SOFT 2024 Innovation Prize Winners Announced

The European Commission has revealed the winners of the 2024 SOFT Innovation Prize, recognizing groundbreaking projects that advance fusion research and foster collaboration between researchers and industry. Funded by the EU’s Euratom Research and Training Programme, these awards support innovative ideas with market potential in fusion energy.

Sixteen exceptional scientists receive the EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grant

Sixteen talented scientists receive EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants The EUROfusion consortium for the realisation of fusion energy has awarded sixteen EUROfusion “Bernard Bigot” Researcher Grants (ERG) to talented post-doctoral researchers across Europe. The ERG grants enable early-career researchers to develop innovative ideas and techniques to advance EUROfusion’s Roadmap to Fusion Energy. Fusion energy holds […]

Key technical review for European fusion strategy

Over the course of the past 15 months members of the EUROfusion DEMO Central Team, supported by a number of experts in the EU labs, have been engaged in carrying out a feasibility study for a 14 MeV-based Volumetric Neutron Source (VNS) device. This activity, led by Gianfranco Federici, Head of the ITER Technology and DEMO Preparation Department (ITD), was initiated by the EUROfusion General Assembly in July 2023 following the EUROfusion Breeding Blanket Working Group recommendation.

Wendelstein 7-X starts new experimental campaign

After a one-year maintenance phase, the world’s largest and most powerful stellarator resumes experimental operation with significant improvements. One of the goals: The plasma temperature is to be increased step by step.