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Times of India Prashant Rupera,TNN | Apr 1, 2015 VADODARA: Nuclear energy production in India is set to get a major boost with the department of atomic energy (DAE) giving nod to set up the country’s own thermo-nuclear fusion reactor. India is presently one of the seven partner countries in world’s biggest energy research project … Read more
MIT News Peter Dunn | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering | March 23, 2015 Anne White, the Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Photo: Susan Young Engineering professor undertakes innovative research in reactor design while working toward the realization of nuclear fusion. Anne White has always relished challenges. As … Read more
A.E. Costley, J. Hugill and P.F. Buxton © 2015 IAEA, Vienna Received 14 July 2014, accepted for publication 14 November 2015 Published 28 January 2015 Contents Abstract Introduction System code Dependence of Qfus on plasma and device parameters Impact of beta-independent scaling Implications for the design of pilot plants and reactors Summary and conclusions Abstract … Read more
theForeigner Sunday, 22nd March, 2015 Fusion energy has been a dream for 60 years, but the future looks promising. Nuclear fusion is the joining of two or more atomic nuclei to form a new, distinct nucleus and in the process give off a very significant amount of energy. The energy given off does not contain … Read more
BostonCommons.net When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become “too cheap to meter,” he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom-splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today. [1] I think that nuclear fission plant should be … Read more
geraldschroeder.com Stephen Hawking, in his recent book, The Grand Design, breaks the news, bitter to some, that God was not needed to create the universe. Whether God was needed or necessary to facilitate the creation the universe is a question very different from was it God that created the universe. The latter relates to verifying … Read more
heartland.org March 3, 2015 H. STERLING BURNETT H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, most… (read full bio) Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona and ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, sent a letter to seven university presidents demanding … Read more
Bill Pasternak (WA6ITF) Writer / Producer, Etc. Back in the late 1980’s some of us had an idea for a educational ham radio based celebrity interview series that we titled “Today’s People.” The concept was quite simple: A teenage host would visit the home of a noteworthy ham radio operator. The two would sit and … Read more
Spanish language introduction to fusion energy and ITER with an extensive explanation and interview with Dr. Steve Cowley from the UK Culham Centre. Introducción al idioma español de la energía de fusión ITER y con una extensa explicación y la entrevista con el Dr. Steve Cowley del Centro Culham Reino Unido.
TokamakTales by Ailsa Sparkes, Friday, 27 February 2015 When some of the graduates went to the KIT summer school on Fusion technologies last year (see blog post here), David Ward from CCFE gave a talk entitled ‘Future Energy and the Role for Fusion’. As well as leading CCFE’s Power Plant Technology Unit, David works at … Read more