Women in Fusion initiative website launched
Women in Fusion (WiF) has launched a website today where members can join a new global network for gender parity in fusion, improving diversity and increasing the visibility of women’s contributions to fusion. With this new website everyone interested in WiF’s mission can join the Women in Fusion community.
“Sometimes you need to inject some pragmatism”
On 4 July 2022, Italian plasma physicist Prof Ambrogio Fasoli (Swiss Plasma Center / EPFL) was unanimously re-elected as chair of EUROfusion’s decision-making body, the ‘general assembly’ of 31 members from 29 countries. We talk to Fasoli about leading such a diverse band towards realising fusion energy.
A camera to see ITER neutrons
Inside the ITER tokamak, there will be many diagnostic devices that will be the “eyes and ears” of the machine. They will inform experts on the relevant parameters of the plasma to control the fusion reaction. As it takes place, neutrons of 2.5 MeV and 14 MeV will be produced in the vacuum vessel. The […]
COMPASS disruptions help to advance ITER
Scientists from the COMPASS tokamak at IPP in Prague and the ITER Organization have performed a set of experiments to improve the understanding of plasma disruptions. This joint effort has provided the first experimental evidence of a physical limit to the flow of electric currents between the plasma and tokamak components during these events. This finding will help scientists to refine models and provide improved predictions of plasma dynamics and the associated forces on in-vessel components during ITER disruptions.
On the way to the next stellarator generation
How can even better stellarators be built in the future? This is the key question that an international group of theoretical physicists pursued at the Simons Workshop at IPP in Greifswald. The two-week format was the culmination of a scientific collaboration that is probably unique worldwide – funded by the Simons Foundation.
Europe ready to light up blazing fire of negative ions
Unlike most fires that we fight to put out, this is one that engineers have been working hard to start. It will be essential to the success of ITER so as to raise the temperature of the super-hot plasma to approximately 150 million °C. Basically, beams will need to be powerful enough to help individual […]
Calls for early-career grants 2023 opened
The calls for the EUROfusion Engineering Grants and the EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants have been opened, for projects to start in the first half of 2023.
Matthijs van Berkel receives grant to develop holistic fusion control system
DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel receives a prestigious Vidi from the Dutch National Research Council NWO. With the grant of 800,000 euros, he and three team members can spend five years developing a control system for the regulated firing of ice-cold hydrogen pellets in fusion reactors.
The state of the art for DEMO
A special issue of the scientific journal Fusion Engineering & Design presents the state of the art in designing Europe’s demonstration fusion power plant DEMO.