Sentences with phrase «fusion research at»

Magnetic fusion research at Princeton began in 1951 under the code name Project Matterhorn.

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

Within the year, Hagelstein says, he plans to begin conducting cold fusion research at MIT, an institution that once held a ceremonial wake in cold fusion's honor.

It's worth noting the team that brought the company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.

Not exact matches

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.

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

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.

The Department of Energy's science budget would remain flat at $ 5.1 billion, although the spending deal approved by Congress would reverse cuts to nuclear - fusion research that were sought by the White House.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

The Department of Energy offers several research stints, including one at its magnetic fusion facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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.

Read about the latest fusion research efforts at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) home page.

Educational Opportunities at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, one of America's foremost fusion research facilities.

Michael McKubre is an electrochemist who specialises in cold fusion at the independent, non-profit research institute SRI International in Menlo Park, California

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 research at IPP's Garching, Greifswald, and Berlin branches concerns the physical basis of a fusion power plant.

The president's request also calls for cuts to fusion work at NIF and an immediate axing of funding to the Nike laser at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. «The loss of NRL and eventual loss of LLE would greatly reduce the physics capability and innovation in the ICF program,» says NRL's Stephen Obenschain.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

The need to compensate the runner - up «has turned necessity into advantage for the fusion program,» says Günter Janeschitz, head of fusion at Germany's Karlsruhe research center.

In his opening statement at the bill's markup, Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ) noted that, «within science research, funding for the domestic fusion program is restored to last year's level, and the international fusion program is increased to come closer to our commitments.»

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

Anthony Webster describes his work at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire and provides an overview of the state of fusion research.

Research presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2014 used a newly designed test for K: B fusion to show that point mutations lead to a more dangerous form of the disease than does K: B fusion.

Research at the facility could speed the development of abundant, clean fusion power.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

In the past 15 years, research in the U.S. and other countries has increased by 10,000,000 times the fusion power level produced in experiments, and we have now achieved production of 10 megawatts of fusion power on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at Princeton.

He is a contributing editor for Scientific American and editorial director at Intellectual Ventures, a research and investment firm that has a spin - off company working on fission (not fusion) power.

The program saw an increase in 2015 partly as a result of Congress's desire to maintain a domestic fusion research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Lee Gyung - Su, a research fellow at NFRI and a former chairman of the ITER Management Advisory Committee, says that Korea is desperately in need of the energy that fusion could provide.

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.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

«This research is an outcome of a fantastic fusion between my colleagues, which include biologists in my lab, chemists in the Itami lab, as well as the Molecular Structure Center at ITbM,» says Higashiyama.

New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.

The collaborative nature of fusion research continues today, with PPPL at the forefront.

Here they talk about the cool science they did at the Lab, which is devoted to fusion energy and plasma science research.

There will also be lectures by top physicists and engineers that will offer a more in - depth look at the magnetic fusion research taking place at PPPL and some of the related projects.

Prions have been the cold fusion of infectious disease research, but the Chicago researchers have proved that prion - like elements exist — at least in yeast.

Scientists at the University of Rochester have taken a significant step forward in laser fusion research.

Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 6,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines.

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.

«Creating a high - output reaction in a MagLIF plasma at Z should demonstrate the promise of the broader field of research we call magneto - inertial fusion — a potentially inexpensive form of fusion,» said project lead and Sandia manager Dan Sinars.

The method contrasts with the research done at PPPL and other laboratories, which controls plasma with magnetic fields and heats it to fusion temperatures in doughnut - shaped devices called tokamaks.

But after staging at Michelin - starred chef David Thompson's Sailors Thai in Sydney and multiple research trips to Thailand, Fischer was able to create an experience that is neither authentic nor fusion nor copycat.

The research into the notion of the ephemeral and into the ideas of the fusion of various art disciplines, along with the research into a new understanding of the surrounding stand at the core of sculptural production today.

To Prof. John Holdren: I am a graduate student of U.C. Berkeley doing thesis research on magnetic fusion energy (MFE) at the DIII D tokamak in San Diego, CA.

The timescale to commercial fusion therefore extends until at least the middle of this century, depending strongly on the political will to invest in this area of research.

At this moment, research investment by the rest of the world — China, Korea, the EU — is surging in magnetic fusion, while the U.S. investment is stagnating.

6) More research funding into improved nuclear energy makes lots of sense (fast breeder, thorium, nuclear fusion, etc.) 7) Preparation for natural weather disasters and adaptation to whatever climate Nature (or anyone else) throws at us both make imminent sense, as our hostess has stressed.

«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.