Software upgrade helping to answer DEMO questions

Software upgrade helping to answer DEMO questions

CCFE 27/02/2018 CCFE’s fusion power plant studies are set to benefit from an upgrade to key software code PROCESS. The project to modernise PROCESS is driving greater partnership with fusion researchers abroad as well as making it easier to navigate for key users. Culham researchers use the code to answer complex questions about the design … Read more

One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

Dartmouth Journal of Undergraduate Science February 24, 2018 | Ted Northup According to a recent report on nuclear fusion, scientists may have discovered an optimal model for regulating plasma turbulence while still achieving desired functional results. A Brazilian researcher, Vinicius Duarte of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, recently developed a conceptual regulation of plasma turbulence … Read more

Interview: Jonathan Carling, Tokamak Energy’s new CEO

Interview: Jonathan Carling, Tokamak Energy’s new CEO

The Engineer By Stuart Nathan 22nd February 2018 Tokamak Energy’s new CEO plans on using his commercial nous to get fusion-generated electricity on the National Grid by 2030 Energy generation by nuclear fusion is one of society’s biggest technological challenges. Decades after fusion was first demonstrated, there has been no obvious breakthrough on this front, … Read more

Nuclear Fusion Could Be A Silver Bullet — And Just Around The Corner

Nuclear Fusion Could Be A Silver Bullet — And Just Around The Corner

Forbes Ken Silverstein | FEB 12, 2018 The winding facility of the ITER ( the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), in the CEN of Cadarache, Private investors are now actively trying to commercialize an advanced form of nuclear energy and one that would leave no environmental footprint while also delivering electricity to the world’s expanding population. … Read more

Fusion Energy Consortium™

Fusion Energy Consortium™

The Fusion Energy Consortium is a member sponsored U.S. IRS Title 26 501(c)(3) compliant LLC established as a foundation to stimulate the science, research, and development leading to practical controlled nuclear fusion energy. What is Fusion Energy? Fusion energy is a potentially unlimited source of energy capable of producing baseload power for the world’s electrical … Read more

Integrated simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research

Integrated simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research

MIT News Leda Zimmerman | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering | February 16, 2018 Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations. Pablo Rodriguez Fernandez, first author of the study and a graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Photo: Borja Santos Porras To make … Read more

New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasma

New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasma

Phys.org February 13, 2018, American Institute of Physics Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a “reduced physics” fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected properties of the density profile inside a tokamak experiment. Modeling plasma’s turbulent behavior could help scientists optimize … Read more

Fusion Breakthroughs Among Highlights of the Department of Energy’s Research Milestones During the Past 40 Years

Fusion Breakthroughs Among Highlights of the Department of Energy’s Research Milestones During the Past 40 Years

DOE News Credit: Image courtesy of Office of Science. Celebrating four decades of landmark research milestones. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, the largest U.S. supporter of basic research in the physical sciences, celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding in 2017. To mark the 40th anniversary of Office of Science support … Read more

Fusion energy using tokamaks: can development be accelerated?

Fusion energy using tokamaks: can development be accelerated?

Royal Society Register for the conference Conference in London on March 26 & 27, 2018 Location The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG Overview Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Colin Windsor FRS, Professor Dennis Whyte, Dr Jack Connor FRS, Dr Melanie Windridge and Professor Guenter Janeschitz. Fusion power is one … Read more

Minnie – A Proposed Feature Film to Stimulate Fusion Energy Research and Development

Minnie  –  A Proposed Feature Film to Stimulate Fusion Energy Research and Development

Atul’s Earth 14 February 2018 MINNIE is a feature film script with an environmental theme that reached the semi-final of Screencraft’s International Screenwriting Competition, 2015. Please click the video file below to see the trailer. The feature length version has not yet been made. Please read the article below and contact me if you would … Read more