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New insights on fusion power
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Physicists persevere in quest for inexhaustible energy source
Jun 01, 2006 |
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As gas prices soar and greenhouse gases continue to blanket the atmosphere, the need for a clean, safe and cheap source of energy has never seemed more pressing. Scientists have long worked to meet that need, ...
Low-Budget Fusion Reactor Could Generate Energy within a Decade
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking ...
Nuclear fusion power project to start in 2018: official
Jun 18, 2009 |
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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.
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Scientists develop high-performance steel for possible use in ITER fusion project
Oct 24, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Nations Sign Nuclear Fusion Reactor Pact
Nov 21, 2006 |
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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) ...
Wanted: the right wall material for ITER
Oct 12, 2007 |
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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. ...
Controls engineer wins NSF CAREER Award to advance the viability of nuclear fusion
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Few emerging technologies make claims that are as grand as the promises of nuclear fusion. Few, however, will require as much time and effort before they come to fruition.
Nuclear fusion power project to start in slimmed-down version
Jun 08, 2009 |
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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.
No longer splitting hairs over splitting atoms?
Jul 29, 2008 |
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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 ...
NIST Light Source Illuminates Fusion Power Diagnostics
Oct 11, 2007 |
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Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are helping ...
Scientist receives massive computing project award to develop magnetic fusion energy
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Choong-Seock Chang, a research professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has received a Department of Energy (DOE) award to carry out ultra large-scale computation using the Cray XT supercomputer ...
On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, ...
Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action
Dec 22, 2005 |
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Evolution has been the foundation and guiding theory of biology since Darwin gave the theory its proper scientific debut in 1859. But Darwin probably never dreamed that researchers in 2005 would still be uncovering new details ...
U.S. ITER Project Office Is Relocating to ORNL
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Feb 01, 2006 |
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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 lab ...
