Sentences with phrase «international fusion projects»

Reyes has more than 12 years of experience in international fusion projects...

Both Republicans and Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives spending panel yesterday questioned the Department of Energy's (DOE's) plan to help pay for an international fusion project by shutting down a U.S. - based fusion machine.

Oak Ridge also serves as the main office for the U.S. team working on the international fusion project ITER, which is under construction in Cadarache, France.

As senior advisor, he worked on a variety of topics and special projects for the director including updating the DOE scientific integrity policy, the ITER international fusion project, and COMPETES act reauthorization.

Congress continued to show skepticism over the controversial international fusion project ITER by providing $ 115 million for the U.S. contribution, a 23.3 reduction from last year's level.

Not exact matches

However, the bill also contains language threatening to withhold the US contribution to ITER, the multibillion - euro international fusion consortium, if the beleaguered project, which is 11 years behind schedule, does not implement management changes.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, the administration seems ready to stay with ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction near Cadarache in France, as it allots $ 63 million for the project.

In 1985, Reagan, Gorbachev, and other world leaders launched the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion energy project.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

A $ 12 billion worldwide attempt to generate power from nuclear fusion was signed into existence today by ministers from the project's seven international partners — China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.

For more than 18 months the European Union has been trying to find $ 1.3 billion to pay for its 2012 - 13 contribution to the ITER fusion reactor, a $ 16 billion international project now being built in France.

ITER, the international fusion reactor project in France, is reeling from an assessment that found serious problems with the project's leadership, management, and governance.

* Update, 28 February, 3 p.m.: The executive summary of the report on management of the international ITER fusion reactor project was published today by The New Yorker.

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.

«The restructured U.S. program will strive to remain a credible partner in the international fusion program that includes both ITER and many smaller projects in all areas of fusion science and technology.

Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.

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.

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.

They will join a network of internationally recognized researchers who will consult with ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in France, on plans and components for the project, which is designed to demonstrate the practicality of fusion energy.

The findings range from a breakthrough for stabilizing fusion plasmas to good news for the international ITER project going up in France to new thoughts about the chances of life on planets circling nearby stars.

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.

«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.»