Of Interest archive
2013
12 Oct 2013
Why not build a miniature fusion device in your lab?
If you want to study nuclear fusion, why not build a miniature fusion device in your lab? Last week, first fusion reactions were produced…
11 Oct 2013
Japan's stimulus package showers science with cash
Three years ago, the picture for research funding in Japan looked bleak. As part of efforts to slash the national budget by ¥3 trillion (US…
10 Oct 2013
More on the ITER HQ inauguration
A video of the ITER HQ inauguration is availablehere (Source: ITER Organization) The live interview of French Minister…
9 Oct 2013
DG Motojima on Russian TV "Spotlight"
On the occasion of his December visit to Russia, ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima was the guest of Spotlight, the 26-minute daily…
8 Oct 2013
Fusion to propel ships?
A researcher at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor by inertial confinement that, apart from…
7 Oct 2013
The night Santa Claus came to fusion
Staffers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) had more than the holidays to celebrate this…
6 Oct 2013
PPPL physicists win supercomputing time
Three teams led by scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have won major blocks of…
5 Oct 2013
New study says nuclear will be "major contributor" to Europe's energy mix
Nuclear energy will remain a "prime candidate" as Europe considers its options for the decarbonization of its energy mix, according to a…
4 Oct 2013
Fusion helped by collision science
In ITER, beryllium will enter the plasma because it is one of the constituent materials of the fusion chamber walls. The walls…
3 Oct 2013
Fields Medal Cedric Villani speaks of ITER on French national radio
Fields Medal Cedric Villani, who visited the ITER site on Thursday 20 December, was the guest of national public radio France Inter …
2 Oct 2013
Susana Reyes receives 2012 Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award
Susana Reyes, a former ITER staff member now working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been selected to receive…
1 Oct 2013
Could fusion clean up nuclear waste?
What if you could help solve the nuclear waste problem and at the same time give fusion research a new raison d'être? A trio of physicists…
30 Sep 2013
1,200 coal plants projected in 59 countries
According to a World Resources Institute study by Ailun Yang and Yiyun Cui, 1,199 new coal-fired plants, with a total installed…
29 Sep 2013
Germany faces multibillion-euro grid bill
The massive expansion of Germany's electricity networks to cope with the country's transition away from nuclear to a high share of…
28 Sep 2013
Swiss TCV Tokamak celebrates 20th birthday
Twenty years ago, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) President B. Vittoz clicked on a virtual button that…
27 Sep 2013
Setting an example
Convinced that the ITER installation is safe, the French government recently granted the fusion project the necessary permission to…
26 Sep 2013
The promise of fusion power
By Matthew Hole, Plasma Research Laboratory, Australian National University In the search for new energy sources, one area with…
25 Sep 2013
Fast and tricky to catch
At the heart of deuterium-tritium fusion is the neutron. Each fusion event produces neutrons with an enormous amount of energy—14.1…
24 Sep 2013
All these lights!
All these lights! Scientists unveiled last week an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image,…
23 Sep 2013
Gazprom moves on helium demand
Gazprom moves on helium demand MOSCOW. Blimps long ago lost their value as a means of cargo transportation, military reconnaissance, or…