Sentences with phrase «fusion research by»

The Obama Administration has proposed slashing spending on the domestic fusion research by 16 % in the 2013 fiscal year that begins on 1 October and is using the savings to help pay for the U.S. contribution to the international fusion experiment ITER, under construction in Cadarache, France.

Not exact matches

America has six private - sector fusion projects underway, according to a new report by the research firm Third Way.

Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.

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 nuclear scientists are waiting to see how South Korea's new energy policy, due by the end of the year, might affect research, including work on fusion reactors.

Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy.

As research continues in other fusion installations worldwide, DEMO will put fusion power into the grid by the middle of this century.

If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.

When the full extent of the cost overruns became apparent last year, the European Union found that its funding pot for fusion research, which runs to the end of 2013, was short by $ 1.3 billion.

A. Cho's story «Commitments, ideology clash over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of Science in a flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.

In some cases, it is embodied in areas of research like cold fusion / LENR that simply will not go away, even when given up on as false by a majority of scientists.

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.

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.

Fusion research cuts — Representative Don Beyer (D — VA), a new member of the House, asked about the reasoning behind a requested cut in DOE's fusion program budget, which would decrease by 10 % under the request — the only loser in the Office of Science.

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.

An American research team in January discovered a way to initiate nuclear fusion reactions in a process called «fast ignition» by using a high - intensity laser, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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.

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

The community focused on broad research areas critical to moving the field into the burning plasma science era when there will be a strong focus on the creation and study of plasmas where the energy to sustain fusion reactions is generated by the plasma itself.

Research conducted by Jian - Hua Luo, M.D., Ph.D. of the Pittsburgh School of Medicine is the first time gene editing has been used to specifically target cancer fusion genes, which are hybrid genes discovered in a wide array of solid tumors1.

And you recently had an article on your own blog where you spoke of some recent developments in fusion power research by Dr. Robert Bussard as «the truly epochal moment of the 21st century; a liminal moment.»

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.

While we support continued research into geoengineering (as well as into fusion) we believe the prospects for such research to result in solutions to accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be vastly overstated by the Copenhagen Consensus.

Koonin had become deeply concerned with energy issues and climate change through Jason, through his work on US Department of Energy fusion research committees, and through his own research studying «earthshine» (a phenomenon that allows the state of the earth's climate to be monitored by the brightness of sunlight reflected off the earth onto the dark part of the lunar disk).