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New probe to uncover mechanisms key to fusion reactor walls

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton University to learn precisely what happens when extremely hot plasmas touch and ...

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created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

States agree new funding, schedule for nuclear fusion plan

The European Union and six states backing a multi-billion-dollar nuclear fusion project said Wednesday they had reached a deal on the financing and timetable for the experimental reactor.

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created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 13

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 ...

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Physicists see solution to critical barrier to fusion

(Phys.org) -- Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

NSTX project will produce world's most powerful spherical torus

DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Tokamak experiments come clean about impurity transport

A fusion reactor operates best when the hot plasma inside it consists only of fusion fuel (hydrogen's heavy isotopes, deuterium and tritium), much as a car runs best with a clean engine. But fusion fuel reactions ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Feeling the heat: 30 tons of fine control for fusion plasmas

A major upgrade to the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor operated by General Atomics in San Diego will enable it to develop fusion plasmas that can burn indefinitely. Researchers installed a movable, 30-ton particle-beam ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

I-mode powers up on alcator C-mod tokamak

A key challenge in producing fusion energy is confining the plasma long enough for the ionized hydrogen to fuse and produce net power. Suppressing plasma turbulence is one approach to this, but the resulting ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Unexpected connection: Rotation reversal tied to energy confinement saturation

Research on the Alcator C-Mod experiment at MIT has made an unexpected connection between two seemingly unrelated but important phenomena observed in tokamak plasmas: spontaneous plasma rotation and the global ...

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created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Video simulation puts a new twist on fusion plasma research

Samuel Lazerson, an associate research physicist in advanced projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has created a video simulation showing the intricate nature of a plasma ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fusion researchers see frozen pellet tech as way to control ITER's plasma as well as fuel it

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heated to extreme temperatures of up to 150 million degrees Celsius, the plasma in ITER's giant experimental fusion reactor will be fed a fuel of frozen pellets of deuterium-tritium, fired ...

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 51

Part I: The energy that drives the stars comes closer to Earth

Nuclear fusion drives the stars, including our sun. But on Earth, despite efforts dating to the 1940s, sustained and controlled fusion for electrical power production has never been realized. Research persists, ...

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created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

World's largest fusion device goes back to work

September is commonly the month where things begin to gather pace again, and in the world of fusion energy research, things are no different. European scientists working on the Joint European Torus (JET), ...

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created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 20


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