Sentences with phrase «experimental fusion»
"Experimental fusion" refers to the process of combining or merging various elements or ideas together in a new and untested way to see if they work well together or create something new and innovative. Full definition
When the ITER experimental fusion reactor begins operation in the 2020s, over 40 diagnostic tools will provide essential data to researchers seeking to understand plasma behavior and optimize fusion performance.
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Newman, who as a teen developed a fascination with turbulence as a rafting guide in Colorado, arrived at Oak Ridge in 1993 to explore a different kind of turbulence: the plasma of fusing hydrogen atoms inside experimental fusion reactors.
Due for completion next year, the SPIDER facility in Italy will fine - tune the heating source for ITER, the world's first experimental fusion reactor
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Germany have devised a new method for minimizing turbulence in bumpy donut - shaped experimental fusion facilities called stellarators.
For comparison, construction on a huge $ 40 billion (# 26 billion) experimental fusion reactor in France called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) began in 2013, and is expected to be completed in 2019.
NFRI hosts a tokamak research reactor and South Korea's effort to support ITER, the experimental fusion reactor under construction near Cadarache in France.
It is an experimental fusion machine based on the «tokamak» concept — a toroidal (doughnut - shaped) magnetic configuration that is used to create and maintain the conditions for controlled fusion reactions.
The experimental fusion reactors now being built around the world use a fuel composed of a plasma of two isotopes of hydrogen — deuterium and tritium.
Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»
It is also boosting by 50 % the budget for ITER, the experimental fusion reactor being built by an international consortium in France, to $ 294 million.
In his report, Friedman found that two PPPL employees had received a total of $ 1.04 million in housing subsidies for «temporary» assignment to General Atomics in San Diego, California, which, like PPPL, runs an experimental fusion device known as a tokamak.
One thing the committee was not allowed to reconsider was the US commitment to ITER, the international attempt to build an experimental fusion reactor.
Currently, an experimental fusion reactor called ITER is under development in France and is projected to cost $ 20bn by the completion of the experiment.
That career has been marked by «increasing responsibilities, particularly in the magnet design and manufacturing area, for every experimental fusion device that PPPL has been associated with,» said Mike Williams, associate PPPL director for engineering and infrastructure and a winner of the Fusion Technology Award in 1993.