Sentences with phrase «fusion energy»

Participants acquire experience and training in areas of fusion energy science, interact with outstanding scientists and engineers, and have access to advanced equipment and facilities.

The annual event focuses on the latest developments in the quest for fusion energy.

Despite the great progress made in fusion energy research over the past fifty years, there is still no commercial fusion power plant in existence.

Future facilities that produce fusion energy must operate in a steady state, or constant, manner 24 hours a day.

Oh - and in case anyone else is confused — I discovered a new nuclear fusion energy source and named it after myself.

Such an engineering test reactor is required by all parties for progress toward practical fusion energy, so cost sharing for this step is mutually advantageous.

Commercial fusion energy plants would use relatively tiny amounts of fuel to generate millions of watts of electrical power.

Soon they will switch on and heat hydrogen fuel to temperatures much closer to those needed for generating fusion energy.

Those with a long memory will recall the very early optimism about fusion energy that existed in the late 1950s and 1960s.

In the high - stakes race to realize fusion energy, a smaller lab may be putting the squeeze on the big boys.

Will fusion energy still be as distant a dream three decades from now as it was three decades ago?

You may be most familiar with the element lithium as an integral component of your smart phone's battery, but the element also plays a role in the development of clean fusion energy.

Over 1,000 European and Japanese researchers will get access to the system, which is optimized for plasma physics and fusion energy calculations.

We are confident that abundant fusion energy can be produced on a very large scale and are now focused on the remaining physics and engineering challenges to make it practical and attractive.

Scientists around the world have crossed a threshold into a promising and challenging new era in the quest for fusion energy.

As a result, the edge temperature can be increased, turbulence is reduced, and the whole plasma stays hotter — three important characteristics for the creation of fusion energy.

I think the story so far shows the power of determination to produce fusion energy.

Practical fusion energy, which we thought was very unlikely given the technical challenges, was [rated] at least 50 — 50, if not higher.

But if it were confirmed, it would be an entirely new approach to generating fusion energy.

He will lead the PPPL communications team and create and implement a plan to increase the visibility of the Laboratory, especially its leadership role in the science and technology of magnetic fusion energy research and the science of plasma physics.

The experiment was a 24 - hour - a-day, seven - day - a-week enterprise and broke new ground in fusion energy research, Meade said.

They would slash spending on fusion energy science by 39 % to $ 232 million.

«The ultimate goal in fusion energy science is to provide a sustainable, renewable, zero emissions energy source,» Smith, who as a reminder penned an editorial last year imploring the public not to buy into the «hysteria over carbon dioxide,» continued.

«The achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy] program,» says committee co-chair Ronald Davidson of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

A partnership between MIT and the private sector promises to develop fusion energy as an energy source within the next 15 years.

In addition to being a mainstay of efforts to figure out how to use lasers to create fusion energy, the 23 - year - old facility also does pioneering work in studying matter at high - energy density.

The trio's hunt for the cause of big blackouts grew out of the two physicists» research on fusion energy at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is located at 100 Stellarator Road off Campus Drive on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J. PPPL researchers collaborate with researchers around the globe in the field of plasma science, the study of ultra-hot, charged gases, to develop practical solutions for the creation of magnetic fusion energy as an energy source for the world.

The project is currently evaluating designs, materials and supply chains and working toward vendor and energy industry standards to bring fusion energy from the lab to local generating stations.

He is on a roll now, plotting the path that could finally bring fusion energy to your household electrical outlet: «Maybe years from now, some of these things that are difficult to do today will be technologies we can handle.

The December 17, 1979 issue of Newsweek reported that the Department of Energy was boosting research spending on fusion energy reactors based on a scientific consensus that the break - even point — that a fusion reactor would produce more energy than it consumes — could be passed within five years.

PPPL physicists collaborating on the W7 - X stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany, were on hand for the Feb. 3 celebration

Despite proposed cuts to the U.S. magnetic fusion program, a new report advocates a parallel effort to pursue fusion energy using the rival inertial confinement scheme.

Tri Alpha Energy Inc. is one of the handful of startup companies trying to achieve fusion energy via nontraditional methods.

He likens using the ego for fuel to burning coal, while inspiration as the result of a more positive drive is more like fusion energy.

George W. Bush committed the U.S. to joining the international ITER consortium to pursue fusion energy, but the new Democratic Congress of 2007 - 2008 refused to appropriate the U.S. pledge.

«In some ways, it's the most disappointing end of a countdown because you don't see something blasting off into the sky,» said Mike Dunne, director of laser fusion energy at NIF.

The PPPL Theory Department helps to provide the scientific foundation for harnessing fusion energy.

Furthermore, it is expected that the fast ignition scheme proposed by ILE, Osaka, will produce fusion energy with a relatively small laser system.

There are at least six fusion energy companies, and several sustainable fission companies focused on thorium and fast uranium.

The Madison Symmetric Torus has been a cornerstone of decades of plasma research at UW — Madison, including research into fusion energy.

If Laberge has a shadow of a doubt that his company won't achieve viable fusion energy, he hides it well.

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.

The NIF User Group includes researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories, international fusion energy researchers, scientists from academia, and other national and international users.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

Scientists can then begin working out how to harvest fusion energy for practical use.

* Clarification 11:20 a.m., 21 February: Davidson thinks «the achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy],» not an ICF program, as initially reported.