Of Interest archive
2013
2 Sep 2013
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How much is the Moon worth?
Helium-3 is part of the solar wind that has buffeted the solar system for billions of years. Since the moon has no magnetic field or鈥
1 Sep 2013
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A magic lamp for the thermonuclear genie
The terrible and awe-inspiring power of thermonuclear reactions in mankind's Cold War past may translate into a much-needed supply of鈥
31 Aug 2013
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ORNL debuts Titan supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a鈥
30 Aug 2013
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Tracking the future
Very rarely is a research area as dependent on 3D-measurement technology in the set-up of its major experiments as fusion plasma physics鈥
29 Aug 2013
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Oscillating electrons revealed
Researchers from KVI (Groningen, The Netherlands), Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla MO, USA) and CONICET-Universidad鈥
28 Aug 2013
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The kid who has ideas on how to make fusion work
When he was 14, Wilson built a nuclear-fusion reactor. Then, a bomb-sniffing device that impressed even the president. Now 18, the prodigy鈥
27 Aug 2013
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What happens when the Sun runs out of fusion fuel?
Researchers who specialize in stellar evolution have long known that the inner planets are in danger. The trouble starts in the鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
17 Aug 2013
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Poland set to invest EUR 12.5 billion in shale gas (in French)
Alors que le d茅bat sur l'exploitation du gaz de schiste fait rage en France, la Pologne, fortement d茅pendante du gaz russe, a annonc茅,鈥
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鈥攂all lightning. Ball鈥
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鈥
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鈥
13 Aug 2013
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Contracts for ITER components awarded
More contracts have been awarded for components to be used in the next-generation fusion reactor, ITER, being built in France. Indian,鈥