Sentences with phrase «magnetic fusion»

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

The goal for magnetic fusion is to generate roughly 10 times as much energy as is needed to contain the plasma.

I agree that the fusion program very much needs to pursue multiple approaches, even within magnetic fusion.

A major question in magnetic fusion is how to make the plasma and its surrounding walls work well together.

He will lead the PPPL communications team and create and implement a plan to increase the visibility of the Laboratory, especially its leadership role in the science and technology of magnetic fusion energy research and the science of plasma physics.

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

The Department creates computer programs that simulate the plasma inside magnetic fusion facilities and can be used to predict how the plasma will behave under different conditions.

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.

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.

The books describe where research on magnetic fusion energy comes from and where it is going, and provide a basic understanding of the physics of plasma, the fourth state of matter that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe.

Though inertial and magnetic fusion scientists have a bit of a rivalry, Prager said both deserve support.

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.

Scientists in the Department of Physics» York Plasma Institute (YPI) have received a # 1M grant from EPSRC to study power exhaust in hot magnetic fusion plasmas (10s of millions C).

Importantly, this non-event should not bear any relation to the fate of other vital work centering on an entirely different approach known as magnetic fusion.

Both inertial and magnetic fusion approaches can be modified for power production.

After decades of slow progress with doughnut - shaped reactors, magnetic fusion labs are gambling on a redesign.

Despite proposed cuts to the U.S. magnetic fusion program, a new report advocates a parallel effort to pursue fusion energy using the rival inertial confinement scheme.

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.

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.

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

about New books by PPPL physicists Hutch Neilson and Amitava Bhattacharjee highlight magnetic fusion energy and plasma physics

Heitzenroeder has contributed to the design and construction of many of the world's major magnetic fusion facilities during a storied 40 - year career at PPPL that includes more than 20 years as head of the Mechanical Engineering Division.

Dozens of PPPL scientists presented the results of their cutting - edge research into magnetic fusion and plasma science.

Researchers at the five - day conference, which ends Nov. 20, will attend nine half - day sessions featuring nearly 1,000 talks on subjects ranging from space and astrophysical plasmas to the challenges of producing magnetic fusion energy.

In a separate Dot Earth commentary concerning magnetic fusion on Oct. 19, Dr. Robert Hirsch, an administrator of the fusion energy program at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the 1970s, offers views reflecting the state of the field at the time of his departure from the AEC some 35 years ago.

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.

With our existing underpowered machines, magnetic fusion scientists are producing and producing close to fusion energy - grade plasmas around the world on a daily basis.

To Prof. John Holdren: I am a graduate student of U.C. Berkeley doing thesis research on magnetic fusion energy (MFE) at the DIII D tokamak in San Diego, CA.

Preventing such contamination will be crucial to the development of magnetic fusion energy.

But extensive peer review has found IEC far more difficult to achieve than the ITER and related approaches in magnetic fusion.

PPPL physicists contributed to papers, talks and presentations ranging from astrophysical plasmas to magnetic fusion energy during the 58th annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics.

PPPL has used such diagnostic systems, called X-ray crystal spectrometers, for decades to study the data from the laboratory's magnetic fusion research.

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.

Research and funding has been largely devoted to two other potential methods of attaining fusion power, inertial or laser fusion and magnetic fusion.

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

All U.S. research in magnetic fusion is funded by the DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences within the Office of Science, and that program is slated for sharp cuts in the president's 2013 budget.

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

As a result, the U.S. is unfortunately passing its traditional leadership in magnetic fusion to Europe and Japan.

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

Researchers designed an effective algorithm for the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade, a magnetic fusion reactor at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Magnetic fusion energy and the plasma physics that underlies it are the topics of ambitious new books by Hutch Neilson, head of the Advanced Projects Department at PPPL, and Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the Theory Department at the Laboratory.

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.

PPPL is the nation's leading center for the exploration of plasma science and magnetic fusion energy.

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.

The charge by some that both inertial and magnetic fusion have been beset with failure is unwarranted.

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.

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.