ENEA, EUROfusion and Cineca signed agreement to develop a new 50 million euro supercomputing service in Italy
ENEA, EUROfusion and CINECA signed an agreement which provides for an investment of 50 million euros over 5 years to build a latest generation supercomputer for fusion energy research.
UM and MCST join forces to represent Malta within the EUROfusion programme
Malta’s participation within the EUROfusion programme was announced in an event held at the Villa Bighi chapel, in Kalkara on Friday 28 April 2023. The University of Malta together with the Malta Council for Science and Technology, represented by Rector, Prof. Alfred J. Vella, and MCST Chairperson, Dr Tonio Portughese, respectively, addressed those present in […]
New discovery points the way to more compact fusion power plants
An accidental discovery at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) might let fusion researchers bring their 100-million-degree plasma far closer to the wall of their tokamak devices. The finding was published in the prominent journal Physical Review Letters and could make it possible to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactors for energy production.
Using fusion to track groundwater flows
PhD graduate Ricky van Kampen at DIFFER developed a smart and fast technique to determine parameters that describe transport processes. That let him predict how heat and particles spread through a fusion reactor, but also how polluted groundwater can flow into a river.
Early-career fusion researchers encouraged to apply now for the 2024 EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants.
EUROfusion has launched the call for applications for the EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants. These grants will fund up to ten outstanding early-career researchers to conduct research projects starting in the first half of 2024. The EUROfusion grant will cover their salaries under the EUROfusion funding rules as well as contribute to their research activities […]
International materials facility IFMIF-DONES starts construction phase
As an acronym it’s a bit of a mouthful, but IFMIF-DONES has a lot to say: the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility: Demo Oriented NEutron Source is the world’s only scientific infrastructure where materials for future fusion power plants can be tested and qualified for the demonstration fusion power plant DEMO. On 16 March the […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Europe’s Most Intense Neutron Source
Frascati Neutron Generator marks three decades of powering materials research for fusion devices with its 14 MeV neutron beams.
Celebrating Women in Fusion: Launch of Mentoring Program
EUROfusion celebrates International Women’s Day and supports the launch of the new Mentoring Program set up by Women in Fusion.
Wendelstein 7-X reaches milestone: Power plasma with gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Greifswald nuclear fusion experiment has surpassed an important target. In 2023, an energy turnover of 1 gigajoule was targeted. Now the researchers have even achieved 1.3 gigajoules and a new record for discharge time on Wendelstein 7-X: the hot plasma could be maintained for eight minutes.