Of Interest archive
2014
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31 Oct 2014
October issue of F4E News
The latest issue of the European Domestic Agency's newsletter, F4ENews, has just been released. You can consult it here.
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29 Oct 2014
Scientists use plasma shaping to control turbulence in stellarators
​Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in…
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29 Oct 2014
Using radio waves to control the density in a fusion plasma
​Recent fusion experiments on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics (California, US) and the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT (Massachusetts,…
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27 Oct 2014
Upcoming colloquium on TFTR record fusion power shot
​Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is organizing a colloquium on TFTR record fusion power shot of December 1993. More…
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27 Oct 2014
New Advisory Board to promote project and safety culture at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ
​In order to improve project performance and in light of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project's specific managerial and cultural complexities, an External…
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23 Oct 2014
Puzzling new behavior found in high-temperature superconductors
​Research by an international team led by SLAC and Stanford scientists has uncovered a new, unpredicted behavior in a copper oxide material…
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20 Oct 2014
Latest news from Korea's fusion research program
​In the latest newsletter published by Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), read how the KSTAR tokamak has topped 10,000…
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17 Oct 2014
Russia and China to develop hybrid reactor
​Russia is developing a hybrid nuclear reactor that uses both nuclear fusion and fission, said head of leading nuclear research facility…
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17 Oct 2014
Manufacturing for acceleration grid power supplies has started in India
​Manufacturing is underway in India for the acceleration grid power supplies that will be supplied to the SPIDER test bed in Italy as well…
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15 Oct 2014
Three hours with an °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ physicist on web radio
The German science and engineering website Tau Omega recently featured a three-hour audio interview of ​°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ physicist Richard Pitts…
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15 Oct 2014
General Atomics physicist gets top fusion award
​A General Atomics physicist has won one of the most prestigious awards in fusion energy research, it was announced this week at a major…
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13 Oct 2014
World's largest fusion conference opens in St. Petersburg
The 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014) will be held from 13 to 18 October 2014 in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation. …
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13 Oct 2014
Sandia's Z machine makes progress toward nuclear fusion
​Scientists are reporting a significant advance in the quest to develop an alternative approach to nuclear fusion. Researchers at Sandia…
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13 Oct 2014
Latest "Fusion in Europe" is out
​The autumn issue of Fusion in Europe is available for download at this link. The 20-page issue covers the recent launch of EUROfusion …
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10 Oct 2014
EFDA becomes EUROfusion
​On 9 October 2014 the European Commission officially launched the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, EUROfusion for…
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7 Oct 2014
Divertor cassette replaced by remote control at VTT Finland
​VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has reached an important objective in the development of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ fusion reactor remote control, when…
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6 Oct 2014
F4E business forum announced
The European Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, Fusion for Energy (F4E), is organizing a major business event from 10 to 12 June 2015. The…
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6 Oct 2014
WEST Newsletter #6 is out
The Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ's neighbour in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, has published issue #6 of the WEST newsletter…
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3 Oct 2014
New European innovation award goes to KIT researchers
German researchers Christian Day and Thomas Giegerich from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are the first recipients of the…
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1 Oct 2014
European Commission launches EUROfusion
​On 9 October 2014 the European Commission invites the fusion community into the heart of the European Quarter, the Solvay Library, to…