Sentences with phrase «international fusion research»

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Users of NIF include scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, worldwide fusion energy and high - energy density science research centers, academia, and other national and international facilities.

NIF users include scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, worldwide fusion energy and high energy density science research centers, academia, and other national and international sources.

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.

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

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

Young scientists in fusion research are watching closely the ratification of the joint implementation agreement on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) as the next major step for the development of fusion.

... The agreement also calls for exploring cooperation in other research areas, such as neutrino astronomy and fusion research, and even «facilitating» Iran's participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, being built in France.»

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.»

An international research team has observed cell fusion in flowering plants for the first time in more than a century.

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.

Europe's largest fusion facility, the Joint European Torus (JET), is sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a legal limbo that could halt vital research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.

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.

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.

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.

This eclectic mix of ingredients will be turned into ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor — the next big thing in nuclear fusion research.

As a result, one leading national laboratory began to impose mandatory 2 - day - per - month «unpaid holidays» on its science staff, several laboratories began laying off researchers, the U.S. portion of the international program to develop plentiful energy through nuclear fusion was reduced to «survival mode,» America's firms continued to spend three times more on litigation than research, and many young would - be scientists presumably began reconsidering their careers.

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.

Over the past decade, a number of both domestic and international strategic planning activities have highlighted PMI as a major knowledge gap and recommend that it be a priority for fusion research towards ITER and conceptual prototype reactors.

Two major fusion research reactors are being built over the next decade — the international ITER magnetic confinement reactor (for $ 5 to 10 billion) and the US National Ignition Facility (NIF — $ 2 to 5 billion) to study «inertial confinement».