Fusion in the news

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Update June 28th, 2011

Tianhe-I supercomputer used in nuclear fusion for first time
People’s Daily Online
It is the first time that the Tianhe-I supercomputer has entered into the realm of exploitation of nuclear fusion energy resources. So far there have been nearly a hundred registered users in Tianhe-I’s application fields. Meng Xiangfei, the director …

Senior, creating nuclear fusion, takes best in fair
East Oregonian
A senior at the Beaverton School of Science and Technology, Betton and his friends Eric Thomas and Demitri Hopkins presented a project that creates nuclear fusion using everyday materials. “The atmosphere was incredible. Everyone was working hard,” …

Professor Explains Role of Superconductivity in Clean Energy Production
AZoCleantech
He said that such development will enable manufacture of compact generators for use in wind turbines, to reclaim the energy from LNG evaporation and to produce superconductive magnets that are utilized in nuclear fusion. …

China Cranks Up Heat on Nuclear Fusion
Wall Street Journal (blog)
That has to be one question on the minds of scientists, researchers and politicians in the US as China unveils its latest attempt to reach for one of science’s brass rings: viable nuclear fusion technology. According to a report in the state-run China …

China to train 2000 nuclear fusion experts
Xinhua
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhuanet) — China is planning to train 2000 skilled experts to carry out research and development into a promising form of nuclear fusion that could become a major new source of power. The scientists and technicians will lead the …

Family Feud: White Dwarf Stars Battle It Out
Discovery News
So, if there’s no internal pressure from nuclear fusion, what keeps a white dwarf from completely collapsing in on itself in response to gravity? Degenerate matter, that’s what! This is what forms when the electrons in the hot gas of the star are dense …

Numbers The Sun, From Temperature to Solar Cycles to Fuel Supply
Discover Magazine
600 Million Amount of hydrogen fuel, in tons, that the sun converts to helium and energy through nuclear fusion every second. That is equivalent to the weight of all the coal burned in the United States in seven months. At 4.5 billion years old, …

High-Tech Cooperation
The Moscow Times
The research that we are carrying out is the future of nuclear energy,” said Giovanni Iannuzzi, deputy head of the mission at the Italian Embassy. Iannuzzi is talking about a nuclear fusion experiment called “Ignitor,” one of the most high-tech …

New bid to save European School
Oxford Mail
The school was set up in 1978 to provide for children of employees of the European Commission’s JET nuclear fusion project. But it is set to close because there are now not enough parents working there. Supporters are now desperate to ensure its legacy …

Shine Medical raises $11 million in venture funding
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Shine, formerly known as Phoenix Nuclear, is using its unique nuclear fusion technology to make molybdenum-99. The substance produces an isotope that’s critical for certain medical imaging tests that diagnose, monitor and treat some cancers, …

CDI unit to perform engineering for national lab
BusinessWeek
CDI Corp. said Monday its aerospace division will provide engineering services to a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory unit that is researching nuclear fusion. CDI said it has a 5-year agreement with the lab’s ignition facility in Livermore, Calif. …

Teen Scientist Develops Device to Fight Terrorism
PBS NewsHour
So basically, it’s a system that’s called an active interrogation system, and it uses my fusion reactor. I started building my fusion reactor when I was 11 years old, and when I was 14, I first “got” nuclear fusion – the youngest person in the world to …

Idaho research site hopes to continue quelling nuclear fears after Japan disaster
Twin Falls Times-News
INL focuses solely on research regarding biotechnology, energy and nuclear fusion, while also lending some facilities for military and university research. Here is a look at some of the projects INL showed off during a Thursday tour: INL scientists are …

Fusion Experiment Faces New Hurdles
New York Times
The technology would minimize the waste and storage issues faced by fission-based nuclear power plants, which split heavy atoms into smaller ones. The tipping point for nuclear fusion is “ignition,” the moment when the lasers release the same amount of …

Can one idea be energy’s holy grail?
CNN
A historic fusion breakthrough is “really close,” Wurden says, but developing a successful commercial fusion power plant is further off. “So, if somebody tells you they’re going to solve global warming with nuclear fusion three years from now just …

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Update May 15th, 2011

Braemar To Raise $300M For VC Fund
Emii.com
Braemar mainly invests between $1 million and $10 million into early stage companies, such as its nuclear fusion startup or ocean seeding company, Climos. Braemar, which has invested in more than 25 companies, recently invested in South San ..

Bootup: Amazon founder invests in Canadian fusion outfit
Financial Post
The 47-year-old Amazon.com chief executive and former Time Magazine Person of the Year has invested US$19.5-million in Burnaby, BC-based General Fusion Inc. to fund further research. Unlike the nuclear fission process of splitting an atom that occurs …

Nuclear Fusion In Four Years? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Is Betting On It
Fast Company
BY Ariel Schwartz Today Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 1000 liters–the equivalent amount of gas you would need to get the nuclear fusion power of one liter of seawater. Nuclear power is having a bit of a low moment these days. …

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Backing Fusion Power
The Gadgets
Today’s nuclear plants generate power from fission, which splits atoms to release energy as heat. The better version is nuclear fusion, which is what happens in the sun. Isotopes of hydrogen atoms fuse together to make helium. …

Jeff Bezos Just Shelled Out $19.5 Million for Nuclear Fusion–Is He Twisting …
Seattle Weekly (blog)
By Jonathan Kaminsky, Mon., May 9 2011 @ 10:00AM ​The Amazon hegemon, it was announced last week, put a significant amount of his own cash into a Canadian company, General Fusion, which is seeking to build a small-scale nuclear fusion power plant–the …

Green: On Our Radar: War-Torn Liberia Signs Timber Deal with E.U.
New York Times (blog)
[The Hill] General Fusion, a nuclear fusion energy start-up, receives nearly $20 million in venture capital funding, including an investment from the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The company is developing a reactor that achieves fusion by driving a shock …

China’s Upcoming Moon Mission to Seek Out Helium-3 Fusion Fuel
Inventorspot
That is, if said future depends on nuclear fusion for its source of electric power as many pundits are predicting. Trouble is, Helium-3 is extremely rare on Earth. Things are looking up, however… WAY up, to the Moon. The natural abundance of Helium-3 …

Dying Stars to Collide and Create Stellar Baby
Space.com
Our sun — and indeed, more than 90 percent of all stars in our galaxy — will one day end up as white dwarf stars, which are made up of dim, fading stellar cores where nuclear fusion has stopped. These cooling embers, which make up about 10 percent of …

Fusion goes forward from the fringe
msnbc.com
Plasma shines within EMC2 Fusion’s WB-7 device, the predecessor to the WB-8 inertial electrostatic confinement vessel currently being used for fusion experiments. By Alan Boyle A Navy-funded effort to harness nuclear fusion power reports that its …

Germany ‘not satisfied’ with nuclear fusion spending
EUobserver.com
(Photo: ITER) EUOBSERVER / BERLIN – Germany has said it is unhappy with the “exorbitant” cost of the EU’s international nuclear fusion project, Iter EU, and called for more transparency on spending. “The bigger a science project is – and in Iter, …

Perspective on: The future of fusion
PhysOrg.com
Fusion scientists, like you, have been working to produce fusion reactions for many decades. Why is it so hard to create fusion energy? In a nuclear fusion reaction, two atomic nuclei fuse and release energy. In a fusion reactor, the core will contain …

Feedback: Arguing Hummert’s oil and oxygen
The Daily Advertiser
Why isn’t there a “Manhattan Project” with the goal of taming nuclear fusion as an alternative clean energy source? The French seem to be the only ones with confidence in a fusion solution. Go stand outside without the benefit of the magnetic field …

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Update May 8, 2011

Jeff Bezos Invests $19.5 Million in General Fusion’s Nuclear Technology
Popular Science
By Clay Dillow Posted 05.05.2011 at 5:43 pm 6 Comments Home-Brewed Fusion General Fusion’s proof-of-concept device in the company’s austere headquarters, in Burnaby, British Columbia John B. Carnett Bring up the prospect of fusion power, and often eyes …

1 million mph — now that’s a fast-spinning star
msnbc.com
The nuclear fusion reactions that drove these stars also provided the universe with its first elements heavier than helium. A 12-billion-year-old globular cluster of stars known as NGC 6522 provided the basis for the proposal of spinstars. …

Project investigates net power from nuclear fusion
The Engineer
Engineers are investigating potential ways of sustaining electricity generation from nuclear fusion reactors, in anticipation of a demonstration plant coming online in the proceeding decades. In an EPSRC-funded project, researchers based at Queen Mary …

NRL Scientists Focus on Light Ions for Fast Ignition of Fusion Fuels
Business Wire (press release)
The fast ignition concept has been conceived as an alternative to other approaches for nuclear fusion energy. In the fast ignitor scenario a high-energy particle beam, driven by an ultrashort pulse laser, is deposited into a pre-compressed …

Nuclear fusion and technology for avoiding possible catastrophes
Top experts and other stakeholders in nuclear fusion, who met during the International Symposium ‘Plasmas and fusion energy: basic science and technology ‘, …

Book Review: Energy, Convenient Solutions by Howard Johnson
Tucson Citizen
He looks at the totality of energy sources, from animal dung to nuclear fusion, and examines the production, transmission, and use of energy, and the pros and cons of each. The book is about ideas and solutions to our energy problems. …

When oil supplies run down, you can forget freedom of the open road
The Detroit News
If scientists perfect nuclear fusion in the next decade or two, then you can ignore warnings that fossil fuels will run out by, say, mid-century, forcing a radical shakeout of our assumptions about easy transport. But given that nuclear fusion, …

Letter box
Brattleboro Reformer
Dr. Makhijani holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in nuclear fusion. As a result of hearing his talk, I have been dipping into his book, “Carbon-Free and …

Answers.com – Is fusion energy renewable energy
Nuclear energy as we use it now is from nuclear fission. Nuclear fusion is the joining up of nuclei rather than the splitting (fission), but it is not yet …

NIF overcomes some problems, receives mixed review from its DOE overseer
PhysicsToday.org (blog)
By Physics Today on April 21, 2011 2:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks In early May, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will resume their quest to attain a major milestone on the path to controlled nuclear fusion. …

EU Budget rise under ‘friendly fire’
PublicServiceEurope.com
Meanwhile, theGreens/European Free Alliance group hit out at the plan to increase funding for the ITER nuclear fusion project as well as cuts for energy …

Nuclear energy is worth the investment
Daily Cardinal
With nuclear fusion, reactions are created by superheating hydrogen atoms to the plasma state of matter, which causes them to fuse. …

Guest essay: Nuclear power too costly — in many ways
Brighton-Pittsford Post
Perhaps one day we will have nuclear fusion, a much safer form of nuclear power. But until then, better to relegate nuclear power plants to a future which …

Don’t make decisions on nuclear energy’s future based on emotion
Arizona Daily Star
At least until the ITER (the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor), under construction in France, can prove the viability of nuclear fusion power …

Industrial applications could boost fusion energy research
The Engineer
Path to power: Medical and waste applications could drive the development of nuclear fusion as an energy source. Stuart Nathan reports There’s a small part …

Fusion: Our 1st, best and only hope
WND.com
Even nuclear energy, with all its power, has just demonstrated the dark side of its potential. But that’s nuclear fission. I’ve just been learning about nuclear fusion. They are vastly different. And the latter, nuclear fusion, is the answer. …

Using Fusion to Propel an Interstellar Probe
Discovery News
Guest contributor Richard Obousy describes how a starship might harness the awesome power of nuclear fusion to travel to interstellar destinations. The Daedalus interstellar vehicle is designed to be propelled by igniting a series of fusion fuel …

Alum energizes SWHS students
Review Times
He works at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab where nuclear fusion energy, or the “energy that powers the stars,” is studied in depth. Since graduating from St. Wendelin in 2003, Myers studied engineering physics at Cornell University from 2003-2007 and …

Certainties of 1970s Energy Crisis Have Fallen Away
New York Times
Dolph Briscoe Jr., a Democrat, called for a federal Manhattan Project to find an environmentally friendly and secure mix of fuel sources, which would include solar, geothermal and nuclear fusion. Months before the 1973 embargo, Mr. Briscoe formed an …

Davidson Academy student detects radiation from Japan in Reno
Greenfield Daily Reporter
Wilson, who became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion two years ago, said a high-purity germanium spectrometer detected minuscule amounts of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131, cesium-137 and cesium-134. Cesium levels started going down, …

Public lecture: Fusion power and the era of burning plasmas
Media Newswire (press release)
(Media-Newswire.com) – A public lecture looking at fusion power will take place at the University of Bath on 30 March 2011. Fusion power is the generation of energy through nuclear fusion reactions. Scientists around the world are working to develop it …

Scientists Reveal Inner Secrets of Giant Stars
International Business Times
“Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores that powers nuclear fusion, and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Towards the end of their lives, red giants begin burning the helium in their cores,” …

Recent earthquake should generate reevaluation of current energy sources
The Trinitonian
Could we derive clean energy directly from nuclear fusion, like in the sun? Unfortunately, not yet. Our most viable ways for accomplishing this would require temperatures of tens or hundreds of millions of degrees, and there are technical problems with …

Guernsey-educated nuclear physicist gets national award
BBC News
Dr Ian Chapman was rewarded for his work on nuclear fusion at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Abingdon. The former Elizabeth College student presented his work to experts and 100 MPs at an event in the House of Commons, competing with 29 …

Guernseyman wins top science award
Channel Television
A Guernsey-born nuclear fusion researcher has won a top award by impressing members of the House of Commons. Dr Ian Chapman’s work earned him a Gold medal and £3000 in the ‘SET for Britain’ competition, which recognises early career researchers. …

Steve Connor: Working out what’s real in Brian Cox’s vivid universe
Independent
Last week I made another schoolboy error after I had read an article by a colleague who talked about nuclear fusion in relation to the Fukushima nuclear plant. I nearly fired off an angry email pointing out that it’s nuclear fission, not fusion. …

Boone grad working on new nuclear power method
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Tom Painter, a 1982 graduate of Daniel Boone High School, is part of a project that is looking to make nuclear fusion — the same power that fuels the sun — viable on a commercial scale. Today’s nuclear plants are powered through fission. …

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Update March 21st, 2011

Semi-annual Changes to the NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
The following 14 securities will be added to the Index:Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AATI), Active Power, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACPW), Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), Amtech Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYS), Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:BLDP), …

Physicists demonstrate conditions for laser-driven fusion
(PhysOrg.com) — Currently, commercial nuclear power plants generate electricity using nuclear fission, in which an atom’s nucleus is split into lighter nuclei. But scientists are also researching the reverse reaction, nuclear fusion, …

Princeton Alumni Weekly: Nuclear fusion’s potential
It is also true that Princeton is in a unique position with its Plasma Physics Laboratory to contribute to harnessing nuclear fusion to produce electricity. …

Leader visits strategic technology fair
Press TV
The roadmap is expected to achieve eight general goals in science and technology including education, defense, aerospace, and nuclear. The construction of nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion and manned missions to space are the main objectives of the …

Japan Nuclear Problems May Impact UCSD Project
KGTV San Diego
Additionally, some experts believe nuclear-related research could also be hurt or helped. Several years ago, three schools, including UCSD, received a $7 million federal grant to study nuclear fusion. In current nuclear plants, the process of fission …
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ITER Fusion Project Fills Top Management Slot
Science Now
The €16 billion ITER project is in the process of building an enormous fusion reactor at Cadarache in southern France so as to show that nuclear fusion is viable as a power source. Motojima took the reins last July after several turbulent years of …

Iran Joins Pioneering Countries in N. Technologies
Fars News Agency
During the exhibition which was attended by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran unveiled Million-electron-Volt (MeV) accelerator, semi-industrial units for nuclear-grade graphite and nuclear fusion machine and …

Crisis removes easy path to low-carbon world
The Australian
However, advances required in areas such as nuclear fusion have a very substantial scientific component. As a result, a large, if not overwhelming, share of the investment currently required to achieve atmospheric stabilisation could not be adequately …

Boone grad working on new nuclear power method
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Tom Painter, a 1982 graduate of Daniel Boone High School, is part of a project that is looking to make nuclear fusion — the same power that fuels the sun — viable on a commercial scale. Today’s nuclear plants are powered through fission. ..

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Update March 19th 2011

General Design Team for National Nuclear Fusion Reactor to be Founded in USTC
Anhui News
Talent conference on the research and development of fusion energy sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) was held in University of Science & Technology of China (USTC) March 17. MOST will depend on USTC to found general design team …

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Update February 26th 2011

Nuclear fusion project earns students chance to meet Obama
East Oregonian
“We used a nuclear fusion reactor that we developed. … We think this could be the future of energy. We honestly believe this design has the potential to …

Obama Requests $126M for Exascale Supercomputing Projects
eWeek
… Department of Energy proceeded with plans for two new IBM petaflop supercomputers. … such as virtual nuclear weapons testing, nuclear fusion research, …

BATTLE: Quasar vs Green Lantern
Comic Book Movie
Quasar once absorbed and released the entire energy output of a star, funneling the radiation, and nuclear fusion, passing entirely through the bands. …

February 24th: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun
By kortney.hogan
As you can imagine, the processes in nuclear fusion are complicated, and I’m not going to speak about them in detail. However, at each step, energy is released, either in the form of photons or as the kinetic energy of the particles …

Seeing inside the sun
BCLocalNews
They show the nuclear fusion zone in the core, where the energy is produced, how the energy gets transferred to what looks like the surface, and then radiated into space. How can we do this with any confidence? How do we know there is nuclear fusion …

ISU American Nuclear Society stresses nuclear energy’s positives
Iowa State Daily
“There’s two types of nuclear energy: nuclear fission and nuclear fusion,” said Gregory Maxwell, associate professor of mechanical engineering and adviser …

Europe to unveil low-carbon roadmap to 80% emission cuts
Click Green
“The electricity sector needs a radical energy policy change. … The EESC came out in favour of continuing research into nuclear fusion technology. …

Probably stupid idea about nuclear fusion. Workable? Rubbish?
The main problem in fusion seems to be keeping the plasma contained, so it doesn ‘t … Nuclear Fusion Energy. By VanderL in forum Astronomy. Replies: 16 …

This Week On The Space Show
Space Fellowship
… Directed Energy Weapons, and space rocket plume phenomenology, … and dealt with the magnetic confinement of plasmas for controlled nuclear fusion. …

EESC talks low-carbon energy system
EUcommerz
In its opinion on a low-carbon energy system by 2050 adopted at the … The EESC came out in favour of continuing research into nuclear fusion technology. …

Nuclear Fusion: Technology Information Sheet — SETIS
Nuclear fusion is an attractive long-term energy solution, although it is unlikely that the technology will be ready for commercial power generation in the …

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Update February 19th 2011

Climate is discussed at lecture
Columbia Daily Tribune
Yesterday, Brinkman presented a lecture “Science and Energy” to the public at … material or fusion energy, or power generated by nuclear fusion reactions. …

Research co-operation will focus on energy, says Commission
Europolitics.info
He cited carbon capture and storage, renewable energy and the ITER nuclear fusion project as examples. Health and food safety would be two other priority …

Harnessing the sun to power the future
McGill Daily
Any vision of how we will meet our energy needs in the distant future is difficult to imagine without harnessing the power of nuclear fusion. Fusion represents the ability to generate essentially unlimited energy from seawater, creating virtually no …

UK research company awarded £170000 for nuclear fusion technology
The company also announced a €110000 contract from ITER, a next generation international fusion energy researcher, to advise on diagnostics for measuring …

Super compact fusion reactor secures funding
The Engineer
The nuclear fusion reaction produces an abundance of high-energy neutrons which the novel technology exploits. Tokamak Solutions’ spherical fusion reactor …

Inspec and fusion – The IET
This leaves us with one other possible option, nuclear fusion, an energy source that has long been touted as the potential saviour of mankind but until …

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Berthoud Recorder
The gaseous shrouds are ionized by an extremely hot central source, the shrinking core of a star running out of fuel for nuclear fusion. Shining in the cosmic night, their simple symmetries are fascinating and have inspired this planetary nebula poster …

European School’s future back in balance
Herald Series
It also teaches children of staff working on the Joint European Torus nuclear fusion project at Culham. The 835-pupil school could close in 2017, because the JET project is being wound down and EU funding for the school is to end as a result. …

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Update February 12th 2011

A new use for those ‘unwanted’ neutrons
Financial Times
By Clive Cookson For more than half a century scientists and engineers have been seeking to generate electricity by taming nuclear fusion, the reaction that …

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Oversight Plan for the 112th …
Space Ref (press release)
Technical challenges have hampered our ability to harness nuclear fusion as an energy source. The Committee will continue to monitor progress toward nuclear …

Iran says it gains access to nuclear fusion technology: atomic organization
Xinhua
10 (Xinhua) — Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced Thursday the Islamic Republic has manufactured a machine to produce nuclear fusion laser. …

Iran claims ‘nuclear fusion mastered’
AFP
TEHRAN — Iran’s atomic body claimed on Thursday it has mastered the technology of nuclear fusion, in a declaration on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of …
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Iran makes new progress in nuclear, laser fusion devices
ISNA
This is the only device which can carry out nuclear fusion in radiation-free way. It is also used to sterilize medical equipment, foodstuffs as well as …

Historic nuclear fusion journal opens its archives
The Drum
IOP Publishing has announced that the complete archives of Nuclear Fusion, the nuclear industry’s leading journal has been made available online for the …

Russia takes a leading role in international physics projects
Russia & India Report
The CERN Large Hadron Collider has been launched, and controlled nuclear fusion work at Cadarache has gotten underway. Due to their ever-increasing …

Poster Award for Willem Haverkort at Physics@FOM congress
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
The research of Haverkort focuses on the tokamak design as a means to achieve controlled nuclear fusion. A tokamak contains a large magnet, in which a hot …

Medway science fair
Milford Daily News
Medway Middle School eighth-graders Andrew DiBiasco, right, and Ben Lagan explain their science fair project about particle physics and nuclear fusion as a …

Quickly reviewing the scale of money spent on different energy
Next Big Future
All the money on the smaller fusion programs would not pay for one year of work on the ITER and would not buy one conventional nuclear fission or coal or …

Device to reduce radioactive waste
Calcutta Telegraph
Swadesh Mahajan, a senior scientist at the Institute of Fusion Studies at the University of Texas and his colleagues have proposed a compact nuclear fusion …

The Audacity of General Fusion | Nuclear Fusion | BCBusiness
Nuclear fusion, the mother of all alternative energies, is a quandary that will take dozens of countries, hundreds of scientists, and billions of dollars to …

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Update February 2nd 2011

Future News: Fusion Power Not Producing Enough Energy
The Spoof (satire)
(Published 2098) – LONDONIA – After JET in the early 2020s finally achieved nuclear fusion, several other generators across the world have sprung up. …

One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion
Energy Digital
Nuclear fusion, the process of fusing two atomic nuclei together thus releasing large quantities of energy, is a power that the energy sector has long …

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics December 2010 Report
Next Big Future
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics are working towards commercial nuclear fusion using dense plasma focus fusion. They have their December, 2010 report. …

Warwick: Wave Power Could Contain Fusion Plasma
Science Business
… channel the flux and fury of a nuclear fusion plasma into a means to help sustain the electric current needed to contain that very same fusion plasma. …

Scientist offers India ‘ green’ nuclear technology
TMCnet
Nuclear fusion which does not produce waste is also possible, but scientists are far from developing a working fusion reactor. …

Reviewing the IEC fusion work mentioned in the George Miley Presentation
Next Big Future
There was a 98 page technical presentation from 2009 by George Miley on IEC nuclear fusion. I have embedded it below. It is related to a larger nuclear …

How to Build a Home-Made Fusion Reactor (No Kidding!)
The Green Optimistic
Get your white coat, your plastic gloves, glasses and turn off the lights… you have just made your first nuclear fusion reactor and you want it to work. …

Nasa names most absurd sci-fi film
The Sun
And Rachel Weisz’s Chain Reaction spiced up its plot about generating energy using nuclear fusion with a far-fetched kidnap. Donald Yeomans, head of NASA’s …