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Of Interest archive

2017

23 Oct 2017

How bubbles at the edge of plasmas can reduce reaction efficiency

For hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium, the heat of the ultrahot plasma in the tokamak must be maintained. But, like boiling water, plasma…
23 Oct 2017

The promise of liquid lithium

Researchers led by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed an innovative design to improve the ability of future…
16 Oct 2017

Powering the world

According to the United States Energy Information Administration, the amount of energy supplied by all fuel sources across the…
13 Oct 2017

Experiments on the WEST tokamak should resume in October

The WEST project is based on an upgrade of the Tore Supra tokamak, in operation since 1988 in France (CEA- IRFM). With its new…
13 Oct 2017

Diagnostic sensors shown to resist neutrons

The European Domestic Agency has successfully tested prototypes of a specific type of magnetic diagnostic sensor at the Belgian SCK-CEN and…
9 Oct 2017

Fusion documentary opens Pariscience Film Festival

It was against the backdrop of the magnificent National Museum of Natural History where "Let there be Light" celebrated its most recent…
2 Oct 2017

Russia ships 85 tonnes of busbars

A third batch of electrotechnical equipment has left the port of Saint Petersburg, Russia, for delivery to ITER. On board are 85 tonnes of…
28 Sep 2017

New interim director for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Rich Hawryluk—who was Deputy Director-General for the Administration Department at the ITER Organization from 2011 to 2013—has been…
14 Sep 2017

Photo reportage of the KTM tokamak

The KTM tokamak, based at the National Nuclear Center in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan, is a small and versatile machine that is capable of…
4 Sep 2017

Russian firm is developing port plug test stands

ITER's vacuum vessel port plugs are critical components that seal the plasma chamber and allow experiments to take place in a high…
29 Aug 2017

Podcast on nuclear fusion and ITER from Bloomberg

The latest podcast from Decrypted by Bloomberg starts with the question: "How close are we to realizing the silver bullet for clean, cheap…
24 Aug 2017

PPPL physicist discovers that some plasma instabilities can extinguish themselves

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has for the first time used advanced models to accurately…
8 Aug 2017

Qualifying critical elements of the ITER divertor

The elements of the ITER divertor that will directly face the hot plasma must withstand a heat load that is estimated at ten times…
4 Aug 2017

In memoriam: Dr Yasuo Shimomura

We have learned with profound sadness of the passing of Dr Yasuo Shimomura, who served as ITER Deputy Director from the beginning of the…
3 Aug 2017

Exploring welding techniques for test blanket modules in Europe

In ITER, six technological solutions for tritium breeding—in the form of test blanket modules plus associated ancillary systems—will be…
26 Jul 2017

Ed Synakowski changes roles

Edmund Synakowski—the Associate Director of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fusion Energy Sciences and former ITER Council Vice…
26 Jul 2017

Miniature eyes for maintenance

At least 100 miniature cameras will be installed inside the ITER machine to act as the eyes for operators charged with machine maintenance…
10 Jul 2017

How hot is too hot?

To predict the impact of removing exhaust heat from the ITER Tokamak, researchers are calling on the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge…
3 Jul 2017

Diagnostic upgrade at TCV

At the Swiss Plasma Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, the TCV tokamak was recently shut down for an upgrade of its Thomson scattering…
26 Jun 2017

How to maintain the divertor?

Under contract with the European Domestic Agency, a team of experts has been working for more than a year to identify key technologies to…