Fusion Energy, Fusion Energy Consortium
November 20, 2015 Fusion power has been making a lot of progress lately. That doesn’t necessarily mean any one approach has gotten a whole lot closer to its end goal of useful ignition and net energy production, but that many new, innovative attempts at achieving that same goal have all advanced to a point of … Read more
European Energy Review 16 November 2015 By Dr David Kingham A hot plasma in the START spherical tokamak built at Culham Laboratory in the 1990s. START set a world record for the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure which still stands today. Europe has a great history in fusion research. It was the Englishman … Read more
Eureka Magazine Justin Cunningham 14 July 2015 The challenge to produce clean and sustainable power for future generations is an intimidating one. While fusion power offers the tantalising possibility, it is tomorrow’s technology that is at least 30 years away… and it seems always will be. In all reality, however, it will be far more … Read more
SPIE Heinrich Hora 14 July 2015 A laser-driven technique to ignite hydrogen-boron fuel offers the possibility of nuclear fusion for clean, sustainable energy generation. For more than 70 years, scientists have sought to harness energy from nuclear fusion as the ultimate sustainable power source. Initially, they considered fusion of heavy and very heavy hydrogen isotopes … Read more
IEEE Spectrum By Mark Anderson 18 Nov 2015 Physicists pin their hopes on new magnets and fast lasers Focus FusionClean Lines- The pure tungsten electrodes inside LPP’s dense-plasma-focus device resist the vaporization that would add unwanted atoms to the fusion reactions- The past few months have proved that hope for nuclear fusion as the ultimate … Read more
How to create Sun on Earth? What are the principles that ITER and Wendelstein 7-X operate on?
extremetech.com By Graham Templeton on November 12, 2015 The first major fusion collaboration between Chinese and US research teams has released a surprising finding on the future of magnetic confinement fusion: by lowering the distance between the plasma and the wall of the chamber that contains it, they can actually make the system more stable. … Read more
phys.org Nov. 11, 2015 Groundbreaking US-China experiments continued in September between DIII-D, led by GA’s Dr. Andrea Garofalo (at center), and China’s ASIPP at the EAST fusion program, whose scientists connect via videoconferencing (pictured at left screen). At right is Huiqian Wang, an ASIPP post-doctoral scientist being trained at DIII-D. Credit: Lisa Petrillo/General Atomic The … Read more
Next Big Future November 11, 2015 Meet “Super H mode,” a newly discovered state of tokamak plasma that could sharply boost the performance of future fusion reactors. This new state raises the pressure at the edge of the plasma beyond what previously had been thought possible, creating the potential to increase the power production of … Read more
