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Of Interest archive

2014

31 Oct 2014

October issue of F4E News

The latest issue of the European Domestic Agency's newsletter, F4ENews, has just been released. You can consult it here.
29 Oct 2014

Scientists use plasma shaping to control turbulence in stellarators

​Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in…
29 Oct 2014

Using radio waves to control the density in a fusion plasma

​Recent fusion experiments on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics (California, US) and the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT (Massachusetts,…
27 Oct 2014

Upcoming colloquium on TFTR record fusion power shot

​Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is organizing a colloquium on TFTR  record fusion power shot of December 1993. More…
27 Oct 2014

New Advisory Board to promote project and safety culture at ITER

​In order to improve project performance and in light of the ITER Project's specific managerial and cultural complexities, an External…
23 Oct 2014

Puzzling new behavior found in high-temperature superconductors

​Research by an international team led by SLAC and Stanford scientists has uncovered a new, unpredicted behavior in a copper oxide material…
20 Oct 2014

Latest news from Korea's fusion research program

​In the latest newsletter published by Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), read how the KSTAR tokamak has topped 10,000…
17 Oct 2014

Russia and China to develop hybrid reactor

​Russia is developing a hybrid nuclear reactor that uses both nuclear fusion and fission, said head of leading nuclear research facility…
17 Oct 2014

Manufacturing for acceleration grid power supplies has started in India

​Manufacturing is underway in India for the acceleration grid power supplies that will be supplied to the SPIDER test bed in Italy as well…
15 Oct 2014

Three hours with an ITER physicist on web radio

The German science and engineering website Tau Omega recently featured a three-hour audio interview of ​ITER physicist Richard Pitts…
15 Oct 2014

General Atomics physicist gets top fusion award

​A General Atomics physicist has won one of the most prestigious awards in fusion energy research, it was announced this week at a major…
13 Oct 2014

World's largest fusion conference opens in St. Petersburg

The 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014) will be held from 13 to 18 October 2014 in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation. …
13 Oct 2014

Sandia's Z machine makes progress toward nuclear fusion

​Scientists are reporting a significant advance in the quest to develop an alternative approach to nuclear fusion. Researchers at Sandia…
13 Oct 2014

Latest "Fusion in Europe" is out

​The autumn issue of Fusion in Europe is available for download at this link. The 20-page issue covers the recent launch of EUROfusion …
10 Oct 2014

EFDA becomes EUROfusion

​On 9 October 2014 the European Commission officially launched the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, EUROfusion for…
7 Oct 2014

Divertor cassette replaced by remote control at VTT Finland

​VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has reached an important objective in the development of ITER fusion reactor remote control, when…
6 Oct 2014

F4E business forum announced

The European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy (F4E), is organizing a major business event from 10 to 12 June 2015. The…
6 Oct 2014

WEST Newsletter #6 is out

The Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, ITER's neighbour in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, has published issue #6 of the WEST newsletter…
3 Oct 2014

New European innovation award goes to KIT researchers

German researchers Christian Day and Thomas Giegerich from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are the first recipients of the…
1 Oct 2014

European Commission launches EUROfusion

​On 9 October 2014 the European Commission invites the fusion community into the heart of the European Quarter, the Solvay Library, to…