What is JT-60SA? JT-60SA is a fusion experiment designed to support the operation of ITER and to investigate how best to optimise the operation of fusion power plants that are built after ITER. It is a joint international research and development project involving Japan and Europe, and is to be built in Naka, Japan using … Read more
John Sheffield May 2003 This research was sponsored by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725, with UT-Battelle, LLC. Joint Institute for Energy and Environment 314 Conference Center Building Knoxville, TN 37996-4138 Phone: (865) 974-3939 Fax: (865) 974-4609 URL: www.jiee.org E-mail: jiee@utk.edu ABSTRACT World population is still increasing, … Read more
National Fusion Research Institute The next Generation Superconducting nuclear fusion research(KSTAR) 1. What is KSTAR (Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research)? KSTAR, a tokamak-typed nuclear fusion reactor, is being developed by the researchers and scientists of NFRI, Korea, and will be the cornerstone of constructing a Korean fusion power plant. It was December 1995 when the … Read more
euro-fusion.org REALISING FUSION ELECTRICITY BY 2050 In 2014, 29 research organisations and universities from 26 European countries plus Switzerland signed the EUROfusion consortium agreement. In addition about 100 Third Parties contribute to the research activities through the Consortium members. EUROfusion collaborates with Fusion for Energy (Spain) and intensively supports the ITER International Organization (France). EUROfusion, … Read more
Institute for Plasma Research is an autonomous R & D organization under the authority of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India situated near west banks of river Sabarmati in Gujarat, India. This institute is largely involved in theoretical and experimental studies in plasma science including basic plasma physics, magnetically confined hot plasmas and … Read more
ITER If you haven’t heard about ITER, chances are you will soon. The scale and scope of the ITER Project rank it among the most ambitious science endeavors of our time. Building began in 2010 on the ITER platform in Cadarache, France where 35 nations are collaborating to realize the world’s largest tokamak fusion device. … Read more
Jülich Bringing the Solar Fire to Earth: Fusion Research On the way towards an international fusion reactor In the south of France, the international fusion reactor known as ITER is currently being constructed. For fusion researchers worldwide, this is the most important large-scale experiment, as ITER will be the first reactor to generate 500 million … Read more
German Federal Ministry of Education & Research Fusion Research – how the sun and stars produce energy Fusion, that is, the merging of atomic cores, is the process by which the sun and the stars produce their energy. It is an ancient dream of mankind to “bring the sun down on earth” and to make … Read more
University of Sydney Fusion energy research in the School of Physics focuses on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC). This approach enables fusion to be carried out on a bench top while still enabling the physics of larger fusion devices to be studied. The approaches used to study the physics of IEC use optical diagnostics such as … Read more
APFRF The Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility (APFRF, formerly the National Plasma Fusion Research Facility) is a uniquely versatile plasma research facility, located in the Research School of Physics and Engineering within the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. The H-1 heliac is the Australian focus of basic experimental research on magnetically confined plasma, important … Read more