electric current to trap plasma inside a doughnut-shaped device long enough for fusion to occur Engineers in France are currently building its 18 magnets that each weigh between 113,400kg and 226,800kg Rocket scientists have been recruited to create super-strong materials that can hold these magnets … Read more
Gizmodo Jamie Condiff March 18, 2016 When it’s finally built, ITER will be the world’s biggest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor—and probably our best chance to date for making nuclear fusion work. But engineers are currently toiling with building the damn thing and its magnets are proving to be a challenge. A toroidal fusion reactor … Read more
Energywire Christa Marshall, E&E reporter March 18, 2016 The fusion debate on Capitol Hill is heating up. The issue popped up in a flurry of letters, bills and comments in the past week as appropriators weighed proposed cuts to the Department of Energy’s overall fusion budget. Congress also is waiting for a report from Energy … Read more
PPPL March 15, 2016 Compression of a turbulent plasma. Image by Seth Davidovits Physicists have long regarded plasma turbulence as unruly behavior that can limit the performance of fusion experiments. But new findings by researchers associated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at … Read more
Motherboard EMIKO JOZUKA 16 March 2016 Nuclear fusion is the energy of the Sun and stars, and there’s a global race to generate it as an alternative green energy source. But before researchers get started, they need to ensure that their nuclear fusion reactors can withstand the extreme temperatures produced when hydrogen atoms collide to … Read more
The Nation March 12, 2016 The path to creating sustainable fusion energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electricity has led to a point where the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director … Read more