Of Interest archive
2014
31 Oct 2014
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October issue of F4E News
The latest issue of the European Domestic Agency's newsletter, F4ENews, has just been released. You can consult it here.
29 Oct 2014
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Scientists use plasma shaping to control turbulence in stellarators
鈥婻esearchers at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in鈥
29 Oct 2014
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Using radio waves to control the density in a fusion plasma
鈥婻ecent fusion experiments on the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics (California, US) and the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT (Massachusetts,鈥
27 Oct 2014
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New Advisory Board to promote project and safety culture at ITER
鈥婭n order to improve project performance and in light of the ITER Project's specific managerial and cultural complexities, an External鈥
26 Oct 2014
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Upcoming colloquium on TFTR record fusion power shot
鈥婸rinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory is organizing a colloquium on TFTR record fusion power shot of December 1993.More information鈥
23 Oct 2014
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Puzzling new behavior found in high-temperature superconductors
鈥婻esearch by an international team led by SLAC and Stanford scientists has uncovered a new, unpredicted behavior in a copper oxide material鈥
20 Oct 2014
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Latest news from Korea's fusion research program
鈥婭n the latest newsletter published by Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), read how the KSTAR tokamak has topped 10,000鈥
17 Oct 2014
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Russia and China to develop hybrid reactor
鈥婻ussia is developing a hybrid nuclear reactor that uses both nuclear fusion and fission, said head of leading nuclear research facility鈥
17 Oct 2014
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Manufacturing for acceleration grid power supplies has started in India
鈥婱anufacturing is underway in India for the acceleration grid power supplies that will be supplied to the SPIDER test bed in Italy as well鈥
15 Oct 2014
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Three hours with an ITER physicist on web radio
The German science and engineering website Tau Omega recently featured a three-hour audio interview of 鈥婭TER physicist Richard Pitts鈥
15 Oct 2014
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General Atomics physicist gets top fusion award
鈥婣 General Atomics physicist has won one of the most prestigious awards in fusion energy research, it was announced this week at a major鈥
13 Oct 2014
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World's largest fusion conference opens in St. Petersburg
The 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014) will be held from 13 to 18 October 2014 in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation. 鈥
12 Oct 2014
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Sandia's Z machine makes progress toward nuclear fusion
鈥婼cientists are reporting a significant advance in the quest to develop an alternative approach to nuclear fusion. Researchers at Sandia鈥
12 Oct 2014
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Latest "Fusion in Europe" is out
鈥婽he autumn issue of Fusion in Europe is available for download at this link.The 20-page issue covers the recent launch of EUROfusion (the鈥
10 Oct 2014
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EFDA becomes EUROfusion
鈥婳n 9 October 2014 the European Commission officially launched the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, EUROfusion for鈥
7 Oct 2014
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Divertor cassette replaced by remote control at VTT Finland
鈥媀TT Technical Research Centre of Finland has reached an important objective in the development of ITER fusion reactor remote control, when鈥
5 Oct 2014
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F4E business forum announced
The European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy (F4E), is organizing a major business event from 10 to 12 June 2015.The鈥
5 Oct 2014
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WEST Newsletter #6 is out
The Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, ITER's neighbour in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, has published issue #6 of the WEST newsletter鈥
3 Oct 2014
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New European innovation award goes to KIT researchers
German researchers Christian Day and Thomas Giegerich from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are the first recipients of the鈥
1 Oct 2014
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European Commission launches EUROfusion
鈥婳n 9 October 2014 the European Commission invites the fusion community into the heart of the European Quarter, the Solvay Library, to鈥