World record plasma exposure in Magnum-PSI

Differ News March 27th 2018 On Wednesday 21 March, the research facility Magnum-PSI at DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) set a new world record for longest exposure of a material to the harsh plasma conditions in future fusion reactors. Magnum-PSI exposed tungsten wall components to the equivalent of a full year of high … Read more

LPP Fusion has funds try to reach nuclear fusion net gain milestone

NextBigFuture brian wang | March 27, 2018 LPP Fusion has raised over $640,000 in its latest crowdfunding round. LPP fusion is preparing for beryllium electrode experiments for its attempt to prove out their dense plasma focus fusion designs. LPP fusion wants to build small, decentralized 5 Megawatt nuclear fusion generators that will use hydrogen and … Read more

UK firm sees year-end launch of pulsed power device

WNN 15 March 2018 First Light Fusion (FLF) is investing GBP3.6 million (USD5.0 million) building what it says will be the only pulsed power machine of its scale in the world dedicated to researching fusion energy. The Oxford, England-based company said on 12 March it expects to commission the device – Machine 3 – by … Read more

Duke of York sees energy revolution in the making at Culham

CCFE 22/03/2018 HRH The Duke of York visited CCFE yesterday to see at first hand its pioneering work on fusion energy. Culham is home to JET – the Joint European Torus – the world’s largest fusion experiment, which CCFE operates for scientists around Europe. The Duke of York toured JET and learned of its role … Read more

Why a nuclear fusion company is lasering in on cancer

Greenbiz Katie Fehrenbacher | March 12, 2018 TAE Technologies’ nuclear fusion reactor technology. Technology developed to try to crack the code of nuclear fusion — that elusive type of nuclear energy that powers the sun — is now being repurposed to kill cancer. The unusual move comes from TAE Technologies, a company that has been … Read more

Japan is commissioning the world’s most powerful nuclear fusion research supercomputer

The Verge By Shannon Liao Mar 19, 2018 “Trinity,” the Cray supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. Credit: Cray Japan is launching a Cray XC50 supercomputer for advanced nuclear fusion research, which will begin production this year. While the Cray XC50 supercomputer is far from the most powerful … Read more

Fusion energy using tokamaks: can development be accelerated?

Discussion meeting in London Register for this event and get more information Starts: March 26, 2018 at 09:00 Ends: March 27, 2018 at 17:00 Location The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG Overview Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Colin Windsor FRS, Professor Dennis Whyte, Dr Jack Connor FRS, Dr Melanie … Read more

Safer nuclear fusion used for energy generation

Plant Engineering Gregory Hale, ISSSource | 03/17/2018 Nuclear fusion for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what actually happens in our sun is one of the top technological promises for the future and researchers are looking to produce net energy through a … Read more

Chirping is welcome in birds but not in fusion devices – scientists show that weak turbulence makes chirping more likely

PPPL By John Greenwald | March 16, 2018 (Photo by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications) Physicist Vinícius Duarte, left, with advisor and coauthor Nikolai Gorelenkov. Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called “tokamaks.” But tokamak chirping— a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect — … Read more