Of Interest archive
2013
25 Aug 2013
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Too hot to handle
Researchers around the world are working on an efficient, reliable way to contain the plasma used in fusion reactors, potentially bringing…
24 Aug 2013
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With tight research budgets, is there room for the eternal promise of fusion?
Moving beyond the country's, and the world's, existing energy menu, which is still by far dominated by abundant and relatively cheap fossil…
23 Aug 2013
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New version of "InterFaces" (French) is out
New version of "InterFaces" (French) is out. Find it at: http://www.itercad.org/Interfaces/Interfaces40.pdf
22 Aug 2013
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The art of fusion science
Keen photographer Julian Siret from Special Techniques Group at JET was surprised to find a sculpture inspired by his workplace at a hotel…
21 Aug 2013
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Nuclear trash to nuclear treasure
The fission reactions that drive commercial nuclear reactors around the world and create around 20 percent of power in the United States…
20 Aug 2013
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Confronting climate change: 9 clean replacement technologies
July 2012 was the hottest month ever recorded, and 2012 is becoming the hottest year since record-keeping began in the nineteenth century…
19 Aug 2013
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Safer, more efficient, fusion-generated electricity is on the horizon
"There's always been this sense that fusion is fifty years away," Saskia Mordijck says, but she adds that the horizon for safer…
18 Aug 2013
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Fusion energy: one step closer to breaking even
In the high-stakes race to realize fusion energy, a smaller lab may be putting the squeeze on the big boys. Worldwide efforts to harness…
17 Aug 2013
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Poland set to invest EUR 12.5 billion in shale gas (in French)
Alors que le débat sur l'exploitation du gaz de schiste fait rage en France, la Pologne, fortement dépendante du gaz russe, a annoncé,…
16 Aug 2013
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Mystery of ball lightning solved?
A team of Australian scientists believe they have uncovered the cause of one of nature's most bizarre phenomenon—ball lightning. Ball…
15 Aug 2013
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Towards an understanding of the Sun's butterfly diagram
The Sun spins about a fixed axis, but since it's not solid its rotation frequency is not uniform: At the visible surface, the equator…
14 Aug 2013
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NIF responds to fusion "deadline" expiry
Staff at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) say that work to generate inertial confinement fusion with energy gain will continue as…
13 Aug 2013
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Contracts for ºÚÁÏÉçapp components awarded
More contracts have been awarded for components to be used in the next-generation fusion reactor, ºÚÁÏÉçapp, being built in France. Indian,…
12 Aug 2013
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Making progress by going backwards... and forwards
Scientists at Portugal's Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear (IPFN) have made a dramatic twenty-fold improvement to the operation of their…
11 Aug 2013
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Clean, limitless fusion power could arrive sooner than expected
Good news, denizens of Earth: If the findings from two premier research labs are to be believed, commercial nuclear fusion is feasible—and…
10 Aug 2013
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PPPL wins USD 12.25 million grant
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has won a USD 12.25 million competitive grant to develop computer codes to simulate a key…
9 Aug 2013
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Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith calls for carbon duty on imports
A leading energy expert says Australia should impose a carbon duty on imports of goods and services from countries that don't set a price…
7 Aug 2013
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Researchers create magnetic resonance imaging of the Sun's interior motions
A team of scientists has created a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the sun's interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it…
6 Aug 2013
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JET-setting Indian team get ºÚÁÏÉçapp-like ELM coils underway
A new chapter in JET's career is opening, as a significant international collaboration with India gets underway. The project is to…
5 Aug 2013
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Japanese researchers synthesize elusive atomic element 113
A Japanese team from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science (RNC) has announced the synthesis of the elusive atomic element…