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Of Interest archive

2016

14 Oct 2016

Mockup deck tests successfully at high voltage lab

At a specialized laboratory in Germany, electrical tests have been successfully performed on a 1/15th scale mockup of the high voltage deck…
10 Oct 2016

Neutrons for DEMO

A new acronym is making its way into the fusion landscape: DONES, for DEMO Oriented Neutron Source. In Europe, a roadmap* for the…
10 Oct 2016

Timelapse of coil manufacturing activities on site

In the Poloidal Field Coil Winding Facility, on site at ITER, fabrication of a qualification mockup of poloidal field coil #5 (17…
3 Oct 2016

The making of poloidal field coil #1

At the Srednenevsky shipyard, on the Neva River near Saint Petersburg (Russia), manufacturing work is underway on ITER's poloidal…
3 Oct 2016

ITER Japan makes book donation

The Japanese Domestic Agency has delivered a large number of books and teaching materials to the Japanese section of the Provence-Alpes…
3 Oct 2016

Learn plasma physics, on line

For the third year in a row, the Swiss Plasma Center is offering a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on plasma physics. The popular…
26 Sep 2016

Princeton lab director steps down

Prof. Stewart Prager, a world-renowned plasma physicist and passionate voice for a future of clean, abundant and benign energy fueled by…
26 Sep 2016

Last shipment for the cryostat base

The last shipment of cryostat base segments (three segments/120 tonnes each) left Hazira, India on 2 September. Prior to being shipped, on…
19 Sep 2016

A computing powerhouse turns on in Italy

Marconi-Fusion, the new high performance computer for fusion applications, was inaugurated on 14 September 2016 at the CINECA…
19 Sep 2016

Summer school: diagnostics for ITER and DEMO

From 28 April to 4 May 2017, the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice, Sicily, will host the 16th edition of the…
15 Sep 2016

Manufacturing milestone in Russia

At the Srednenevsky Shipbuilding Plant in Russia, technicians have completed the winding operations for the first poloidal field double…
13 Sep 2016

Steel to capture the sun

Temperatures of over hundred million degrees centigrade and high energy neutrons and alpha particles that blast everything to shreds. What…
12 Sep 2016

Crowd comes out for the 2016 ITER Games

On Saturday 10 September, close to 450 participants met near ITER, in Vinon-sur-Verdon, for a number of sporting events designed to…
12 Sep 2016

Massive transformers ready for shipment

The last of three electrical transformers have successfully passed factory acceptance tests in China and are ready for shipment. China is…
5 Sep 2016

China-Japan-Korea collaboration meeting

For the third year in a row, representatives of the ITER Domestic Agencies of China, Japan and Korea met to report on progress in the…
5 Sep 2016

Princeton fusion lab goes EAST

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been named principal investigator for a multi-institutional project to study plasma…
2 Sep 2016

Chirping: not a desirable quality in plasmas

"Chirp, chirp, chirp." The familiar sound of birds is also what researchers call a wave in plasma that breaks from a single note into…
30 Aug 2016

New books on magnetic fusion energy and plasma physics

Magnetic fusion energy and the plasma physics that underlies it are the topics of ambitious new books by Hutch Neilson, head of the…
3 Aug 2016

Quest Magazine: Here comes the Sun

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has just released the annual edition of Quest, the laboratory's research magazine. This…
18 Jul 2016

Using plasmas to create nanomaterials

Plasma—the hot ionized gas that fuels fusion reactions—can also create super-small particles used in everything from pharmaceuticals to…