Of Interest archive
2018
4 Jun 2018
EUROfusion seeks creative minds
Are you a writer or an artist interested in fusion? Then the latest call of EUROfusion, the European consortium of national fusion research…
28 May 2018
ITER at the Sustainable Energy Week
"Clean Energy for all Europeans" is the theme of this year's Sustainable Energy Week. Over 3,000 politicians, stakeholders, civil society…
28 May 2018
JET tokamak warming up
The first plasma pulse for almost 18 months took place inside of the JET tokamak in early May. The machine—the largest and most…
21 May 2018
Steven Cowley to head Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, has been named director of the U.S. Department of…
21 May 2018
An app for plasma physicists
San Diego-based General Atomics (GA) has published a new app to help physicists work out the characteristics of plasmas on the fly. Called…
21 May 2018
Tricky tungsten, cool divertors and more
The first Fusion in Europe of 2018 has been released. This quarterly magazine, published by the European consortium EUROfusion,…
11 May 2018
Online courses on plasma physics
The Swiss Plasma Center at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has updated its Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on…
11 May 2018
Prediction of tritium transport to support breeding blanket design
ITER will procure the tritium fuel necessary for its expected 20-year lifetime from the global inventory. But for DEMO, the next step on…
4 May 2018
3,000 tonnes of raw material procured for Europe's vacuum vessel sectors
All the steel material needed for the fabrication of the five European-procured sectors of the ITER vacuum vessel sectors has now been…
3 May 2018
US Congressman pens pro-fusion op-ed
Representative Lamar Smith, Chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee*, has penned a recent op-ed in RealClearPolicy…
23 Apr 2018
ITER satellite: torus assembly completed
The Satellite Tokamak Program, JT-60SA, is a major modification of the existing JT-60U tokamak at the Naka Fusion Institute in Japan…
23 Apr 2018
Young plasma physicists to be honoured in Prague
Every year, the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) grants up to four prizes to young scientists from the 38 EPS…
23 Apr 2018
Fusion pursuit (not so trivial)
A group of young fusion enthusiasts seems to be the first who managed to put the Sun in a box. In this case, though, the box is quite…
16 Apr 2018
55th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School
The 55th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School is open to applications. The school will cover fundamental plasma physics, as well as…
13 Apr 2018
Fusion pioneer Peter Thonemann dies at 100
Australian-born physicist Peter Thonemann died on 10 February 2018 at the age of 100. Thonemann was the leader of the ZETA fusion…
9 Apr 2018
ITER goes manga
Taiyô Tenno is a young Japanese student on a world tour of "art masterpieces"; Soléane is "a scientist at heart," presumably French, who…
9 Apr 2018
ITER well represented at Zvenigorod conference
The International Zvenigorod Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion is an annual rendezvous near Moscow for fusion research…
26 Mar 2018
All in a week's work for an intern
Drawing inspiration from the robotic tasks that will be faced at ITER during installation and maintenance activities, the annual ITER…
17 Mar 2018
ITER chief: I won't live to see benefits of fusion, but I will help us get there
Bernard Bigot, Director-General of the world's biggest nuclear fusion project, tells Brussels-based Science|Business the perpetually…
15 Mar 2018
Deep learning improves plasma disruption prediction
A research team at Princeton University has succeeded in significantly improving the quality of disruption predictions for a plasma in a…