Of Interest archive
2014
15 Dec 2014
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ITER hosts an international workshop on remuneration
On 5 December 2014, Osamu Motojima, Director-General of the ITER Organization, opened a day-long international workshop on remuneration鈥
15 Dec 2014
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Turning out one radial plate per month
Inside of ITER's large D-shaped toroidal field coils, the stacked layers of conductor will be held in place by radial plates鈥
15 Dec 2014
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New director for MIT fusion centre
鈥婭n November, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a new director for its Plasma Science and Fusion Center, home to鈥
12 Dec 2014
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Rebuild of UK's MAST tokamak continues
鈥婽he Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) facility at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is undergoing a major 拢30 million upgrade that鈥
3 Dec 2014
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Top management changes at Fusion for Energy
鈥婽he Governing Board of the European Domestic Agency for ITER Fusion for Energy (F4E) has decided to appoint Dr Pietro Barabaschi as Acting鈥
3 Dec 2014
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Francesco Romanelli bids farewell to EUROfusion
With a lecture on the subject of "The Fusion Roadmap and the challenges of the ITER era," Francesco Romanelli completed his tenure as EFDA鈥
3 Dec 2014
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ITER Russia opens its doors to young researchers
鈥婩or the third consecutive year, young scientists involved with ITER Project implementation from Russia's major research centres were鈥
28 Nov 2014
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Daniel Clery on "A Piece of the Sun"
鈥婼cience writer Daniel Clery visited the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) recently to talk about his book on the history of fusion,鈥
26 Nov 2014
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Rob Goldston among Foreign Policy magazine's 100 top global thinkers
鈥婨ditors of Foreign Policy magazine have named fusion physicist Rob Goldston, a Princeton University professor of astrophysical sciences鈥
24 Nov 2014
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Supercomputer lends insight into plasma dynamics
鈥婼tudying the intricacies and mysteries of the sun is physicist Wendell Horton life's work. A widely known authority on plasma physics, his鈥
21 Nov 2014
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Latest newsletter for the US ITER Project Office
The November issue of the US ITER News Update is available on line. It includes a full review of the status of US procurement for ITER and鈥
17 Nov 2014
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FuseNet launches new education support schemes
鈥婩useNet, the European platform to coordinate and improve fusion education, has launched a new student support scheme in cooperation with鈥
17 Nov 2014
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First Highly Exceptional Load sails to ITER
鈥婳n Friday 14 November, the first Highly Exceptional Load (HEL) destined to the ITER site was loaded onto the container ship CMA-Ivanhoe in鈥
13 Nov 2014
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Princeton researchers present cutting edge results at APS Plasma Physics Conference
鈥婼ome 135 researchers, graduate students, and staff members from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL, US)) joined 1,500 research鈥
13 Nov 2014
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Hole in one: Centre stack smoothly installed in NSTX-U
鈥媁ith near-surgical precision, technicians at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL, US) hoisted the 29,000-pound (13,000鈥
10 Nov 2014
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A rare and beautiful sight
鈥媁ildlife is thriving on the ITER site. Wild boars, mouflon goats and deer freely roam the vast expanses of forest that surround the鈥
7 Nov 2014
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Call for abstracts: EST-Energy Conference 2015
鈥婩rom 20-22 May 2015 the ENERGY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Conference and Exhibition (EST-Energy) will be taking place at the Karlsruhe鈥
5 Nov 2014
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Lab develops infrared camera system to view tokamak from the inside
鈥婰awrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, in collaboration with General Atomics and the University of Arizona, have鈥
31 Oct 2014
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43-minute program on nuclear fusion: BBC Radio 4 "In Our Time"
鈥婱elvyn Bragg from "In Our Time" and his guests discuss nuclear fusion, the process that powers stars. In the 1920s physicists鈥
31 Oct 2014
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University of Rome offers Fusion Master's courses
鈥媁here else would you like to study fusion science and engineering but in the heart of the Eternal City? The second oldest public鈥