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New high-performance computing hub aims to harness the sun's energy
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EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy. As...

New code will bring better power plant designs in a fraction of the time
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Culham scientists are to develop a new software code capable of fast-tracking designs for future fusion power plants.

Can three-ion heating calm fusion plasmas?
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last updated: 03/23/2021
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How a clever plasma-heating technique may let fusion researchers study and calm their fickle plasmas.

30 years of ASDEX Upgrade
Created by Isabella Milch |
last updated: 03/22/2021
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Operating modes developed for JET, ITER and DEMO / only tungsten machine worldwide

Advanced computing grants for fusion
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last updated: 03/18/2021
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EUROfusion E-TASC enables 19 theory and advanced simulation projects

Hot idea: gold-streaked fusion implosions
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Can you boost laser-driven fusion implosions by seeding the fuel with gold? A creative idea from the world of nanoplasmonics fails to take root in...

EUROfusion awards 16 Enabling Research Projects
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The EUROfusion consortium for the realisation of fusion energy has awarded 16 Enabling Research Projects to scientists across Europe. These grants...

Hollowing out pearls with watchmaker's tools
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last updated: 03/03/2021
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Tiny hand-made pellets may show the way to tracking how unwanted impurities migrate throughout fusion plasmas.

Testing fusion walls for ITER in WEST
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During its last campaign in 2020, the French WEST tokamak continued to put wall solutions for ITER to the test.

From trusting your intuition to strict control
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How a novel control system can regulate heat loss and detachment in fusion experiments.

Fusion in Europe digital newsletter
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EUROfusion is proud to announce the relaunch of Fusion in Europe magazine as a digital newsletter.

Testing fusion materials with a hail of neutrons
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For two years, the Belgian nuclear research lab SCK CEN tested materials for ITER and beyond with extreme heat and neutron irradiation

Winding Europe's first ITER magnet
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Challenging projects make the young fusion industry flourish

F4E launches Technology Transfer Award
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F4E has launched the “Technology Transfer Award” to inject new dynamism in the market and reward European companies and laboratories that can present...

Fusion causing a splash in dentistry
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How fusion alumnus Antonis Sergis developed a dentists' protocol to reduce Coronavirus spread

JET defies Covid to post a record-breaking year
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News from CCFE: JET defies Covid to post a record-breaking year

2020 Nuclear Fusion journal award to Prof. Christian Theiler
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News from the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL

Expert panel approves next DEMO design phase
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From 19 to 25 November 2020, an independent expert panel reviewed EUROfusion's R&D and design work on DEMO, the future demonstration fusion power...

Hungarians to develop ITER protection system
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How can you quickly shut down runaway electrons in a fusion plasma? Shattering pellets of hydrogen ice may hold the answer.

Small but fierce: SPARC
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We talk to plasma physics expert professor Hartmut Zohm at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics for his expert insight.