http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, a major component of U.S. contributions to the ITER Project. ITER's Toroidal Field Magnets will fill the plasma volume (~1000 cubic meters) with a magnetic field roughly 100,000 times the Earth's magnetic field. http://www.physorg.com/news173980230.html Physics Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:16 EST news173980230 Today, Ministers from the seven Parties of the international nuclear fusion project ITER (China, European Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America) came together to sign the agreement to establish the international Organization that will implement the ITER fusion energy project. http://www.physorg.com/news83324118.html Physics Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:35:18 EST news83324118 An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, will begin operation in southern France in 2018, the project's governing body announced Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news164558159.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:11 EST news164558159 Ministers representing the seven ITER parties will meet in Brussels on the 24th of May in the Commission`s Berlaymont building in Brussels, to initial the agreement that they have negotiated on jointly implementing the ITER fusion energy research project, which will be located in Cadarache, France. http://www.physorg.com/news67264811.html Physics Fri, 19 May 2006 13:40:11 EST news67264811 The U.S. project office for ITER, a major international fusion experiment, is relocating from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to optimize the roles of the two Department of Energy national laboratories, PPPL and ORNL announced today. http://www.physorg.com/news10462.html Physics Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:12:52 EST news10462 A multi-billion-dollar project to prove whether nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, can be a practicable energy source is to be scaled down in its early stages, sources said on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news163683173.html Technology Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:38 EST news163683173 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device. http://www.physorg.com/news144061886.html Physics Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:11:26 EST news144061886 Over six hundred representatives from European industry and fusion research institutes gathered in Barcelona on 13/14 December, for a two-day workshop named `ITER - Opportunities for European Industry`. The goal of the workshop is to inform European companies about the international ITER Fusion Energy Project, and to discuss opportunities for their involvement in its construction. The workshop follows an initiative of the Committee for Fusion Industry of the European Commission, and is hosted by the Spanish fusion laboratory CIEMAT. http://www.physorg.com/news9018.html Physics Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:11:44 EST news9018 ASDEX Upgrade at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching, Germany, recently became the world's first and only device allowing experiments with a wall completely clad with metal, viz. tungsten. The results are highly promising: Tungsten as wall material could also afford an attractive solution for the ITER international fusion experiment. http://www.physorg.com/news111412190.html Physics Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:49:50 EST news111412190 A new supercomputer will help us to understand the complex physical effects taking place inside the ITER fusion reactor. The computer known as HPC-FF will deliver computing power of about 100 teraflop/s and is optimally suited for the fusion scientists' simulation programs. The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) has charged its member Forschungszentrum Jülich, one of the world's leading supercomputing centres, with constructing and operating the computer. http://www.physorg.com/news152538813.html Physics Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:54:08 EST news152538813 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research carried out at MIT`s Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality, though scientists caution that a practical fusion powerplant is still decades away. http://www.physorg.com/news147528679.html Physics Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:11:19 EST news147528679 (PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego researchers are using `star` power to help ignite the field of fusion, which is being looked at as a future reliable green energy source. Under a new $5.8 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, UCSD will host and lead the new Center for Momentum Transport and Flow Organization in Plasmas and Magnetofluids, which will bring together astrophysical and magnetic fusion theorists, experimentalists and computationalists from multiple institutions. http://www.physorg.com/news171898294.html Physics Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:40:01 EST news171898294 (PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired new knowledge on a promising sodium alternative of their own. Sodium-like tungsten ions could pepper -- and conveniently monitor -- the hot plasma soup inside fusion energy devices, potential sources of abundant, clean power. http://www.physorg.com/news171650049.html Physics Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:35:05 EST news171650049 Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers from UC San Diego, MIT and UC Berkeley have received a $7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that could lead us one step closer to making that a reality. The researchers will use the five-year grant for fundamental multiscale studies of plasma-material interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news172162391.html Physics Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:53:34 EST news172162391 As public opinion shifts and many more governments around the world consider nuclear energy as a solution to climate concerns and energy security, it is time to ask why it has become a more attractive option. The Institute of Physics (IOP) ran two sessions at this year`s Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) to hold a public discussion about the future for both nuclear fission and fusion as sources of electricity. http://www.physorg.com/news136563842.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:24:02 EST news136563842