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motherboard February 3, 2016 Angela Merkel (center) touring the Wendelstein 7-X facility. Image: Getty This story was translated from the original published by Motherboard Germany. The Max Planck Institute in Greifswald reached a true milestone in physics and technical engineering today right in front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s eyes. The brand-new reactor, an experimental … Read more
IEEE Spectrum By Alexander Hellemans 3 Feb 2016 Hydrogen plasma navigates the tortuous turns of the stellarator. Today the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a ceremony at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma physics in Greifswald in Germany, pressed a button that caused a two-megawatt pulse of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 … Read more
Independent Frank Jordans Feb. 3, 2016 Scientists in Germany are set to begin an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.” Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald will heat a tiny amount of hydrogen until it becomes a super-hot gas known … Read more
IPP Livestream to the ceremony on 3 February 2016 Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel has been asked to switch on the first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016 at a ceremony attended by numerous guests from the realms of science and politics. This will mark the start of scientific operation of Wendelstein 7-X. This the world’s … Read more
Geekwire BY ALAN BOYLE on January 29, 2016 Plasma glows inside EMC2 Fusion’s test device during a high-energy shot in 2013. (Credit: EMC2 Fusion) After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with an unorthodox concept for nuclear fusion power plants. The concept is … Read more
Science News Jan. 29, 2016 by Alan Boyle Magazine issue: Vol. 189, No. 3, February 6, 2016, p. 18 Startups bring a new attitude to the energy quest — will it be enough? RENEGADE FUSION Private-sector startups, like General Fusion, are betting they can develop an energy source for the future faster than government-funded projects. … Read more
LANL Glen Wurden in the stellarator’s vacuum vessel during camera installation in 2014. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 27, 2015—Since the world’s largest superconducting magnetic fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, went online in December, innovative new imaging systems designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory are helping physicists peer into the roiling world of superhot plasmas … Read more
The Nation John Draper, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa January 28, 2016 A ‘clean’ alternative to fossil fuels and atomic fission could be less than a decade away According to the Thai Ministry of Energy’s Integrated Blueprint, up to 5 per cent of the country’s energy requirements will be met by nuclear power by 2036. Nuclear power has … Read more
EUROfusion Plasma Ball. (Image: EUROfusion) Aspiring plasma physicists and future fusion researchers could start their training from their living rooms. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), a EUROfusion consortium member, has kicked off the latest MOOC edition on plasma physics and its applications. The course which is set to run for nine … Read more
America led worldwide fusion energy records through TFTR decommissioning in 1997 PPPL By John Greenwald, December 9, 2013 Republished here Jan. 26, 2016 PPPL staffers monitor a closed-circuit screen during the historic 1993 experiment. Tensions rose in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as the seconds counted down. At stake … Read more