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Of Interest archive

2016

16 Dec 2016

Fusion issue of "Europhysics News"

Europhysics News has produced a special issue on nuclear fusion and plasma physics (Volume 47/No 5-6, September-December 2016). The issue…
16 Dec 2016

Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

Stefan Gerhardt (left), principal research physicist and head of experimental operations on the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade…
12 Dec 2016

Rehearsing for the big performance at JET

Even the greatest performers need rehearsals ... and JET is no exception. Scientists and engineers at the world's largest operating tokamak…
12 Dec 2016

FOM to tame the flame

The FOM Institute DIFFER, in the Netherlands, is starting a large research program to investigate one of the most fundamental…
5 Dec 2016

Basement tanks on order for Tritium Plant

The European Domestic Agency for ITER has awarded a contract to Equipos Nucleares SA (ENSA, Spain) for the supply of two holding tanks and…
5 Dec 2016

Walking through JET's vacuum vessel

For the first time in twenty years, a tokamak will experiment with nuclear plasmas. Ian Chapman, the recently appointed UKAEA Chief…
28 Nov 2016

WEST in starting monoblocks

After four years of non-stop work, the French tokamak Tore Supra has now become WEST,the tungsten (W) Environment Steady-state…
28 Nov 2016

Well-earned pause in activity for the JET tokamak

The 2015-2016 experimental campaign at the JET tokamak, Europe's flagship device, came to an end on 15 November with nearly all goals met,…
21 Nov 2016

Quadrillions of calculations per second for fusion

The Radiation Transport Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has won a prestigious award through the US DOE Innovative and Novel…
14 Nov 2016

First deliveries for centralized piping procurement

Less than one year ago, last December, the ITER Organization signed a large supply contract with W. Schulz GmbH in Germany for the…
14 Nov 2016

Plasma movement at 100,000 frames per second

Some of the most detailed images ever of a hot plasma inside a tokamak have been captured at MAST, the spherical tokamak device at the…
14 Nov 2016

Rich Hawryluk will chair the editorial board of "Nuclear Fusion"

Physicist Richard Hawryluk of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been named chair of the board of editors of…
7 Nov 2016

Members of the European Parliament at ITER

Europe is responsible for the largest portion of ITER construction costs (45.6 percent); the remainder is shared equally by China, India,…
7 Nov 2016

NSTX-U spherical tokamak: first results

Following a four-year upgrade to double the magnetic field strength, plasma current and heating power capability of the NSTX spherical…
2 Nov 2016

In memoriam: physicist Paul Vandenplas

Professor Paul Vandenplas, emeritus professor of the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium and longtime proponent of nuclear fusion,…
26 Oct 2016

Australian Parliament: on Australia and ITER

One month ago, on 30 September, the ITER Organization signed a technical Cooperation Agreement with Australia, as represented by the…
25 Oct 2016

Newsletter launched by Dutch research institute DIFFER

At the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) research focuses on two major energy themes: fusion energy, and the…
24 Oct 2016

October flyover by drone

The European Domestic Agency has published a short flyover of the ITER worksite that was filmed in early October. Click here to see the…
17 Oct 2016

Fusion Energy Conference opens in Kyoto

The 26th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference kicked off today in Kyoto, Japan. The biennial rendezvous for fusion researchers from over 40…
17 Oct 2016

Gleaming beamlines for MAST Upgrade

The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) facility at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the UK is undergoing a major upgrade that, once…