Sentences with phrase «for fusion experiments»

He spent nearly a decade in the corporate world building high - end printers, not, it should be pointed out, manipulating plasma fuel for fusion experiments.

I spoke with Moses on the significance of the record - breaking experiment, on what lies ahead for the fusion experiments and the problems of project - managing scientific discoveries.

Not exact matches

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

They are operating on a fraction of the budget of the big public - sector fusion experiments (see my briefing from last August), yet the consensus among scientists who've reviewed its design for «magnetized target fusion» is that, to borrow a phrase from Captain James T. Kirk, it just might work.

Dr. Peter Turchi, who worked on fusion experiments in the 1970s, including Linus for the U.S. Naval Research Lab, also concludes that General Fusion has several technical advantages now that could help them succeed.

Development of a Bayesian method for the analysis of inertial confinement fusion experiments on the NIF

However, for the third year in a row the Senate panel moved to zero out spending on the United States's contribution to ITER, the massive fusion experiment currently under construction in Cadarache, France, which has been experiencing delays and massive cost overruns.

Nevertheless, the administration seems ready to stay with ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction near Cadarache in France, as it allots $ 63 million for the project.

They are proceeding in parallel with the single most important experiment for the future of fusion power, the $ 12 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

For more than a decade, Iranian specialists in nuclear fusion experimented on aging tokamaks and other devices in seclusion, cut off from the global fusion community because of Iran's status as a nuclear pariah.

Such experiments are usually geared toward harnessing fusion for clean energy applications.

To help pay for the ITER increase, DOE is proposing to shut down a fusion experiment known as the Alcator C - Mod at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

A new experiment releases more energy than is pumped into fuel — a major milestone — but a long journey still remains for sustainable energy from fusion

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world's most expensive science experiment, in July.

Despite congressional support for science office, U.S. payments to the international fusion experiment, ITER, could lead to severe cuts.

Mr Qu developed a simpler theory for plasma behaviour based on fluid flow and was able to explain an unstable wave mode that had been observed in the United States» largest fusion experiment, DIII - D.

(Conventional fusion experiments do not come close to the temperatures and densities needed for efficient hydrogen - boron fusion.)

Matthew Hole (L) and Zhisong Qu are at the virtual control room for overseas fusion experiments in RSPE.

Maintaining that exact geometry is crucial to the experiment's success, because leaks would rob the plasma of the pressure and energy needed for fusion.

A new experiment that measures the energy budget of a collapsing bubble for the first time indicates that so - called «bubble fusion» is unlikely to occur.

Moyer: So, for many years, ever since World War II, when people realized the power inherent here, they've dreamed of making a controlled fusion experiment.

Today, a look at the growing controversy surrounding U.S. funding for the international fusion experiment ITER.

The Obama Administration has proposed slashing spending on the domestic fusion research by 16 % in the 2013 fiscal year that begins on 1 October and is using the savings to help pay for the U.S. contribution to the international fusion experiment ITER, under construction in Cadarache, France.

In December, after a lengthy review of the evidence, it said it was open to receiving proposals for new cold fusion experiments.

As neuroscientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel of Harvard University discovered in a series of groundbreaking experiments in the 1960s, individual cells in the visual cortex, so - called binocular cells, receive input from both eyes, specifically from corresponding retinal locations, thus providing a mechanism for perceptual fusion.

Fusion Energy Sciences would get $ 467 million — the same as this year — including $ 150 million for the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France.

Known as Magpie (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) and being built by the plasma physics group at Imperial College, it is a tangible break from the traditional approaches to fusion research.

Its woes have attracted widespread criticism and eaten into research budgets for other fusion experiments around the world.

In an important experiment published one year later, Jim Rothman, a Lasker Prize winner in 2002 honored for his work on fusion in non-neuronal cells, provided the experimental support for Scheller's idea by demonstrating that Scheller's VAMP, or as Rothman called it the v - SNARE, interacted with Scheller's syntaxin or t - SNARE, together with a second t - SNARE, to initiate fusion.

Kessel heads a nationwide study that will detail options for the FNSF and consider its role in relation to ITER, the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.

SiliconRepublic ran a story about nuclear fusion that quotes Jon Menard, the head of research for PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade.

The machines included ASDEX - Upgrade, in Germany; Alcator C - Mod at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DIII - D, the national fusion facility operated by General Atomics for the DOE in San Diego; the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at PPPL that has since been upgraded; and the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom.

Researchers designed an effective algorithm for the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade, a magnetic fusion reactor at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

«People are modeling ever - larger and more complex processes,» said Feibush, who heads the development of web - based software for imaging data from fusion experiments at PPPL, a position he continues to hold.

He initially performed both neutronics — the study of neutrons that emerge from plasmas — and plasma control calculations for the design of the Burning Plasma Experiment (BPX), a fusion facility that was targeted to produce about 100 - 500 megawatts of fusion power, which at a minimum would equal the heating power but was hoped to exceed it.

The NSTX - U routinely conducts experiments at or above the 15 million degree Celsius core of the sun as it investigates fusion reactions as the energy for generating electricity.

They will join a network of internationally recognized researchers who will consult with ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in France, on plans and components for the project, which is designed to demonstrate the practicality of fusion energy.

Improving our understanding of how and when mixtures of carbon and hydrogen separate under extreme conditions also is relevant for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments.

«I already see that major fusion facilities in the United States, as well as international tokamaks, are embarking on experiments that are ideal validation tools for theory and simulation,» he said.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

The 100 kJ is the energy output of a 100 - watt light for about 20 minutes, but in a fusion experiment at NIF, that energy would be released in less than a billionth of a second and enough to bring the fuel a step closer to the ignition conditions.

«Over the years they have developed highly innovative and uniquely capable tools for analyzing the results of fusion experiments.»

«This suggests a fundamentally different design for compression - based fusion experiments,» Davidovits said, «and a new paradigm for the inertial technique of producing fusion energy.»

Schweickhard «Schwick» von Goeler, an award - winning physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for more than 35 years and the inventor of numerous X-ray diagnostics used in fusion experiments worldwide, died of leukemia on Dec. 6 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

National Spherical Torus Experiment — Upgrade will help determine the course of fusion energy for years to come

For example, there was widespread concern based on work by theorists in the early 1970s that certain «drift instabilities» in fusion experiments would cool the plasma and prevent tokamaks from reaching the conditions necessary for fusion to occFor example, there was widespread concern based on work by theorists in the early 1970s that certain «drift instabilities» in fusion experiments would cool the plasma and prevent tokamaks from reaching the conditions necessary for fusion to occfor fusion to occur.

The path to creating sustainable fusion energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electric energy has been filled with «aha moments» that have led to a point in history when the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more fusion energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

A system also is planned for PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), the Laboratory's major fusion experiment, which is undergoing a $ 94 millioExperiment (NSTX), the Laboratory's major fusion experiment, which is undergoing a $ 94 millioexperiment, which is undergoing a $ 94 million upgrade.

The team took office shortly after DOE had cancelled PPPL's unfinished National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX)-- now known as QUASAR — when construction costs exceeded the initial projections for the innovative fusion facility.

Current projects from the Mechanical Engineering Division range from the design and analysis of coils for the $ 94 million upgrade of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX - U), the Laboratory's major fusion facility, to the development of in - vessel coils for ITER, the huge international fusion experiment under construction in CadarachExperiment (NSTX - U), the Laboratory's major fusion facility, to the development of in - vessel coils for ITER, the huge international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarachexperiment under construction in Cadarache, France.