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
E.J. Synakowski Associate Director, Office of Science For Fusion Energy Sciences U.S. Department of Energy Presented to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee February 28, 2012
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
Yuanxi Wan University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Institute of Plasma Physics, CAS Hefei, China E-mail: wanyx@ipp.ac.cn or wanxy@ustc.edu.cn 30th April – 2nd May 2013 Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany 531st Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar on 3D versus 2D in Hot Plasmas This presentation discusses the Chinese need for fusion and other … Read more
newscientist.com 23 July 2015 China’s will be bigger and better (Image: David Parker/SPL) The world’s largest nuclear fusion machine, currently being built in France, is unlikely to produce more energy than it consumes until the early 2030s, warned the UK’s head of fusion research this week. That is five years later than planned – by … Read more
South China Morning Post Stephen Chen 17 July, 2015 China’s proposed hybrid nuclear fusion-fission reactor could potentially burn nuclear waste. Photo: AFP China will build a new hybrid reactor that can burn nuclear waste via a combined fusion-fission method by 2030. This could give a potentially dramatic boost to China’s attempt to switch to more … Read more