Fusing Energies

Fusing Energies

Swarthmore College By Ryan DoughertyAugust 3rd, 2016 From left: Professor and Department Chair of Physics & Astronomy Mike Brown, Jeremy Han ’17, Jaron Shrock ’18, Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor of Physics David Schaffner, and postdoctoral research fellow Manjit Kaur in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment lab. Could a magnetic blob percolating at Swarthmore save the … Read more

Smart grid investments to grow global ICS security market

Smart grid investments to grow global ICS security market

Metering.com 29 AUGUST 2016 According to a new report, the increased adoption of smart grid solutions is expected to drive the global industrial control systems security market through to 2020. The ICS security market is expected to grow by 9% between 2015 and 2020. The US is expected to dominate the market. The region is … Read more

Smart grid tech improves Georgia Power operations

Smart grid tech improves Georgia Power operations

Metering.com 25 AUGUST 2016 In the US, power utility Georgia Power announced that it has improved its customer service with its investments in smart grid technologies. In a press statement, the firm serving 2.5 million customers in 159 counties in Georgia state, highlighted how smart grid technologies have enhanced its operations and helped ensure grid … Read more

Spherical tokamak could take major steps towards fusion power

Spherical tokamak could take major steps towards fusion power

CCFE 24/08/2016 A concept for a device to tackle some of the main hurdles standing in the way of commercial fusion power has been drawn up by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory with input from CCFE. The Fusion Nuclear Science Facility would for the first time integrate systems for electricity production, materials and component testing, and … Read more

Spherical tokamak as model for next steps in fusion energy

Spherical tokamak as model for next steps in fusion energy

Eureka Alert John Greenwald | 24-AUG-2016 Center stack of the National Spherical Torus-Experiment-Upgrade. CREDIT Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. 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 … Read more

S. Korea succeeds in mass production of nuclear fusion fuel

S. Korea succeeds in mass production of nuclear fusion fuel

Dam25.com Aug. 24, 2016 DAEJEON, Aug 24 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s state-run laboratory said Wednesday that it has successfully developed a technology for the mass production of tritium for nuclear fusion energy. The technology allows the annual production of more than 50 kilograms of tritium, which is one of two core fuels used for nuclear … Read more

UK Atomic Energy Authority gets a new chief executive

UK Atomic Energy Authority gets a new chief executive

Physics World Michael Banks | Aug 19, 2016 Fusion’s future: Ian Chapman will take the helm at the UKAEA The UK fusion scientist Ian Chapman has been named as the next chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). On 1 October Chapman will succeed Steve Cowley, who has been head of the authority … Read more

How to keep the superhot plasma inside tokamaks from chirping

How to keep the superhot plasma inside tokamaks from chirping

PPPL By Raphael Rosen | August 19, 2016 (Photo by Elle Starkman) PPPL scientist Vinícius Duarte “Chirp, chirp, chirp.” The familiar sound of birds is also what researchers call a wave in plasma that breaks from a single note into rapidly changing notes. This behavior can cause heat in the form of high energy particles … Read more

US utilities challenged by rising scams on prepaid customers

US utilities challenged by rising scams on prepaid customers

Metering.com 16 AUGUST 2016 The increased adoption of prepaid energy services in the US has come with both negative and positive impacts on utilities and their customers. This week, we analyse the benefits and challenges which US utilities and their customers are facing as a result of the shift to use prepaid energy services to … Read more

Truck sized nuclear fusion reactors appear on the horizon

Truck sized nuclear fusion reactors appear on the horizon

Global Futurist 13th August 2016 | Matthew Griffin Tokomak Energy aims to build mini-nuclear reactors and announces target of producing electricity by 2025 and feeding power into the grid by 2030 Nuclear fusion needs a “Wright brothers” moment, to convince the world of its promise of unlimited clean and safe energy and so unlock significant … Read more