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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
Phys.org January 30, 2018 Nuclear fusion for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens within stars is one of the foremost technological promises for coming decades. So far, only limited results have been achieved in laboratory experiments. Now, a prototype reactor … Read more
PhD Positions 28. januar 2018 (Finland) Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with nearly 11 000 students and nearly 400 professors. Our campuses are located … Read more
CNN January 25, 2018 Professor Thomas Klinger heads up one of the world’s most advanced nuclear fusion projects at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, where 400 scientists from around the world have invested over one million manpower hours to build the Wendelstein 7-X, a prototype nuclear fusion reactor. It’s called nuclear fusion: a … Read more
Mach Dec.29.2017 Construction is underway at the ITER fusion reactor in southern France on Dec. 5, 2017.ITER Organization/EJF Riche Renewable energy sources like solar and wind account for a growing share of the world’s electric power. That’s no surprise, given concerns about the carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants and their harmful effect on … Read more
ITER 22 JAN, 2018 After a comprehensive re-design of the tokamak cooling water system, manufacturing can now begin for components that, according to construction sequencing requirements, need to be installed before the machine’s First Plasma. At your home, water is delivered to the tap at a flow rate of 0.1 m³/ second, a velocity of … Read more
University of Saskatchewan SARATH PEIRIS Jan 17, 2018 With Canada’s only tokamak fusion reactor, the University of Saskatchewan has long been on the front lines of nuclear fusion experimentation. Akira Hirose (front left) and Prof. Chijin Xiao (front right) with students, and tokamak in the background. Fusion is what powers the sun, where massive gravitational … Read more
Engineering 360 S. Himmelstein | 19 January 2018 Cross-section of the KSTAR tokamak showing select hardware components of the vertical control system: new magnetic flux loops (magenta circles) used to infer the vertical position of the plasma and vertical magnetic field coils (red squares) that control the position. A new algorithm sustained a stable plasma … Read more