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Nuclear experts seek to advance ITER fusion project

An explosion in costs has cast a cloud over a multi-billion-dollar nuclear fusion project aiming to make the power that fuels the sun a practical energy source on Earth.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 26

Advancing the nuclear enterprise through better computing

Scientists at the Nuclear Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are merging decades of nuclear energy and safety expertise with high-performance computing ...

Technology / Other

created May 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

N.Korea boasts success in nuclear fusion

North Korea on Wednesday claimed it had carried out a nuclear fusion reaction that could lead to a limitless supply of clean energy -- a process that the world's scientists have so far yet to achieve.

Physics / General Physics

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 31

New project aims for fusion ignition

Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Doubts raised on nuclear industry viability

(PhysOrg.com) -- The investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (24) | comments 19 weblog

Nuclear fusion power project to start in 2018: official

An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, will begin operation in southern France in 2018, the project's governing body announced Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (36) | comments 58

Nuclear fusion power project to start in slimmed-down version

A multi-billion-dollar project to prove whether nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, can be a practicable energy source is to be scaled down in its early stages, sources said on Monday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 15

European fusion computer comes to Julich

A new supercomputer will help us to understand the complex physical effects taking place inside the ITER fusion reactor. The computer known as HPC-FF will deliver computing power of about 100 teraflop/s and is optimally suited ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientist receives massive computing project award to develop magnetic fusion energy

Choong-Seock Chang, a research professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has received a Department of Energy (DOE) award to carry out ultra large-scale computation using the Cray XT supercomputer ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9


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