Sentences with phrase «from fusion research»

OTA's staff consists mostly of scientists and engineers who deliver some 40 to 50 technical reports a year to Congress on everything from fusion research to Indian archaeology.

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Once again returning to the predicament of extracting excess energy from fusion, Laberge toiled on his sofa, rereading all the previous research.
In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.
Users of NIF include scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, worldwide fusion energy and high - energy density science research centers, academia, and other national and international facilities.
NIF users include scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, worldwide fusion energy and high energy density science research centers, academia, and other national and international sources.
After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, Chang Díaz enrolled as a graduate student in applied plasma physics at MIT, where he began research in nuclear fusion.
Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene, called FGFR fusions, were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may benefit from treatment with FGFR inhibitor drugs, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Tabletop lasers focus light with the power of 1,000 Hoover Dams onto a tiny point for applications from physics and fusion research to medicine
Diagnostics techniques for fusion plasma research are applied to this achievement and make it possible to diagnose electron density using an interferometer, which in the past had been difficult due to influences from the atmosphere.
In the White House's proposed budget, spending on domestic fusion research would fall 16 % from current levels, to $ 248 million.
Still, the payoff could be huge: While mainstream fusion research programs are still decades from fruition, Lerner claims he requires just $ 750,000 in funding and two years of work to prove his process generates more energy than it consumes.
Prior results from Snell and his collaborators, as well as other research groups, indicated that HAP2 is necessary for sex cell fusion in the organisms that possess the protein.
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.
HFIR provides researchers around the world with unique irradiation capabilities for studies that range from basic materials research to the development of advanced alloys for fusion or space reactor applications.
PPPL has used such diagnostic systems, called X-ray crystal spectrometers, for decades to study the data from the laboratory's magnetic fusion research.
German engineers from the Max Planck Institute successfully activated the experimental nuclear fusion reactor used in the research last December and successfully managed to suspend plasma for the first time.
«It may be that the normal TEL allele successfully suppresses the function of the aberrant TEL - AML1 protein resulting from the fusion, so full - blown leukemia doesn't occur,» said the lead author of the study, Joseph Wiemels, PhD, now a UCSF assistant research molecular epidemiologist.
The books describe where research on magnetic fusion energy comes from and where it is going, and provide a basic understanding of the physics of plasma, the fourth state of matter that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe.
In a review of the state of the research in this field, Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti concludes the goal of realizing abundant, clean energy from inertial confinement fusion remains elusive, despite recent significant progress.
Papers, posters and presentations ranged from fusion plasma discoveries applicable to ITER, to research on 3D magnetic fields and antimatter.
We are pioneering this data fusion approach so that we can observe large areas of Earth's oceans, allowing us to quickly and easily identify those areas most at risk from increasing acidification,» says Jamie Shutler from the University of Exeter, who is leading the research.
The high honor from the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognizes outstanding contributions to research and development in the field of fusion technology.
Francis «Rip» William Perkins Jr., a pioneering plasma physicist whose contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ranged from seminal advances in fusion energy and astrophysical research to the education of a generation of scientists, died on July 26 in Boulder, Colo..
Prager noted further advances ranging from a new partnership between the Theory Department and the NSTX research group to new programs in astrophysics and low - temperature plasmas, new collaborations with superconducting fusion facilities around the world and new links to other parts of the University in fields that include plasma astrophysics and material sciences.
Chris Warrick from the European Fusion Development Agreement explains why research into fusion offers the hope of a safe and environmentally responsible energy source.
Their research led to the development of NORCLA code, the first non-classified coupled code, including time - dependent hydrodynamics and realistic neutron - gamma transport with adequate energy source from fusion and fission materials.
It provide students with an opportunity for research and writing and to integrate the vocabulary, grammar, and culture concepts previously acquired: - Modes of transportation - Beaches - Weather - Prepositions - Contractions - The history of Florida: San Agustin - Immigration from Latin America - Cultural fusion - Geography - Ecology Students and their teacher will watch the Spanish version of the vocabulary and grammar video together.
Following another recommendation from the vet, I conducted a thorough research all current diet variations and ended up making my own fusion.
As an alternative to the mainline approaches to fusion energy, Dr. Hirsch puts forth his research idea from the 1970s of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC).
from the Ben Pile article: Just a small fraction of the many # billions spent each year on subsidising the extremely inefficient renewable energy sector could finance instead an array of projects like ITER — the European fusion research programme — where currently many countries now share just one.
Specific research topics include carbon dioxide, methane and water fluxes and their reservoirs in vegetation and soil, transport in atmosphere, and model - data fusion using advanced numerical methods.The research is based on numerical modelling, from local to global scale with focus on northern regions.
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