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Los Alamos scientists are using an adapted version of VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code, to model the nonlinear physics of laser backscatter energy transfer and plasma instabilities to assist colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as they attempt to reach fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility next year.
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 | Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places. With an accelerator being built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a collaboration among Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, scientists will soon be able to study warm dense matter in the laboratory. ...> Full Article |
 | 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. ...> Full Article |
 | Physicists at NIST are studying their own version of a sodium substitute -- sodium-like tungsten ions that could be useful in monitoring the ultra-hot plasma inside fusion energy devices. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions, the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. Scientists describe what they term the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, which scientists view as tell-tale signs of nuclear fusion reactions. Their study is scheduled for presentation in March at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. ...> Full Article |
The global ITER-test power plant project can be seen as one of the most challenging energy projects of mankind. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Tampere University of Technology are responsible for developing the maintenance of the critical parts of the fusion plant that is been built in Europe. A full-scale research platform to develop and test the maintenance robot and remote handling operations for ITER has been taken into use on Jan. 29 in Finland.
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 | Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants, making nuclear power a more viable alternative to carbon-based energy sources. ...> Full Article |
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.
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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.
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For fusion energy to be commercially viable, better methods are needed for metering the temperature and output in a fusion reactor. In his doctoral dissertation, Henrik Sjöstrand demostrates a new method for this.
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Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world's quest for cleaner energy.
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 | The world's largest fusion experiment of the stellarator type taking shape at IPP's Greifswald branch institute ...> Full Article |
 | Physicists at MIT and the University of Rochester have devised a new way to take "snapshots" of the high-energy, high-temperature reactions seen as key to achieving the long-held dream of controlled nuclear fusion. ...> Full Article |
 | If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory. ...> Full Article |
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