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.
General Physics
Jul 26, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired new knowledge on ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 8, 2009
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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 ...
General Physics
Jan 16, 2009
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Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) organization and the Southwest Institute of Physics, ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 17, 2022
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Using Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMP), researchers led by Prof. Sun Youwen from the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took the lead in demonstrating the integrated Edge Localized Mode (ELM) ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 29, 2021
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After a decade of design and fabrication, General Atomics is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid, the world's most powerful magnet. It will become a central component of ITER, a machine that replicates ...
Plasma Physics
Jun 15, 2021
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A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device, an international experiment ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 28, 2020
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For the first time, scientists are measuring the rotation of the main (deuterium) plasma in the edge region of a fusion device. New spectroscopic measurements combined with state-of-the-art spectroscopic simulation made this ...
Plasma Physics
Feb 19, 2019
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The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun," achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees in its core plasma during a four-month experiment this year. That's ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 15, 2018
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Before scientists can capture and recreate the fusion process that powers the sun and stars to produce virtually limitless energy on Earth, they must first learn to control the hot plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions. ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 22, 2018
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