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Of Interest archive

2016

26 May 2016

ITER @ Atoms for the Future

The ITER Organization will participate in this year's international symposium Atoms for the Future—the annual meeting of students and young…
23 May 2016

Launch of newest US fusion experiment, NSTX-U

US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz dedicated the most powerful spherical torus fusion facility in the world on 20 May…
23 May 2016

30 companies on site for latest Industrial Info Day

During an Industrial Info Day on 20 May, the ITER Organization presented an upcoming tender for electrical, cabling, instrumentation and…
23 May 2016

Princeton University produces a "distillate" on fusion

A new energy technology "distillate" has been published by Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment on…
23 May 2016

Vacuum piping contract signed

On 28 April, the ITER Organization signed a contract with the European consortium GNMS for the procurement of approximately 10 km of vacuum…
18 May 2016

Wanted: university grads from Europe

Are you a university graduate who wants to gain international professional experience and contribute to the work of the European Domestic…
13 May 2016

BBC Radio explores fusion and ITER

If new energy sources offer cheap, plentiful power to everyone, how will the planet cope? FutureProofing examines a new method of power…
13 May 2016

Liquid lithium to protect tokamak walls?

--By John Greenwald A promising experiment that encloses hot, magnetically confined plasma in a full wall of liquid lithium is…
9 May 2016

Journal "Nature Physics" produces an Insight on nuclear fusion

In its May 2016 issue, Nature Physics has produced an Insight on Nuclear Fusion that features an interview with ITER Director-General…
9 May 2016

Human-robot teams to operate inside fusion device

Watch humans and robots work together inside the JET mockup at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the UK. Video via Tom Scott…
9 May 2016

Improving predictions of the "bootstrap current"

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have challenged the understanding of a key…
9 May 2016

India delivers power supply components to testbed

Another shipment of in-kind components from India has arrived at the PRIMA neutral beam test facility in Padua, Italy. At PRIMA, ITER…
2 May 2016

Using fusion gyrotrons to drill rock?

A senior researcher at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) in the US is using a gyrotron, a specialized radio-frequency (RF) wave…
2 May 2016

Promising experiments on ASDEX Upgrade

The ASDEX-Upgrade team at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching, Germany is experimenting with a new mode of…
26 Apr 2016

"Fusion in Europe" seeks writers for a special summer issue

EUROfusion, the coordinating body for fusion research activities in Europe, is seeking student writers to contribute to the summer issue of…
25 Apr 2016

ITER Project on stage in China

On April 6, 2016, the largest-scale nuclear industry exhibition in China opened its doors and the ITER Project was there. For four days,…
11 Apr 2016

Princeton scientists help test innovative device to improve tokamak efficiency

--By Raphael Rosen Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a…
4 Apr 2016

First WEST Experiment Planning Meeting

WEST's international call for modelling and experimental proposals was successfully completed on 15 March 2016 with more than 150 proposals…
4 Apr 2016

An award for ITER security head

At the first edition of the Security Meetings exhibition in Cannes, France, on 22-24 March 2016, ITER Head of Security,…
3 Apr 2016

A view from industry

Cooling 10,000 tons of superconducting magnets that will confine the energy-generating plasma is indispensable to the proper…