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Fusion project ITER presented to European Industry
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| Fusion & PoliticsPress releases
Over six hundred representatives from European industry and fusion research institutes gathered in Barcelona on 13/14 December, for a two-day workshop...
India becomes full partner in fusion project ITER
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| Year of physics 2005Press releases
Yesterday, India was welcomed as a full partner to the international fusion energy project ITER. This decision was taken on December 6th, 2005, at the...
Interview with JD Lawson
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| Year of physics 2005
John D Lawson, well known for his derivation of the Lawson criterion - a fundamental criterion (or principle) in fusion research - originally trained...
50 years of Lawson criteria
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| Year of physics 2005
"In a terrestrial reactor of controllable size (...) it does not seem possible to contain neutrons, but it is not inconceivable that the charged...
Success of T-3 – breakthrough for tokamaks
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| Year of physics 2005
"Measurements have been made of the electron temperature and density of the plasma in the toroidal discharge apparatus Tokamak T3 at the Kurchatov...
JET demonstrates alpha particle heating
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| Year of physics 2005
In a magnetic confinement fusion reactor the plasma self-heating is provided by "alpha particles" - charged fusion products. JET unambiguously...
Discovery of E=mc2
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| Year of physics 2005
Albert Einstein was only 26 when he published the brief, 3-page article that announced the equivalence between mass and energy, known today as E=mc2...
Discovery of the energy source in stars
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| Year of physics 2005
“A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the sub-atomic energy which,...
The ITER initiative
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| Year of physics 2005
“The two leaders emphasized the potential importance of the work aimed at utilizing controlled thermonuclear fusion for peaceful purposes and,...
Growth of European fusion collaboration
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| Year of physics 2005
“Let me go back to 1958 when EURATOM was constituted having fusion as a modest element of the initial research programme. In September of the same...
Origin of the word “plasma”
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| Year of physics 2005
“We noticed the similarity of the discharge structures. (…) Langmuir pointed out the importance and probable wide bearing of this fact. We...
Discovery of the high confinement mode
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| Year of physics 2005
“At t=1.18 s, the density suddenly increases without modifications from the external controls. The gas valve closes, but nevertheless the...
Nobel Lecture of Hannes Alfvén
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| EiroforumPress releases
“It was the wonders of the night sky, observed by Indians, Sumerians or Egyptians, that started science several thousand years ago. It was the...
"Physics and Life"-Teachers Meet Scientists at Major EIROforum event
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| Press releasesEUROfusion
Year-long educational programme culminates at ESA 's ESTEC site with the unique "Physics on Stage 3" festival during the European Science and...
Fusion Down Under
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| EiroforumPress releasesFusion Spin-Off
Fusion research at EFDA-JET was featured on prime-time New Zealand TV this week in a breakfast TV item by Pat Pilcher, a Wellington based journalist...
"Physics and Life" for Europe's Science Teachers
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The EIROforum Contribution to the European Science and Technology Week 2003
Leading European research organisations team up in EIROforum
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EIROforum will be formally established today with the signature of the Directors General of the seven, European intergovernmental research...
Leading European Intergovernmental Research Organisations at FP6 Launch Conference
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| Press releasesEUROfusion
EIROforum at "European Research 2002" (Brussels, November 11-13, 2002)
Live Webcasts from CERN for European Science and Technology week
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| Press releasesEUROfusion
Visit http://www.cern.ch/sci-tech on 7- 8 November to find out what modern Europeans can't live without. Seven of Europe's leading Research...
World Record Plasma Discharge in Tore Supra
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On July 30th 2002, the engineers and scientists of the Association Euratom-CEA in Cadarache (France) have achieved a three and a half minutes long...
