Sentences with phrase «fusion energy research»

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

NSTX - U draws on a 65 - year - old legacy of fusion energy research at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory, where in the 1950s physicist Lyman Spitzer created a machine he called a stellarator to produce energy the same way as the sun — through fusion reactions where light elements collide and fuse together, releasing enormous amounts of energy.

ITER, which means «the way» in Latin, is an international fusion energy research and development project with the goal of taking the next major step in the development of fusion as a safe, clean, and sustainable energy source.

But NNSA has also stipulated that fusion energy research step aside in favor of more work on stockpile stewardship.

Lawmakers rejected cuts proposed by the White House to domestic fusion energy research programs, and a Senate proposal to cancel funding for the ITER fusion project under construction in France.

Given the high projected cost of creating a burning physics experiment and given that the U.S. now funds only about one sixth of the world research effort, a strategy based on international collaboration on fusion energy research and development can be highly cost effective.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative national center for fusion energy research.

The «European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy», EUROfusion, coordinates fusion energy research in 28 European countries * through 30 Consortium Members and about 150 universities, laboratories and industry.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a world - class fusion energy research laboratory dedicated to developing the scientific and technological knowledge base for fusion energy as a safe, economical and environmentally attractive energy source for the world's long - term energy requirements.

Berkeley Lab's inertial fusion energy research has emphasized ion beams — focused by magnetic fields, not materials like glass, and accelerated by induction accelerators.

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.

«Someday, the results of this research may provide the scientific foundation for producing power through fusion,» Smith said in his opening statements at a hearing held Tuesday on the future of U.S. fusion energy research.

Elsewhere, appropriators may have to make some tough calls over differing takes on advanced computing and fusion energy research at DOE, and proposed cuts to basic research at the Defense Department.

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

► In this week's Science news feature, «Fusion's restless pioneers,» Daniel Clery writes, «Something strange is happening in the world of fusion energy research.

The Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program offers recent doctoral degree recipients the opportunity to conduct research in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) fusion energy research and development programs.

As a fusion - knowledgeable scientist who does not work in fusion energy research, Dr. Richter includes some supportive comments for the fusion program, tempered by discerning skepticism.

-LSB-...] focus and direction, we know that fusion energy research could be accelerated ASP's report «Fusion Power — A 10 Year Plan to Energy Security» provides an aggressive, but doable, timeline for research and -LSB-...]