Sentences with phrase «fusion research funding»
Is fusion research funding of around a billion dollars per year for even 50 more years a reasonable gamble?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
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.
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.
Now, with tight funds, waning public patience and an increasingly urgent need for solutions to climate change, fusion research faces uncomfortable questions of which direction to go, how to get there and what gets left behind.
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.
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.»
The request came as the U.S. program was struggling to maintain a viable research program amid stagnant budgets and the growing financial commitment to ITER, which is consuming an increasingly large share of U.S. fusion funding.
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.
Still, the payoff could be huge: While mainstream fusion research programs are still decades from fruition, Lerner claims he requires just $ 750,000 in funding and two years of work to prove his process generates more energy than it consumes.
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.
In the future, the report envisions an extensive nuclear fusion research program centered around a national US fusion nuclear science facility, but this would require increased funding.
After reading yesterday's post on the brewing fight over funding for nuclear fusion research, Robert L. Hirsch, who directed the country's fusion energy program in the 1970s through the Atomic Energy Commission, got in touch to describe how his views of the prospects of harnessing fusion as a practical energy source have evolved.
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.
For example, the President should appoint a Fusion Power Commissioner to organize, streamline and, lead on fusion power development, the Congress should immediately increase funding for fusion research, and scientists should begin working with the private sector.