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Earth Talk August 11, 2016 The EU, US, China, India, Korea, Russia and Japan have all contributed to the ITER fusion reactor currently under construction in southern France Dear EarthTalk: What is fusion energy and why are environmentalists so bullish on it? — Mickey Brent, Milwaukee, WI Nuclear fusion may be the most promising energy … Read more
Institute of Mechanical Engineers As part of our Innovation campaign, we spoke to Tokamak Energy’s Dr Melanie Windridge about the company’s vision, the role of engineers in society, and what innovation means to her. Tokamak Energy is one of the companies supported by our Stephenson Fund. What does Tokamak Energy do? Tokamak Energy is working … Read more
earthtalk.org Gus Vannewkirk | 08/03/2016 Dear EarthTalk: What is fusion energy and why are environmentalists so bullish on it? —Mickey Brent, Milwaukee, WI Nuclear fusion may be the most promising energy source that most of us have never heard of. Scientists first discovered fusion as a potential energy source in the 1930’s and have been … Read more
Utility Week Tom Grimwood | 03/08/2016 Ian Chapman has been appointed by the government as the new chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. The 34-year-old ‘rising star’ will take over from Steve Crowley at the beginning of October. Chapman will head up Britain’s nuclear fusion research programme at the Culham Science Centre near … Read more
Phys.org August 4, 2016 The right side of the figure where the electric field’s absolute value is small corresponds to the L-mode plasma and the left side having large electric field to the H-mode. The black line indicates the experimental value of the electric current and the red line the theoretical value used in the … Read more
A panel discussion at the Milken Institute Published on May 2, 2016 Moderator Katie Fehrenbacher, Senior Writer, Fortune Speakers Michl Binderbauer, Chief Technology Officer, Tri Alpha Energy Michel Laberge, Founder and Chief Science Officer, General Fusion Thomas McGuire, Research Engineer and Scientist; Compact Fusion Principal Investigator, Lockheed Martin Dennis Whyte, Director, Plasma Science and Fusion … Read more
futurism.com By Patrick Caughill | June 17, 2016 IN BRIEF Three papers released by an English startup, Tokamak Energy, are challenging established science that in the area of fusion reactors, bigger is not always better. A startup out of the United Kingdom claims that it can deliver a reactor with fusion power gain within five … Read more
Sputnik News 27.07.2016 Iran has a lot to offer the international ITER project to build the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device, Iranian experts told Sputnik. Iran is in negotiations to join the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project, a collaboration to build the world’s largest tokamak, a device which uses magnetic fields to … Read more
By Scott Hsu, Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory July 12, 2016 Challenges at ITER and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) bolster the quip that fusion is always thirty years away. This is increasingly bringing into question fusion’s “monoculture” (e.g., see Dan Clery’s editorial, Dec. 2014). Because renewable and fission energy are being deployed, despite … Read more
PSFC-MIT Paul Rivenberg | July 12, 2016 Mike Rosenberg will receive the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in November at the APS DPP Meeting Eugene Kowaluk, LLE, University of Rochester Although Mike Rosenberg received his PhD from MIT (Department of Physics) in September 2014, his work at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center … Read more