Sentences with phrase «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.

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

The occasion officially recognized a device that is the largest and most advanced fusion experiment of its kind in the world.

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 Cadarache, France.

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.

«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.

But the stellarator was not the only type of fusion experiment in the world.

He points to the Fleischmann — Pons cold fusion experiments of the late 1980s.

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

White house officials are blocking the release of data from fusion experiments carried out at nuclear weapons laboratories in the US.

Budgetmakers in the U.S. Senate have moved to halt U.S. participation in ITER, the huge international fusion experiment now under construction in Cadarache, France, that aims to demonstrate that nuclear fusion could be a viable source of energy.

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.

The biggest question in the budget remains the United States's contribution to ITER, the massive fusion experiment under construction near Cadarache in France.

When a failed nuclear fusion experiment results in an explosion that kills his wife, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) is transformed into Dr. Octopus, a cyborg with deadly metal tentacles.

ITER, funded by the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea, is scheduled to run its first fusion experiments in 2018 or 2019.

Laser - driven controlled fusion experiments are typically done at multi-hundred-million-dollar lasers housed in stadium - sized buildings.

In particular, they would require shuttering a major fusion experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and would lead to the layoff of 100 of 430 staff members at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

Nagel likes to compare these LENR technologies to that of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a multination high - temperature fusion experiment based on well - understood physics — merging deuterium and tritium — being carried out in southern France.

But unlike magnetically confined fusion research, laser fusion experiments in the US, Britain and France have been funded by the military as a way to study the physics of thermo - nuclear weapons.

An international fusion experiment called ITER, which means «the way» in Latin, is currently being built in Cadarache, France, and could create a plasma by the year 2025.

about Schweickhard «Schwick» von Goeler, inventor of groundbreaking diagnostics used to analyze fusion experiments worldwide, dies at 84

Also backed by the United States, Russia, China and Japan, ITER is the largest of the various fusion experiments underway and proposes to trigger fusion using a super-conducting magnetic compression process.

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.

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.

This is the target chamber (front) and ultra-high intensity laser (back) used in the micro-scale fusion experiment at Colorado State University.

Although the fuel pellet yielded 17,000 joules of energy, the entire fusion experiment fell far short of breaking even.

(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.

Research that compresses matter, like this study, also helps scientists understand and improve fusion experiments where forms of hydrogen combine to form helium to generate vast amounts of energy.

Once the voters have spoken, that's the question Congress will have to answer regarding the United States» participation in ITER, the hugely overbudget fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France.

The current budget of $ 18 billion (# 16 billion) for ITER, the 35 - nation tokamak fusion experiment at Cadarache, France, is paltry compared, for example, with the # 56 billion for the High Speed 2 railway north from London or the current estimated lifetime cost of a replacement for the UK's Trident nuclear missile submarines of # 167 billion.

These instabilities, called «Kelvin - Helmholtz modes» after physicists Baron Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, act like wind that stirs up waves as it blows over water and are for the first time found to be relevant for realistic fusion experiments.

Creating the new spectrometer are physicists Kenneth Hill and Manfred Bitter, whose diagnostic designs are used in magnetic fusion experiments around the world.

The Laboratory used higher quantities of tritium as a fuel, with the hydrogen isotope deuterium, for fusion experiments conducted on its Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor from 1993 to 1997.

Researchers have also explored the use of liquid lithium in the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade (NSTX - U), the laboratory's flagship fusion experiment, prior to its recent upgrade.

ITER is a large international fusion experiment aimed at demonstrating the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy.

Once the superconducting magnets are available, MIT and CFS say they will design and build a «compact and powerful» 100 MW fusion experiment called SPARC.

Reconnection produces northern lights, solar flares and eruptions, and geomagnetic storms that can snarl cell phone service, black out power grids and disrupt laboratory fusion experiments.

One of the main features of the Open House is the chance to see fusion experiments that are usually closed to the public, including the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX - U), which has been undergoing a $ 94million upgrade, and numerous smaller experiments at the Laboratory.

Recent fusion experiments on the DIII - D tokamak at General Atomics in San Diego and the Alcator C - Mod tokamak at MIT show that beaming microwaves into the center of the plasma can be used to control the density in the center of the plasma.

But the new spectrometer, which PPPL also installed on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), the Laboratory's key fusion experiment in the 1980s and 1990s, had a severe limitation.

Prager joined PPPL in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he had led the Madison Symmetric Torus fusion experiment and a center that studied laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

Avoiding or mitigating such disruptions, which occur when heat or electric current are suddenly reduced during fusion experiments, will be crucial for ITER the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.

To date, the most successful fusion experiments have succeeded in heating plasma to over 900 million degrees Fahrenheit, and held onto a plasma for three and a half minutes, although not at the same time, and with different reactors.