Of Interest archive
2016
11 Jan 2016
Impending storm or false alarm?
Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and…
8 Jan 2016
MAST tokamak: a year of progress in three minutes (video)
Momentum is building on the MAST Upgrade project at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the UK. When completed, the upgrade…
8 Jan 2016
How to start a tokamak without a solenoid?
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self-consistent computer simulations…
2015
22 Dec 2015
2015 highlights from US °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ
The 2015 roundup of news from the US °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project Office is now available online. US °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ achieved a number of project "firsts" for…
22 Dec 2015
News & views on fusion in Europe
Fusion in Europe is a regular magazine on the progress of fusion research published by the EUROfusion consortium. In the December 2015…
21 Dec 2015
An Advent calendar of fusion spinoffs
For the close of the year, EUROfusion—the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy—is highlighting 24 cutting-edge…
17 Dec 2015
A new fusion collaboration for MIT
Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community are cheering the start of a long-anticipated physics experiment at the…
14 Dec 2015
New deliveries from Russia
The Russian Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ reports that two shipments recently left factories in Saint Petersburg and Podolsk for the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ…
14 Dec 2015
EUROfusion Tony Donné advocates prolonged use of JET
On 4 December the Programme Manager of EUROfusion, Tony Donné, visited °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ and spoke to staff in the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ auditorium. EUROfusion is a…
7 Dec 2015
WEST milestone: divertor coil casings installed
The aim of the WEST project is to turn the Tore Supra tokamak (France) into a test bed for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ, with an actively cooled °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ-like…
4 Dec 2015
RACE is on for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ remote handling work
An 18-month development program to prototype remote handling tooling for the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ fusion device was demonstrated on 26 and 27 October as…
30 Nov 2015
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Council names new Chair
At its seventeenth meeting in November 2015, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Council named ​Won Namkung, from Korea, to succeed Robert Iotti as Chair effective 1…
30 Nov 2015
New mechanism for stabilizing tokamak plasmas
--Raphael Rosen, PPPL A team of physicists led by Stephen Jardin of the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory …
23 Nov 2015
Capturing a spectacular operation
One of the most spectacular operations ever performed on the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ site was the lifting of the Assembly Hall roof structure during the night…
20 Nov 2015
Vacuum vessel sectors take shape in Italy
​The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ vacuum vessel is composed of nine sectors, two of which are being procured by Korea and seven by Europe. In Italy, production of…
20 Nov 2015
Rob Goldston wins "Best Paper" award
​The editorial board of the journal Nuclear Fusion has selected Rob Goldston, a fusion researcher and Princeton University professor of…
16 Nov 2015
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ releases new website
​ °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ launched its new website this week! A techier look to go with our ultra-hi-tech mission. For all those friends who ask you over…
16 Nov 2015
FuseNet PhD event: off to an enthusiastic start
The ramp-up time for achieving a fusion reaction inside a tokamak machine varies, depending on a certain number of boundary conditions such…
16 Nov 2015
MIIFED - IBF 2016: registration has started!
The Monaco °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ International Fusion Energy Days (MIIFED) and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Business Forum (IBF) 2016 will take place in Monaco from 8 to…
16 Nov 2015
The chancellor, the terrorists and the tokamak
​Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died on 10 November at age 96, played an essential but little-known role in the decision to…