Sentences with phrase «magnetic fusion research»

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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

The Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience provides a detailed introduction to plasma physics and fusion research, including the «virtual tokamak» and the «virtual magnetic stability module.»

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.

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.

Most fusion research focuses on magnetic confinement, using powerful electromagnets to contain a thin plasma of hydrogen isotopes and heat it until the nuclei fuse.

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.

Research in magnetic - confinement fusion has produced excellent results.

New research suggests scientists are getting close to using magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control fusion reactions.

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.

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

A main goal of tokamak research is to use magnetic plasma confinement to develop the means of operating high - pressure fusion plasmas near stability and controllability boundaries while avoiding the occurrence of transient events that can degrade performance or terminate the plasma discharge.

Berkeley Lab's inertial fusion energy research has emphasized ion beams — focused by magnetic fields, not materials like glass, and accelerated by induction accelerators.

Papers, posters and presentations ranged from fusion plasma discoveries applicable to ITER, to research on 3D magnetic fields and antimatter.

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.

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.

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.

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».