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Of Interest archive

2013

11 Dec 2013

Journey to the centre of the torus

It sounds like a kind of gothic torture—being put in a large bucket and lowered into a 9m-deep hole at the centre of a huge machine. But it…
10 Dec 2013

IEA warns: world is not on track to limit temperature increase to 2°C

Warning that the world is not on track to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
9 Dec 2013

At 25 Tore Supra is looking WESTward

JET turns 30 this year, but its smaller cousin Tore Supra, in France, is close behind, celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Tore…
8 Dec 2013

Memoirs from Sandia's Z Machine

The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course…
7 Dec 2013

Marseille's MuCEM offers bridge between Mediterranean, Europe

Architect Rudy Ricciotti, who designed the ITER Hedaquarters in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, makes headlines as his latest creation, the Musée…
6 Dec 2013

Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, dies at 79: was first to "see" atoms

Heinrich Rohrer, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a microscope that made it possible to see individual atoms and…
5 Dec 2013

Last steel seam on Wendelstein 7-X closed

The last open seam on the steel outer cover of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device was closed last week. The core of the research device is…
4 Dec 2013

Fusion Day held at EPFL in Switzerland

Friday 17 May was Fusion Day at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL. On the program: a conference to discuss the…
3 Dec 2013

Senators oppose pending shutdown of MIT fusion experiment

The plan to shut down a nuclear fusion experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a year and news that half the project's…
2 Dec 2013

Could 10 Tesla superconductors accelerate fusion development?

A new generation of 10 tesla uperconductors could make Tokamak style nuclear fusion reactors work. It could make them affordable, smaller,…
1 Dec 2013

PPPL recognized as first in NJ environmental stewardship

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been recognized as the top facility in the state for environmental stewardship by the…
30 Nov 2013

Why don't we have fusion power?

Fusion energy, simply, is the exact opposite of fission energy, which comes from splitting an atom and is widely used to power nuclear…
29 Nov 2013

NIF provides backdrop for new Star Trek film

The makers of "Star Trek: Into Darkness" went boldly where few have gone before when they visited Lawrence Livermore National…
28 Nov 2013

Slovenian crowds get to the heart of ITER and JET

"Can we extract energy from water?" was the question that attracted a rapt crowd to Slovenia's Jozef Stefan Institute, during their recent…
27 Nov 2013

Fusion program at MIT is ending

A long-running Massachusetts Institute of Technology research experiment that explores nuclear fusion as a possible energy source will shut…
26 Nov 2013

And the 2013 Fusion Technology Award goes to ...

... Phil Heitzenroeder, who leads the Mechanical Engineering Division at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory …
25 Nov 2013

15-year-old addresses letter to ITER

Tom Slattery, a 15-year-old from the UK, recently enjoyed a visit to the ITER site with his parents. Upon returning home, he addressed…
24 Nov 2013

Creativity and the next generation

Creativity—The Next Generation is a subject dear to the Fusion community's heart, and is also the 2013 theme of International Intellectual…
23 Nov 2013

Stellarators open up a whole new 3D world for MAST

Getting a complete picture of how plasmas perform in MAST has just become easier—thanks to expertise borrowed from a very different type of…
22 Nov 2013

One giant leap for mankind

An idyllic hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has become the site of an ambitious attempt to…