Fusion (Hot)

• Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble? - An overview of various approaches to useful fusion, including sonofusion, Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion, the $10 billion international Tokamac project. (NY Times; Feb. 27, 2007)

• Fusion > A brief history of fusion research - The first clues to how stars function were revealed in Einstein’s equation E = mc2, which predicted that a tiny amount of mass could, in principle, be converted into a tremendous amount of energy.  Tracking the progress through tokamak and ITER. (Europa.eu) (Thanks Tedd)

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  Inertial-Electrodynamic Fusion Device receives 2006 Technology of the Year Award by the International Academy of Sciences - Dr. Bussard and his team at Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation, after close to 20 years of hard work, have developed a revolutionary radiation-free fusion process that takes boron-11 and fuses a proton to it, producing, in its excited state, a carbon-12 atom. This excited carbon-12 atom decays to beryllium-8 and helium-4.  It was developed under a DOD contract and has recently been made public. (PESWiki; Jan. 2)

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  Colliding Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough - Toroid plasma technology by EPS remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using low-level background gas pressure; could provide non-polluting electricity and heat for homes, as well as motive power for vehicles and aircraft, at a fraction of the cost of conventional energy generation. (PESN; March 8, 2006)

• Laser vision fuels energy future - Researchers from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, working with partners from 14 countries, propose using lasers (project HIPER: High Power Laser Energy Research) to recreate the physical reactions at the heart of the Sun. (BBC News; June 6, 2007)

• Discharge test on Chinese "artificial sun" pending - Around August 15th, the first plasma discharge test on China's experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak (EAST) will be conducted. If successful, it will mean that the world's first nuclear fusion device of its kind is completed and will be able to go into actual operation.  (People's Daily; July 24, 2006)

• China to Build World's First "Artificial Sun" - EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak) to be constructed this Spring by the Institute of Plasma Physics will cost only 1/15^th - 1/20^th the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world. Could generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy. (Slashdot; Jan. 22, 2006)

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  Fusion > Sandia's Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin - The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants. (PESN; Mar. 8, 2006)
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• Nuclear fusion: A necessary investment (?) - On 21 November ministers from Europe, Japan, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America meet in Paris to sign an agreement to construct an international experiment on the scale of a fusion power plant. (BBC; Nov. 17, 2006)

• Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? - Researchers at General Atomics in San Diego have devised a method of keeping the plasma contained, preventing edge localized modes, which burst out and damage expensive components.  (New Scientist Tech; May 22, 2006) (See Slashdot discussion)

• The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to prove fusion's ability - MIT Technology Review article summarizes proposed method of using fusion to generate electricity.  See reactor image.  (Sept. 2005)

• Nuclear Fusion Project Bid Up in The Air - Japan backing out, turning to France to construct the 10 billion euro ($12.87 billion) experimental reactor that would operate at more than 100 million degrees Celsius to produce 500 MW of power.  Due to start in 2015, it would run for around 20 years. Project Web site: ITER.org (Reuters; May 5, 2005)

• Europe plans new type of fusion facility - Laser physicists in Europe propose a £500m facility to study a new approach to laser fusion. Facility could be operational in about ten years. (Slashdot; Sept. 5, 2005)

• Improved Controls for Advanced Tokamak Fusion Reactor - Researchers at UCSD and San Diego-based General Atomics have reported an improved control method for a type of nuclear fusion technology that confines a cloud of ionized hydrogen in a doughnut-shaped machine called a tokamak. (NewsWise; July 6, 2005)

• Teen creates nuclear fusion at home - After more than two years and 1,000 hours of research, and a little help from his dad, Thiago Olson, 17 has created what he calls "the Fusor."  Fusor.net lists him as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion  (Detroit Free Press; Nov. 19) (See Slashdot discussion)

• Elsevier launches High Energy Density Physics - World-leading scientific and medical publisher, announces the introduction of a new journal, to publish results on the physics of matter and radiation under extreme conditions such as when stars explode or hot nuclear fusion processes occur. (Feb. 5, 2006)

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