Forbes Ken Silverstein | FEB 12, 2018 The winding facility of the ITER ( the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), in the CEN of Cadarache, Private investors are now actively trying to commercialize an advanced form of nuclear energy and one that would leave no environmental footprint while also delivering electricity to the world’s expanding population. … Read more
The Fusion Energy Consortium is a member sponsored U.S. IRS Title 26 501(c)(3) compliant LLC established as a foundation to stimulate the science, research, and development leading to practical controlled nuclear fusion energy. What is Fusion Energy? Fusion energy is a potentially unlimited source of energy capable of producing baseload power for the world’s electrical … Read more
MIT News Leda Zimmerman | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering | February 16, 2018 Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations. Pablo Rodriguez Fernandez, first author of the study and a graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Photo: Borja Santos Porras To make … Read more
Phys.org February 13, 2018, American Institute of Physics Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a “reduced physics” fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected properties of the density profile inside a tokamak experiment. Modeling plasma’s turbulent behavior could help scientists optimize … Read more
DOE News Credit: Image courtesy of Office of Science. Celebrating four decades of landmark research milestones. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, the largest U.S. supporter of basic research in the physical sciences, celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding in 2017. To mark the 40th anniversary of Office of Science support … Read more
Royal Society Register for the conference Conference in London on March 26 & 27, 2018 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 Windridge and Professor Guenter Janeschitz. Fusion power is one … Read more
Atul’s Earth 14 February 2018 MINNIE is a feature film script with an environmental theme that reached the semi-final of Screencraft’s International Screenwriting Competition, 2015. Please click the video file below to see the trailer. The feature length version has not yet been made. Please read the article below and contact me if you would … Read more
PPPL February 12, 2018 PPPL physicist Francesca Poli ITER Plasma Cross-Section and Structures A key goal for ITER, the international fusion device under construction in France, will be to produce 10 times more power than goes into it to heat the hot, charged plasma that sustains fusion reactions. Among the steps needed to reach that … Read more
San Diego Union Tribune Rob Nikolewski | Feb. 2, 2018 Using nuclear fusion as a virtually unlimited source of energy has been a thrilling yet distant dream for more than six decades. An expensive and incredibly complicated international project to determine if the fantasy can become reality is finally taking shape — and San Diego’s … Read more
ITER 29 JAN, 2018 In those days—the late 1950s—pinch machines ruled the world of fusion. Although tokamaks were already under development in the Soviet Union, it would be more than a decade before they became the dominant form of fusion device. A “circular pinch” machine, Zeta operated at Harwell (UK) between 1957 and 1968. At … Read more