Of Interest archive
2015
20 Apr 2015
Another day, another transformer...
Same component, same origin, same route: the second of four high voltage transformers procured by the US and manufactured in Korea reached…
20 Apr 2015
MAST-Upgrade coil installation completed
An important milestone has been reached on the MAST-Upgrade project, with the re-installation of four of the largest magnetic coils…
15 Apr 2015
Studying plasma physics online
The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is presenting the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on plasma physics and its…
15 Apr 2015
News from JT-60 SA
The mission of the JT-60SA tokamak (based in Naka, Japan, and financed jointly by Europe and Japan) is to contribute to the…
11 Apr 2015
"Father of the modern flywheel" dies at 96
Lawrence Livermore Lab physicist Richard "Dick" Post, the "father of the modern flywheel" who worked at the lab for 63 years, died Tuesday…
10 Apr 2015
China's KTX will produce 1st plasma in June
In its April issue, the newsletter from the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) focuses on KTX, the reverse…
8 Apr 2015
12th International Workshop on Beryllium Technology
The 12th Workshop on Beryllium Technology will be held from 10 to 12 September 2015 on Jeju Island, South Korea. The objective of this…
6 Apr 2015
Proton beams are back in CERN's Large Hadron Collider
After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider…
6 Apr 2015
Investigating "magnetic reconnection"
By Raphael Rosen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS), a set of four spacecraft…
4 Apr 2015
10 years old and counting on its 50,000 processors
When ITER scientists needed to simulate how particles travel and transport radiation in the ITER machine, they bought time in one of the…
2 Apr 2015
The stellarator as an alternative concept
Collaboration in European fusion research has a long history. In 1961, the Max Plank Institute of Plasma Physics became an associate of the…
30 Mar 2015
Industry Information Day for Assembly & Installation
The ITER Organization is hosting an Industrial Information Day on 21 May 2015 to present the scope and the procurement program of the ITER…
27 Mar 2015
2015 Alfvén Prize in plasma physics awarded
The European Physical Society (EPS) has named Princeton physicist Nat Fisch winner of the 2015 Hannes Alfvén Prize, awarded for outstanding…
23 Mar 2015
Making the invisible...visible
One of the biggest challenges facing fusion physicists is controlling the plasma inside a tokamak reactor. Plasma — a gas of the…
16 Mar 2015
Culham science centre inspires artists
Think science and art are poles apart? Think again. Three artists who have been inspired by nuclear fusion will display their work at…
16 Mar 2015
IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research
The next Fusion Summer University at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)will be held in Garching (near Munich) from 14…
2 Mar 2015
European-made pressure vessels ready for JT-60SA tokamak
A few years before ITER is due to come into operation, the advanced superconducting "satellite" tokamak JT-60SA, conducted under the…
2 Mar 2015
Big Science: What's it worth?
Knowledge is not cheap. The world spends more than $1 trillion a year on research and development, including basic research. The biggest…
26 Feb 2015
Size matters in European materials project
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is one of the partners in a materials research project that has recently been awarded significant…
23 Feb 2015
February issue of F4E Newsletter now online
The February issue of Fusion for Energy newsletter is now online. Find out how contractors feel about ITER's business potential, read…