Sentences with phrase «of fusion experiment»

Two years ago, two reports prepared by the National Academy of Sciences and a panel of specialists from within the Department of Energy came to the same conclusion, recommending that some details of the fusion experiments should be declassified.

«Over the years they have developed highly innovative and uniquely capable tools for analyzing the results of fusion experiments.»

Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories working on very different types of fusion experiments have begun a novel collaboration.

Physicists have long regarded plasma turbulence as unruly behavior that can limit the performance of fusion experiments.

The upgraded machine doubles the heating power, magnetic field strength and plasma current relative to its predecessor, and increases the duration of fusion experiments — or «shots» — to up to five seconds.

Not exact matches

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

I spoke with Moses on the significance of the record - breaking experiment, on what lies ahead for the fusion experiments and the problems of project - managing scientific discoveries.

Also backed by the United States, Russia, China and Japan, ITER is the largest of the various fusion experiments underway and proposes to trigger fusion using a super-conducting magnetic compression process.

They are operating on a fraction of the budget of the big public - sector fusion experiments (see my briefing from last August), yet the consensus among scientists who've reviewed its design for «magnetized target fusion» is that, to borrow a phrase from Captain James T. Kirk, it just might work.

In the coming series of posts, I'll introduce you to scientists who believe fusion is on par with the development of nuclear power or sending men to the moon, and scientists who think these experiments are a dead - end.

The negative publicity around the Cold Fusion experiments 20 years ago, which promised an electrochemical method of producing energy, will overshadow all future claims about fusion.

Laser absorption, power transfer, and radiation symmetry during the first shock of inertial confinement fusion gas - filled hohlraum experiments

Simultaneous neutron and x-ray imaging of inertial confinement fusion experiments along a single line of sight at Omega

Radiation hydrodynamics modeling of the highest compression inertial confinement fusion ignition experiment from the National Ignition Campaign

Demonstration of thermonuclear conditions in magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments

Detailed high - resolution three - dimensional simulations of OMEGA separated reactants inertial confinement fusion experiments

Development of a Bayesian method for the analysis of inertial confinement fusion experiments on the NIF

I believe that the sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.

Then I got into fusions of things and am still experimenting.

As an example of the use of the model, the core of the plasma inside the seven - story ITER tokamak, the international fusion experiment under construction in France, will have to be more than 10 times hotter than the core of the sun, whose temperature is 15 million degrees Celsius.

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

They are proceeding in parallel with the single most important experiment for the future of fusion power, the $ 12 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

For more than a decade, Iranian specialists in nuclear fusion experimented on aging tokamaks and other devices in seclusion, cut off from the global fusion community because of Iran's status as a nuclear pariah.

A new theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago, reigniting hopes of a clean - energy breakthrough.

► Also on Tuesday at ScienceInsider, Adrian Cho wrote that «[f] or the second year in a row, Senate budgetmakers have moved to pull the United States out of ITER, the huge and hugely over budget international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France.»

Although the fuel pellet yielded 17,000 joules of energy, the entire fusion experiment fell far short of breaking even.

To help pay for the ITER increase, DOE is proposing to shut down a fusion experiment known as the Alcator C - Mod at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

However, one quickly reaches the bounds of today's available computing power when large - scale experiments need to be modeled numerically while retaining all important physical effects, and exhaustive simulations of fusion reactor plasmas as a whole are still not feasible.

Fusion has been a political football in recent years because of the exploding cost of the U.S. contribution to ITER, the enormous international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France.

He points to the Fleischmann — Pons cold fusion experiments of the late 1980s.

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world's most expensive science experiment, in July.

In particular, they would require shuttering a major fusion experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and would lead to the layoff of 100 of 430 staff members at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

Experiments with actual fusion fuel — a mix of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium — began in the early 1990s in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) in Princeton, US, and the Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham, UK.

Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million - degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.

«Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion: Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million - degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilize the fusion experiments before energy is generated.»

In some fusion experiments, a fuel of two different forms of hydrogen is surrounded by a plastic layer that reaches conditions similar to the interior of planets during a short - lived compression stage.

Those cuts led to furloughs at Fermilab, layoffs at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California; and the suspension of work at Oak Ridge on the U.S. contribution to the international fusion experiment, ITER, to be built in Cadarache, France.

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.

Nagel likes to compare these LENR technologies to that of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a multination high - temperature fusion experiment based on well - understood physics — merging deuterium and tritium — being carried out in southern France.

Maintaining that exact geometry is crucial to the experiment's success, because leaks would rob the plasma of the pressure and energy needed for fusion.

A new experiment that measures the energy budget of a collapsing bubble for the first time indicates that so - called «bubble fusion» is unlikely to occur.

Moyer: So, for many years, ever since World War II, when people realized the power inherent here, they've dreamed of making a controlled fusion experiment.

White house officials are blocking the release of data from fusion experiments carried out at nuclear weapons laboratories in the US.

Controversy is the only thing assured to follow an experiment that so resembles the «cold fusion» fiasco of 1989, when Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann of the University of Utah said that they had discovered room - temperature reactions; the announcement became headline news but was soon discredited.

They believe that the experiments, in which laser beams power a fusion reaction, could reveal secrets of the hydrogen bomb.

And finally there was the follow - up study (not yet subjected to peer review) by another team at Oak Ridge that claimed that the evidence of fusion reactions disappeared when it repeated the experiment with different sensors and analyzed the data in a different way.

In the past 15 years, research in the U.S. and other countries has increased by 10,000,000 times the fusion power level produced in experiments, and we have now achieved production of 10 megawatts of fusion power on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at Princeton.

ITER — an international fusion experiment now under construction in the south of France — will probably cost $ 20 billion by the time it is finished in 2018.

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.

Budgetmakers in the U.S. Senate have moved to halt U.S. participation in ITER, the huge international fusion experiment now under construction in Cadarache, France, that aims to demonstrate that nuclear fusion could be a viable source of energy.