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Newswise 10-May-2016 Source Newsroom: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Newswise — A promising experiment that encloses hot, magnetically confined plasma in a full wall of liquid lithium is undergoing a $2 million upgrade at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Engineers are installing a powerful neutral beam injector in the laboratory’s … Read more

By Dimitris Raptis, Junior Analyst KEDISA May 5, 2016 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an independent international organization. The fundamental goal of the IAEA is the promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear technology, such as fusion energy. For many decades now the IAEA has worked towards promoting and providing safeguards against the … Read more

Technology Review by Richard Martin May 4, 2016 The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project reached a critical phase last week, as a panel of experts convened to review the latest revised budget and time line to build the proposed fusion reactor delivered its findings. Launched in 2006, ITER has been plagued with delays and … Read more

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN By Sehrish Wasif | May 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ambition for securing membership to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) group – one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world – are being hindered by shortage of both funds and capable researchers, experts told The Express Tribune on … Read more

Phys.org May 3, 2016 by John Greenwald Simulation shows trapped electrons at left and passing electron at right that are carried in the bootstrap current of a tokamak. Credit: Kwan Liu-Ma, University of California, Davis Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have challenged understanding of a key element … Read more

Phys.org May 2, 2016 ANSTO researchers have joined the thousands of experts from 35 countries working worldwide to resolve technological challenges relating to a world’s fusion energy collaboration, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France by assisting with neutron diffraction studies on the materials used in the superconducting cables. Measurements on the Kowari residual … Read more

the Engineer By Stuart Nathan 29th April 2016 New analysis of experimental plasma containment devices suggests that making energy from nuclear fusion might not require the building of enormous, complicated fusion reactors. Alan Costley, a physicist working for the company Tokomak Solutions in Culham, Oxfordshire, has written a paper in the journal Nuclear Fusion which … Read more

BBC By Jonathan Frochtzwajg, 28 April 2016 The founders of Amazon and Microsoft are putting their fortunes into little-known fusion energy companies. Jonathan Frochtzwajg digs into a story that has strange parallels with fiction. Inside a laboratory near Vancouver in British Columbia, an alarm is blaring. In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what … Read more

Prachatai.org John Draper April 22, 2016 Foreword The below lead op ed column, written with Dr. Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, a former dean of the College of Local Administration at Khon Kaen University, was published in the Bangkok Post on April 18, 2016. It notes that EMC2, a private company historically backed by the US Navy, DARPA, … Read more

VOA George Putic | April 22, 2016 All today’s nuclear power plants make energy by thge splitting of uranium atoms — which creates a lot of useful heat but also a lot of dangerous and deadly nuclear waste. The opposite process — fusion — also creates heat but with hardly any pesky radiation. The problem … Read more