Fusion winter school in Budapest

Fusion winter school in Budapest

magfuzio Feb. 21, 2017 Over the last decade the Hungarian Association of Physics Students (Mafihe) has been organizing an annual winter school. This event acts like a break for the physics students after the tough examination period, exploring a stimulating part of physics or related scientific area. The topics are usually chosen to be on … Read more

Fusion Energy’s Dreamers, Hucksters, and Loons

Fusion Energy’s Dreamers, Hucksters, and Loons

Slate.com JAN. 3 2013 The Cryostat forms the vacuum-tight container surrounding the ITER vacuum vessel and the superconducting magnets, essentially acting as a very large refrigerator. It will be made of stainless steel with thicknesses ranging from 50 mm to 250 mm. The structure is designed for 8,500 m3. Its overall dimensions will be 29.4 … Read more

A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR U.S. BURNING PLASMA RESEARCH

A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR U.S. BURNING PLASMA RESEARCH

The National Academies of SCIENCES· ENGINEERING· MEDICINE 2016 Statement of Task A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be formed to study the state and potential of magnetic confinement-based fusion research in the United States and provide guidance on a long-term strategy for the field. The study will focus on … Read more

Core Concept: Stabilizing turbulence in fusion stellarators

Core Concept: Stabilizing turbulence in fusion stellarators

pnas.org vol. 114 no. 6 > Adam Mann, 1217–1219, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618480113 In the earliest days of the Cold War, physicists on both sides of the Iron Curtain raced to harness energy from nuclear fusion, which could, in principle, provide nearly limitless electricity. Innovative devices with names like pinch machines, levitrons, and superstators flourished, and for … Read more

Fusion Energy: 21st Century Moon Shot

Fusion Energy: 21st Century Moon Shot

By: Tom D. Tamarkin March 5, 2017 Introduction Mankind thrives on Earth today with a worldwide population of over 7 billion people. Fundamental to his existence is agriculture and energy. It takes massive amounts of energy to sustain agriculture. And it takes energy to produce and transport water for man and crops. Man has built … Read more

WEST TOKAMAK PRODUCES FIRST PLASMA

WEST TOKAMAK PRODUCES FIRST PLASMA

The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 1 Feb 2017 CEA – Tungsten monoblock elements The WEST project’s success in producing its first plasma allows it to test materials for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. A tokamak in France has produced its first plasma, demonstrating the success of modifications made to the fusion reactor. The … Read more

Riccardo joins PPPL as head of engineering

Riccardo joins PPPL as head of engineering

PPPL February 1, 2017 Valeria Riccardo Photo by Elle Starkman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Valeria Riccardo has joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as the new head of engineering. She has more than 20 years of experience in project management, fusion design and analysis on two fusion devices in the U.K. that are similar to … Read more

World Nuclear Association Annual Assessment of the State of Nuclear Fusion Power

World Nuclear Association Annual Assessment of the State of Nuclear Fusion Power

World Nuclear Association (Updated January 2017) Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, but it also presents so far insurmountable scientific and engineering challenges. The main hope is centred on tokamak reactors and stellarators which confine a deuterium-tritium plasma magnetically. Today, many countries take part in fusion … Read more

Tokamak Energy plans net electricity production fusion by 2025 and commercial grid production by 2030

Tokamak Energy plans net electricity production fusion by 2025 and commercial grid production by 2030

Next Big Future January 30, 2017 Experimental and theoretical research has shown ‘spherical’ tokamaks to be a “fast route to fusion” compared with more “conventional” tokamak devices such as Joint European Torus (JET), according to David Kingham, chief executive of Tokamak Energy. “By pursuing this route, fusion researchers around the world, including at Tokamak Energy, … Read more

Spherical tokamak ‘to put fusion power in grid’ by 2030

Spherical tokamak ‘to put fusion power in grid’ by 2030

WNN 30 January 2017 Experimental and theoretical research has shown ‘spherical’ tokamaks to be a “fast route to fusion” compared with more “conventional” tokamak devices such as Joint European Torus (JET), according to David Kingham, chief executive of Tokamak Energy. “By pursuing this route, fusion researchers around the world, including at Tokamak Energy, are developing … Read more