Sentences with phrase «own fusion research»

Fusion Power Associates» Dean, a 50 - year veteran of the research effort, believes there is a role for private companies in fusion research.

Ivanov had worked on fusion research in Russia and Germany.

It's worth noting the team that brought the company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.

(For more on the burgeoning field of fusion research, see this recent Fortune piece.)

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

In 2015, they held super-heated hydrogen plasma in a stable state for 5 milliseconds, which is a huge deal in the world of fusion research.

LHC has attracted many great minds, not to mention fusion research which could produce great wealth in the future.

The Department of Energy's science budget would remain flat at $ 5.1 billion, although the spending deal approved by Congress would reverse cuts to nuclear - fusion research that were sought by the White House.

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

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.»

Tabletop lasers focus light with the power of 1,000 Hoover Dams onto a tiny point for applications from physics and fusion research to medicine

Educational Opportunities at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, one of America's foremost fusion research facilities.

Fusion energy research would get a 4 % increase, to $ 395 million, including $ 63 million for the ITER fusion research reactor now under construction in France.

Now Martin Fleischmann is gone, what's in store for cold fusion research?

A fusion research program nurtured in isolation could blossom as Iran joins the ITER megaproject.

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.

Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ) is questioning DOE's plans to cut fusion research budget.

An even better long term solution might be to construct some mini-Suns right here on Earth — that's effectively the goal of nuclear fusion research, though practical implementation is still a ways off.

The laser, built for fusion research, has already shown the ability to fire 4 megajoules of infrared energy for up to 20 nanoseconds.

Now, with tight funds, waning public patience and an increasingly urgent need for solutions to climate change, fusion research faces uncomfortable questions of which direction to go, how to get there and what gets left behind.

Within the year, Hagelstein says, he plans to begin conducting cold fusion research at MIT, an institution that once held a ceremonial wake in cold fusion's honor.

... 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 2004 he and a group of fellow die - hard researchers tried to persuade the Department of Energy to reevaluate fusion research.

After pioneering work in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, a doughnut - shaped device called a tokamak was to become the dominant concept in fusion research.

Anthony Webster describes his work at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire and provides an overview of the state of fusion research.

With further increases in ITER payments required in coming years, can fusion research in the U.S. survive?

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.

The details won't be out for another week, but in their version of the 2013 budget for the Department of Energy (DOE), legislators on a spending panel in the House of Representatives would reverse dramatic cuts to the U.S. fusion research program that the White House proposed in February.

In the White House's proposed budget, spending on domestic fusion research would fall 16 % from current levels, to $ 248 million.

There was just this one problem: No other scientists could reproduce the two physicists» results, and cold fusion research took a huge P.R. hit.

When the full extent of the cost overruns became apparent last year, the European Union found that its funding pot for fusion research, which runs to the end of 2013, was short by $ 1.3 billion.

In fact, some of the more promising technologies involved with nuclear fusion research use magnetic fields to contain plasmas.

Does Iran have a fusion research program?

And its contributions are greatly anticipated for achieving new developments in fusion research around the world.

OTA's staff consists mostly of scientists and engineers who deliver some 40 to 50 technical reports a year to Congress on everything from fusion research to Indian archaeology.

Still, the payoff could be huge: While mainstream fusion research programs are still decades from fruition, Lerner claims he requires just $ 750,000 in funding and two years of work to prove his process generates more energy than it consumes.

These research results provide fundamental knowledge regarding the complete clarification of the «ion mass effect» which was an unsolved issue for many years in plasma physics and fusion research.

«Everyone is very happy,» says Alex Bradshaw, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, and chair of Germany's fusion research program.

Is fusion research funding of around a billion dollars per year for even 50 more years a reasonable gamble?

That's where fusion research is: How many miracles do you need?»

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

If the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union on 23 June, fusion research may be particularly hard hit.

Considering the obvious benefits of fusion energy and the considerable efforts spent trying to attain them, why hasn't fusion research so far produced better results?

Some lawmakers say it may be time for the United States to bow out, especially as the growing ITER commitment threatens to starve U.S. - based fusion research programs.

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.

(The White House proposed to cut $ 48 million in domestic fusion research.)

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

Even though DOE promised to limit spending on ITER to $ 225 million a year so as not to starve domestic fusion research efforts, that statement irked Senators Dianne Feinstein (D — CA) and Lamar Alexander (R — TN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, respectively.

The program saw an increase in 2015 partly as a result of Congress's desire to maintain a domestic fusion research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).