Of Interest archive
2013
24 Dec 2013
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The quality stamp for Generation ºÚÁÏÉçapp
​A new educational currency in the world of fusion becomes available this month with the launch of European Fusion Masters and Doctorate…
23 Dec 2013
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Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT receives the 2013 Hannes Alfvén Prize
Professor Miklos Porkolab, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT and professor in the MIT's Department of Physics,…
22 Dec 2013
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South Korea seeks to develop key technologies for fusion energy
The South Korean government reports that it will invest 151.6 billion won (EUR 103 million) in R&D for nuclear fusion this…
21 Dec 2013
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Tensions laid bare as Desertec exits industrial solar consortium
A €400bn plan to power Europe using solar panels in North African deserts has been thrown into disarray after the non-profit foundation…
20 Dec 2013
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Nuclear energy innovation is vital for slowing climate change
In the last week, two news stories really captured the potential future for nuclear energy. In The New York Times, Matthew Wald…
19 Dec 2013
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Fusion energy: the 'great gamble' we have to take
Billions have already been spent on fusion since the first experimental base opened in the former Soviet Union in the 1960s. Billions more…
18 Dec 2013
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'Nuclear pasta' in neutron stars may be new type of matter
A rare state of matter dubbed "nuclear pasta" appears to exist only inside ultra-dense objects called neutron stars, astronomers…
17 Dec 2013
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Fighting climate change with nuclear energy
In the last week, two news stories really captured the potential future for nuclear energy. The New York Times' Matthew Wald reported from…
16 Dec 2013
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Modelling of hybrid scenario: from present-day experiments towards ºÚÁÏÉçapp
The 'hybrid' scenario is an attractive operating scenario for ºÚÁÏÉçapp since it combines long plasma duration with the reliability of the…
15 Dec 2013
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Status of MIT fusion experiment warms up
US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana visited the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) on 14 June to learn about fusion research at…
14 Dec 2013
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Dying Herschel maps the fuel for new stars
Something of a sad moment for infrared astronomy has come with the death of the European Space Agency's powerful space telescope Herschel. …
13 Dec 2013
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Super solar storm could leave Western nations without power "for months"
A power outage could leave Western nations without electricity for months in the event of a strong geomagnetic storm, a new report claims,…
12 Dec 2013
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Have fusion, will travel
They seek one day to harness the same energy that powers the stars and thus to open the door to deep space exploration. Among the first…
11 Dec 2013
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Journey to the centre of the torus
It sounds like a kind of gothic torture—being put in a large bucket and lowered into a 9m-deep hole at the centre of a huge machine. But it…
10 Dec 2013
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IEA warns: world is not on track to limit temperature increase to 2°C
Warning that the world is not on track to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
9 Dec 2013
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At 25 Tore Supra is looking WESTward
JET turns 30 this year, but its smaller cousin Tore Supra, in France, is close behind, celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Tore…
8 Dec 2013
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Memoirs from Sandia's Z Machine
The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course…
7 Dec 2013
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Marseille's MuCEM offers bridge between Mediterranean, Europe
Architect Rudy Ricciotti, who designed the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Hedaquarters in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, makes headlines as his latest creation, the Musée…
6 Dec 2013
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Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, dies at 79: was first to "see" atoms
Heinrich Rohrer, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a microscope that made it possible to see individual atoms and…
5 Dec 2013
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Last steel seam on Wendelstein 7-X closed
The last open seam on the steel outer cover of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device was closed last week. The core of the research device is…