Of Interest archive
2019
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6 Mar 2019
"A Glass of Seawater!" podcast
What do you get when you mix three parts fusion doctoral training, two measures of outreach, many parts of information, and a final jigger…
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4 Mar 2019
"Planet ITER" stars in travelling exhibit
Established in December 1893, the monthly L'Usine nouvelle ("The New Factory") is one of the oldest French trade magazines. To celebrate…
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25 Feb 2019
IPP tungsten image wins science photo award
A photo of a specimen of tungsten-fibre-reinforced tungsten after a stress test won the first prize in science publisher Elsevier's "NuMart…
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25 Feb 2019
ITER goes manga 2.0
The sequel of the ITER manga is out. Taiyô Tenno, the young Japanese art student who had visited Provence and had been introduced to ITER…
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18 Feb 2019
This alloy has fusion in mind
A two-year campaign to test the resistance of EUROFER97 steel, financed by the European Domestic Agency, has just ended at the Nuclear…
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28 Jan 2019
How Europe benefits from ITER
A recent public hearing organized by the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament has shed a light on the significant impact…
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28 Jan 2019
Plasma webcam among world's "most interesting"
Thousands of live webcams throughout the world provide viewers with spectacular natural vistas, cityscapes and beaches, trendy bars and…
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21 Jan 2019
Raindrops and fiery sightings: new research from around the world
At the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), researcher Fulvio Militello is working on a statistical model that compares the seemingly…
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14 Jan 2019
A new Chair for EUROfusion's General Assembly
On October 9 2014, fusion research bodies from European Union member states and Switzerland signed an agreement to cement European…
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14 Jan 2019
Fusion Power Associates: Expectations through the 2020s
Every year in December, the annual meeting of the Fusion Power Associates brings together senior representatives of the US and…
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14 Jan 2019
Fusion world: A process that stabilizes plasmas
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in the US are reporting findings that can be beneficial to ITER, says John…
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7 Jan 2019
ITER Business Forum: register now
Registration is open now for the 2019 edition of the ITER Business Forum (IBF/2019) to be held in Antibes, France from 26 to 28 March…
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7 Jan 2019
Is fusion's future on the Moon?
Like mountaineers at the foot of Mount Everest, spacefaring nations have aimed for the Moon "because it's there." Now, close to 60 years…