Sentences with phrase «in magnetic fusion»

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.

The next major experimental step in magnetic fusion is ITER — the international experiment that will generate 500 megawatts of fusion power, at a physical scale of a power plant.

We are unaware of any major project failures in magnetic fusion research.

Further, the fact that conquering this complex problem in laser fusion has not been «on schedule» has nothing to say about progress in magnetic fusion — it has been and continues to be remarkable.

This focus in magnetic fusion has driven the development of a new scientific field, plasma physics, with huge benefits for science in general — from understanding cosmic plasmas to employing these hot, ionized gases for computer chip manufacturing.

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

He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013, with the APS citing his «innovations in magnetic fusion issues» and «seminal contributions» to fields ranging from x-ray lasers to plasma - lithium interactions.

Not exact matches

The giant ITER project in France, which pursues a magnetic fusion technique, has been delayed by huge cost overruns and the ongoing European debt crisis.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program in the south of France will use magnetic fusion and employ strong magnetic fields to hold and fuse hydrogen plasma.

The breakthrough, he adds, has been an evolutionary one in the development of the controls needed to manipulate the magnetic fields to the temperatures (millions of degrees) and pressures in which fusion happens.

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

On Earth, researchers create fusion in facilities like tokamaks, which control the hot plasma with magnetic fields.

In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.

Although the ions are not the most numerous constituents in the atmosphere the electro - magnetic interactions between ions and aerosols compensate for the scarcity and make fusion between ions and aerosols much more likely.

Targeted biopsy using new fusion technology that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrasound is more effective than standard biopsy in detecting high - risk prostate cancer, according to a large - scale study published today in JAMA.

One of the biggest ongoing projects is ITER in France, an international effort to build the first magnetic fusion reactor that pumps out more energy than it consumes.

In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.

But if we do away with solid vessels and use magnetic fields (such as in fusion reactors) instead, then higher temperatures can be reached.

In the United States, government - funded labs are simultaneously pushing two tracks — inertial fusion and magnetic confinement fusion — but neither with the vigor needed to advance the field meaningfully, according to scientists.

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.

Since the operating temperature for fusion is in the hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, hotter than any known material can withstand, engineers found they could contain a plasma — a neutral electrically conductive, high - energy state of matter — at these temperatures using magnetic fields.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

ITER, which will be finished in 2019 or 2020, will attempt fusion by containing a plasma with enormous magnetic fields and heating it with particle beams and radio waves.

The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.

In fact, some of the more promising technologies involved with nuclear fusion research use magnetic fields to contain plasmas.

Aiming for the achievement of fusion energy, research on confining a high temperature, high density plasma in a magnetic field is being conducted around the world.

«The Department of Energy sponsors all the magnetic fusion research in the country.

Research in magnetic - confinement fusion has produced excellent results.

Each of these spinning magnetic storms is the size of Europe, and together they may be pumping enough energy into the solar atmosphere to heat it to millions of degrees — a power that leads one scientist to suggest we could mimic these solar tornadoes on Earth in the quest for nuclear fusion power.

The latest advancement in prostate cancer detection is magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound fusion - guided biopsy, which offers benefits for both patient and physician.

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

In 1958, magnetic fusion research was declassified, allowing all nations to share their results openly.

Through its efforts to build and operate magnetic fusion devices, PPPL has gained extensive capabilities in a host of disciplines including advanced computational simulations, vacuum technology, mechanics, materials science, electronics, computer technology, and high - voltage power systems.

Heliophysics plays out on scales ranging from the fusion of subatomic particles taking place in the heart of the sun to the grand sweep of magnetic storms that can engulf entire planets.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is located at 100 Stellarator Road off Campus Drive on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J. PPPL researchers collaborate with researchers around the globe in the field of plasma science, the study of ultra-hot, charged gases, to develop practical solutions for the creation of magnetic fusion energy as an energy source for the world.

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.

This approach to fusion differs from experiments on the NSTX - U, which confines low - density plasma in magnetic fields to produce fusion reactions.

Physicist Sam Lazerson of the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has teamed with German scientists to confirm that the Wendelstein 7 - X fusion energy device called a stellarator in Greifswald, Germany, produces high - quality magnetic fields that are consistent with their complex design.

The concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

Stellarators are fusion devices that use twisting, potato chip - shaped magnetic coils to confine the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in a three - dimensional and steady - state magnetic field.

Originally proposed in a 2010 Sandia theoretical paper, the concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder (called a liner) as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

The collaboration will study fusion in a relatively unexplored intermediate density regime between the lower - than - air density of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) that is studied at the ITER project in southern France, and the greater - than - solid density of laser - driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Stellarators are fusion facilities that confine plasma in twisty magnetic fields, compared with the symmetrical fields that tokamaks use.

He headed the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, then the largest magnetic confinement fusion facility in the U.S., from 1991 to 1997.

Plasma churns and pulls in different directions around the sun, and the enormous heat produced by the nuclear fusion at the core plays along these currents to create magnetic fields.

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.

A tokamak, the most advanced magnetic fusion concept, uses magnetic fields in a donut - shaped ring to confine, heat, and squeeze plasma until it ignites, and then holds the burning plasma in place.

«On the one hand, the U.S. is a major participant in ITER, the international tokamak project located in France that's studying magnetic fusion.»