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Gas injection setup in new fusion system is guided by public-private research![]() ![]() Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 26, 2025 When the plasma inside a fusion system starts to misbehave, it needs to be quickly cooled to prevent damage to the device. Researchers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems believe the best bet is a massive gas injection: essentially, a well-timed, rapid blast of cooling gas inside their fusion system, which is known as SPARC. But how many gas valves does it take to quickly tame a plasma that is hotter than the sun? The team has to strike the perfect balance: with too few valves, some parts of SPARC might over ... read more |
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![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 24, 2025 BODY TEXT: A longstanding barrier to the production of nuclear fusion fuel may have been overcome, as researchers from ETH Zurich and Texas A and M University have unveiled a method for isolating li ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025 A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) professor has secured an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to investigate novel methods for recovering uranium from industrial wastewate ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 Donald Trump has told Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States could own and run Ukraine's nuclear power plants as part of his latest bid to secure a ceasefire in Russia's invasion of its neighbor. ... more ![]() ![]() Oslo (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said he could not legally negotiate ownership of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which President Donald Trump suggested Washington could take over. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 After years of dedicated research, scientists at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have perfected a method to create the specialized fuel necessary for the world's first critical fast-spectrum molten ... more |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 When Zoe Fisher was in fourth grade, her art teacher asked her to draw her vision of a dream job on paper. At the time, those goals changed like the flavor of the week in an ice cream shop - "zookee ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 Framatome has reached a key milestone in nuclear fuel advancement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accepting its topical report on "High Burnup for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 Sweden has committed to storing its high-level radioactive nuclear waste within a sealed bedrock repository for the next 100,000 years. Given its prolonged hazardous nature, a crucial challenge rema ... more ![]() ![]() Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 10, 2025 To develop a practical fusion power system, scientists need to fully understand how the plasma fuel interacts with its surroundings. The plasma is superheated, which means some of the atoms involved ... more |
![]() Helsinki (AFP) Mar 10, 2025 About 100 cubic metres of "radioactive coolant" leaked from Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, operator TVO said Monday, adding that the incident posed no safety risk. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Dhaka (AFP) Mar 10, 2025 An expert team was in Bangladesh on Monday to sign off on the South Asian country's first nuclear power plant ahead of the contentious facility's expected operational start later this year. ... more ![]() ![]() Madrid (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 Spain, a European renewable energy leader, is coming under increasing pressure from the right and business groups to reverse its plans to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2035. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Japan's top court said Thursday it had finalised the acquittal of two former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant charged with professional negligence over the 2011 meltdown. ... more ![]() ![]() Boston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 High-temperature superconducting magnets made from REBCO, an acronym for rare earth barium copper oxide, make it possible to create an intense magnetic field that can confine the extremely hot plasm ... more |
![]() Rome (AFP) Feb 28, 2025 Italy's cabinet opened the door Friday to a return to nuclear power, aiming to overturn nearly 40 years of opposition - though experts say any revival is at least a decade away. ... more ![]() ![]() Dhaka (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 Bangladesh's interim government praised on Wednesday Moscow's "important" backing of a controversial nuclear plant during the first visit by the director of Russia's state-owned Rosatom since Dhaka's revolution last year. ... more ![]() ![]() Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2025 Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will play a key role in the newly launched Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives, a DOE initiative de ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2025 The WEST tokamak, operated at the CEA Cadarache site in southern France, has set a new benchmark in nuclear fusion research by maintaining a plasma for an unprecedented 1,337 seconds on February 12. ... more |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2025 Creating and sustaining fusion reactions - essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth - is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard PhD '12, a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma ... more ![]() ![]() Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan (AFP) Feb 19, 2025 The UN nuclear watchdog chief visited Japan's stricken Fukushima plant on Wednesday, the day after Tokyo approved an energy plan that marks a return to nuclear power. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Feb 19, 2025 French nuclear giant Orano said Wednesday it had nearly tripled its profits in 2024 thanks to contracts with Japanese utilities and a rise in the price of uranium. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Feb 18, 2025 French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Tokyo (AFP) Feb 18, 2025 The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster. ... more |
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![]() Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Switzerland struck a deal with Kazakhstan to buy uranium directly from the world's largest producer for the first time as Bern seeks to relaunch its nuclear power industry, Kazakhstan's national uranium mining firm said on Monday. ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2025 GE Vernova's nuclear division, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), has taken a significant step forward in its efforts to deploy Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK. The company has signed new Memo ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2025 A Russian attack drone struck the shelter surrounding the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said early Friday. ... more ![]() ![]() New Delhi (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded a whistle-stop diplomatic tour Friday having secured significant pledges of support from Washington and Paris to help step up his country's nuclear energy programme. ... more |
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