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LLNL June 13, 2018 This rendering of the inside of NIF’s target chamber shows the target positioner moving into place. Pulses from NIF’s high-powered lasers race through the facility at the speed of light and arrive at the center of the target chamber within a few trillionths of a second of each other, aligned to … Read more
Sunrise News June 19, 2018 The physicist of the National Ignition Facility of the United States claims that they have clinched in another milestone under the nuclear fusion energy. These physicists focused on the generation of fusion energy from a deuterium-tritium fuel capsule by its laser implosion. The generated fusion energy is twice that of … Read more
PPPL June 21, 2018 (Photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications ) Physicists Sam Lazerson, left, and Nate Ferraro. Physicists Dr. Nate Ferraro and Dr. Sam Lazerson of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have each won 2018 Early Career Research Program awards sponsored by the DOE Office of Science. … Read more
Princeton June 18, 2018 Stellarators, fusion facilities with a “twisty” design, have long played second fiddle to doughnut-shaped tokamaks that better confine the plasma that fuels fusion reactions. Now, in a development with major implications for the effort to replicate on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and stars to produce a virtually … Read more
Physics World 18 Jun 2018 Early stages: laser preamplifiers at the National Ignition Facility. (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 3.0/Damien Jemison/LLNL) Physicists working at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US say they have passed another important milestone in their quest for nuclear fusion energy. They have shown that the fusion energy generated by the laser … Read more
Times of India Jun 15, 2018 Ahmedabad: India will host the world’s largest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fusion energy conference (FEC) at the Institute of Plasma Research (IPR) in Bhat in Ahmedabad. The five-day event will begin from October 22. Preparations for the event is in full swing with scientific papers being called for … Read more
PPPL June 12, 2018 Steven Cowley in front of the Lyman Spitzer Building at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Steven Cowley, newly named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) effective July 1, has received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth “for services to science and the development of nuclear … Read more
IOP My future goal is to do whatever I can to get electricity on the grid by fusion power. Coming from a long-line of engineers my family were surprised that I desperately wanted to work in physics. After completing a degree in Engineering Physics I started my career at the University of Oxford as a … Read more
Oxford University 8 Jun 2018 The pioneering work of members of the University has been recognised in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Professor Angela Ruth McLean, FRS, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford, is appointed DBE for services to mathematical biology and to scientific advice for government. She said: “I am delighted … Read more
PPPL June 6, 2018 KSTAR physicist Jae-Min Kwon, left, and PPPL physicist C.S. Chang. (Photos by National Fusion Research Institute, left, and Elle Starkman.) Magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in fusion plasmas, can grow and disrupt the plasmas and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that house fusion reactions. Recent research at the U.S. Department … Read more