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South China Morning Post Stephen Chen Feb.5, 2016 Chinese scientists were able to heat plasma to three times the temperature of the core of our sun for a record-breaking 102 seconds as they progressed the search to derive energy from nuclear fusion. Photo: Wikipedia In a doughnut-shaped chamber in eastern China, scientists have been able … Read more
Chinese Academy of Sciences Feb 05, 2016 A team of Chinese scientists in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province, has made an unprecedented breakthrough on an energy generation device that will make it one step closer to transform energy into stable, sustainable and controllable resources. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device, … Read more
CBC By Bob McDonald, Feb 05, 2016 The ITER fusion test reactor under construction in France. German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the startup button on a new fusion reactor this week, raising hopes that truly clean energy may finally be only a decade or so away. It’s a promise that’s been ’10 years away’ for … Read more
Daily Mail By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD, Feb 6th 2016 Test was conducted on a magnetic fusion reactor known as EAST Chinese team were able to maintain 50 million°C for 102 seconds The breakthrough that could someday make fusion power a reality Last week Germany used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 … Read more
CBC News The Associated Press Posted: Feb 03, 2016 Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Greifswald successfully generated a plasma for a fraction of a second A plant creates plasma from hydrogen for the first time, at the Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research centre of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany, Wednesday Feb. … Read more
IEEE Spectrum By Alexander Hellemans 3 Feb 2016 Hydrogen plasma navigates the tortuous turns of the stellarator. Today the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a ceremony at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma physics in Greifswald in Germany, pressed a button that caused a two-megawatt pulse of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 … Read more
Independent Frank Jordans Feb. 3, 2016 Scientists in Germany are set to begin an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.” Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald will heat a tiny amount of hydrogen until it becomes a super-hot gas known … Read more
Geekwire BY ALAN BOYLE on January 29, 2016 Plasma glows inside EMC2 Fusion’s test device during a high-energy shot in 2013. (Credit: EMC2 Fusion) After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with an unorthodox concept for nuclear fusion power plants. The concept is … Read more
Science News Jan. 29, 2016 by Alan Boyle Magazine issue: Vol. 189, No. 3, February 6, 2016, p. 18 Startups bring a new attitude to the energy quest — will it be enough? RENEGADE FUSION Private-sector startups, like General Fusion, are betting they can develop an energy source for the future faster than government-funded projects. … Read more
LANL Glen Wurden in the stellarator’s vacuum vessel during camera installation in 2014. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 27, 2015—Since the world’s largest superconducting magnetic fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, went online in December, innovative new imaging systems designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory are helping physicists peer into the roiling world of superhot plasmas … Read more