Of Interest archive
2013
22 Sep 2013
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Black hole jets might be molded by magnetism
Black hole jets might be molded by magnetism Even though black holes鈥攂y their definition and very nature鈥攁re the ultimate hoarders鈥
21 Sep 2013
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MIT team sees the very first stars
MIT team sees the very first stars Researchers at MIT, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California at鈥
20 Sep 2013
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National Ignition Facility seeks new cash
National Ignition Facility seeks new cash The US Congress had set the end of this year as the deadline for "ignition" at鈥
19 Sep 2013
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Cost of third-generation French nuclear plant rises again
Cost of third-generation French nuclear plant rises again French utility provider Electricit茅 de France announced on 3鈥
18 Sep 2013
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Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is engineering a future for high-tech work
A recruitment drive has been launched by a leading research centre to attract the next generation of hi-tech engineers and scientists. The鈥
17 Sep 2013
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Praise and suggestions for fusion research from a utility industry think tank
Research to develop fusion energy has shown "significant progress" in many areas, according to a new report from the Electric Power鈥
16 Sep 2013
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Fusion images shine at awards
Fascinating images of fusion have captured the judges' hearts in the 2012 German Prize for Science Photography 鈥 two of the five prizes鈥
15 Sep 2013
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Is this the Bill Gates of energy?: Meet nuclear entrepreneur Taylor Wilson (18)
Forbes reports that at the recent Halifax International Security Forum, which brought together an impressive array of鈥
14 Sep 2013
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Waiting on ignition at NIF
The National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, has been called a modern-day moon-shot, a project of "revolutionary science,鈥
13 Sep 2013
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Poland's fusion program concentrating on Wendelstein 7-X
Now successfully completed is the first of several cooperation projects that are to involve Poland's fusion research program in Wendelstein鈥
12 Sep 2013
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EU budget: Where the money goes
There are various proposals for the size of the EU's next seven-year budget, beginning in 2014. The sum of EUR 973 billion euros (拢782.5bn;鈥
11 Sep 2013
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Poland to invest 12.5 billion euros in shale gas by 2020
Poland will invest 50 billion zlotys (EUR 15.5 billion) in the exploration of shale gas by 2020, Finance Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said鈥
10 Sep 2013
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Stop the Parade!
Should we be wasting our dwindling supply of helium on floating cartoon characters? For Americans, the fourth Thursday in November can mean鈥
9 Sep 2013
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In defense of sustained research on fusion
Stewart C. Prager, the director of the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a professor of astrophysical sciences鈥
8 Sep 2013
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Lab astrophysics aims for the stars
The giant orange magnets were built decades ago to confine hydrogen nuclei in the quest for fusion energy. But since 1998, Jan Egedal, a鈥
7 Sep 2013
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1,000 underwater turbines deep in the Channel
French utilities EDF and GDZ Suez are planning to install between 1,000 and 1,500 underwater turbines in the English Channel by 2030. The鈥
6 Sep 2013
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Watch a colossal loop of glowing red plasma shoot out from the sun
The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The鈥
5 Sep 2013
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International Atomic Energy Agency holds conference on fusion roadmap
Seventy participants from 16 countries and international groups gathered at the University of California at Los Angeles under the auspices鈥
4 Sep 2013
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Enthused with fusion, team targets what drives the sun
Hotter than the centre of the sun, the hydrogen plasma鈥攕uspended in a magnetic field in the ANU's H-1 heliac device鈥攔otates at 1km per鈥
3 Sep 2013
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Ignition switch
On a breezy day in 2009, action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor of California, took to the stage to dedicate the National鈥