Fusion Energy, Fusion Energy Consortium
By Royal Institution, Jun 8, 2016 Fusion energy has the potential to be one of the most important scientific breakthroughs. Physicist Ian Chapman explores the challenges in nuclear fusion and explains how the international ITER project hopes to demonstrate that fusion energy can be realised here on Earth. Ian Chapman received his MSc in Mathematics … Read more
RT.com 13 Jul, 2016 Sectional view of ITER’s tokamak © wikipedia.org Iran and France have agreed to work on an international nuclear fusion project, an Iranian official has announced. The deal, which is yet to be confirmed by Paris, comes a year after Iran and six world powers came to terms over Tehran’s atomic program. … Read more
Tradearabia.com July 13, 2016 Contractors install the main cranes of the Assembly Hall of the ITER project. Photo courtesy: ITER.org Iran said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with France to take part in a multi-national nuclear fusion project, a year after it struck a deal with six world powers to curb its own … Read more
Times of Israel BY EDITH M. LEDERER July 9, 2016 Spokesman says signing of deal with world powers last summer encouraged Tehran’s participation in the ITER initiative The Iranian flag flies in front of a UN building, Friday, July 4, 2014. (AP/Ronald Zak) Iran is hoping to join an international project in southern France that … Read more
Bangkok Post 29 Jun 2016 It’s expensive, complicated and risky, but Park Jaeyong knows that nuclear fusion is one of the only long-term hopes our planet has Park Jaeyoung in the nuclear-fusion-reactor research facility. photo Courtesy of Park Jaeyoung/ EMC2 ‘What if we can capture the sun and put it in a box?” Park Jaeyoung, … Read more
Red Herring July 1, 2016 Located a ten-minute drive outside the pretty German town of Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has a gray-and-glass front and gently waving roof that scream ‘Science Stuff Here.’ Inside, it’s not much different: bare walls, throngs of scientists drinking coffee and an Escher-pleasing warren of corridors and … Read more
NPR GEOFF BRUMFIEL | June 29, 20161 The ITER nuclear fusion reactor in France is a roughly $20 billion project designed to produce energy through the fusion of light atoms of hydrogen. The EU bears nearly half the project’s cost but there is no plan in place for Britain’s participation post-Brexit. “We are rudderless,” says … Read more
Hindu Business Line India responsible for 9% of in-kind contribution to the mission June 27, 2016 AHMEDABAD, JUNE 27: The world’s biggest nuclear fusion project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER will require more funding from India for its timely execution. The nodal agency for the project in India, the Institute for Plasma Research … Read more
Science Magazine By Daniel CleryJun. 24, 2016 Economic studies, evolutionary biology, and nanotechnology are most at risk if the United Kingdom left the European Union. U.K. researchers and their organizations have reacted with dismay to last night’s decision by the U.K. electorate to leave the European Union. Science and technology were not a major talking … Read more
Novus Light Andrew Williams | 21 June 2016 Located at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) near Oxford, the Joint European Torus (JET) project is investigating the potential of exploiting nuclear fusion – the process that powers the Sun and all stars – as a safe, clean, and virtually limitless energy source for future … Read more