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Daily Mail 13 July 2017 System can analyze plasma to help design safe reactors that harness the power of stars on Earth Machine learning can be used to spot processes that are causally linked This can help to predict what events cause complications in plasma behaviour Researchers say it could be used to avoid disruptions … Read more
PPPL Quest 2017 Jonathan Menard, head of NSTX-U Research. (Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL) Among the top puzzles in the development of fusion energy is the best shape for the magnetic facility — or “bottle” — that will provide the next steps in the development of fusion reactors. Leading candidates include spherical tokamaks, compact machines … Read more
Guardian 15 July 2017 The Iter nuclear fusion project under construction in the south of France in October last year. Photograph: Iter In the south of France, the largest scientific experiment mankind has ever embarked upon is rising out of the ground. This facility, the Iter project, will demonstrate nuclear fusion power on a commercial … Read more
Visual Capitalist Nick Routley on July 15, 2017 Fusion is the epitome of “high risk, high reward” scientific research. If we were to ever successfully harness the forces that power the stars, mankind could have access to power that is almost literally too cheap to meter. However, reaching that goal will be a very expensive, … Read more
Euro Fusion July 12th 2017 The inside of the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X clearly shows the reddish tiles made of copper-chromium-zirconium. Pictures: IPP The stellarator Wendelstein 7-X has received its first divertor. Just one step closer towards realising plasma pulse lengths of half an hour without breaking the machine Fusion is different. Even when it comes … Read more
GTM by Katie Fehrenbacher | July 10, 2017 But it’s just one step in a very long process. Tri Alpha Energy, a company with $500 million in backing that has been working on nuclear fusion technology for nearly two decades, reached a major milestone last month. On Monday, the company announced that it started up … Read more
news.com.au July 10, 2017 THE world is racing to harness the power of the universe’s “perfect energy source”. And Australia is playing a key role in this new frontier. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor being built in France. AS THE world tries to wean itself off fossil fuels, scientists are racing towards one of the … Read more
Wonderful Engineering by Umer Sohail July 2, 2017 We might be on the brink of achieving unlimited clean energy forever! The nuclear fusion reaction fired up by the Germans last year has been recently analyzed for performance assessment by a team of researchers from the US Department of Energy and the Max Planck Institute of … Read more
The Register 6 Jul 2017 The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Chinese boffins say they have smashed yet another world fusion record using their EAST contraption – aka the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. The experimental fusion system managed to maintain a stable plasma state for 101.2 seconds, with the temperature peaking at 50,000,000 K (90,000,000°F, 50,000,000°C), … Read more
Eureka Alert 5-Jul-2017 Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Basic parameters of the world’s longest 101.2 s high confinement discharge achieved on EAST (Bt=2.5T, PRF=3.0MW, ne/neGW=0.55, Te=4.0KeV, H98y2=1.1, Upper single null configuration) Image by the EAST Team China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) made an important advance by achieving a stable 101.2-second steady-state high confinement plasma, … Read more