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world-nuclear-news.org The first of some 250 “exceptional loads” has been delivered to the construction site of the Iter fusion reactor project at Cadarache in southern France. The high-voltage transformer was manufactured in South Korea. The transformer begins its voyage by barge from Fos-sur-Mer across the Gulf of Fos, through the Canal de Caronte, and finally … Read more
“Fusion Plasma Physics in Magnetic Fusion,” Lecture by DJ Campbell Part 1 Part 2
sciencemag By Adrian Cho 2 July 2014 ITER, under construction Budgetmakers in the U.S. Senate have moved to halt U.S. participation in ITER, the huge international fusion experiment now under construction in Cadarache, France, that aims to demonstrate that nuclear fusion could be a viable source of energy. Although the details are not available, Senate … Read more
CEA.com 18 February 2025 1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in … Read more
WEST, the tokamak run by the CEA. Credit: L. Godard/CEA. ZME Science Feb. 21, 2025 Researchers in France have set an impressive new record. For 22 breathtaking minutes, blazing-hot plasma swirled inside the WEST tokamak, setting a new world record for plasma duration. A tokamak is one of the most promising designs for a fusion … Read more
Live Science Jan. 21, 2025 A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor on Jan. 15, 2025 in China. (Image credit: Zhang Dagang/VCG via Getty Images) China‘s “artificial sun” … Read more
Sabine Hossenfelder How close is nuclear fusion to break-even? If you trust the headlines we’re getting close and the international project ITER is going to be the first to produce energy from fusion power. But not so fast. Scientists have, accidentally or deliberately, come to use a very misleading quantity to measure their progress. Unfortunately … Read more
Improbable Matter refutes some very optimistic claims about fusion power and discuss some of the challenges in making this long-sought after technology a reality. References [1] https://www.powermag.com/fusion-energ… [2] https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/research/step/ [3] https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/ Version from 21 April 2021 at: [ 4] https://web.archive.org/web/202104211… [5] https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/cla… [6] https://firstlightfusion.com/media-ar… [7] https://www.universetoday.com/115411/… [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYCl… [9] Frankfurt Airport Timelapse by TheBlueMaxxx https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… … Read more
David Chandler | MIT News Office September 8, 2021 New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power. t was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped … Read more
By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President EnergyCite and ClimateCite Where does energy on our planet come from? There are three primary sources of material amounts of energy on Earth. The word material means an amount of energy greater than 2 % of total worldwide energy demand combining all sectors of transportation, industrial, commercial residential, … Read more