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The successful operation of the Japan Torus-60 Super Advanced (JT-60SA) fusion device, the world's largest operational superconducting tokamak, has been marked by Japan and the European Union in a ceremony to inaugurate the facility.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Japan-and-EU-mark-first-plasma-from-JT-60SA-fusion
Following talks in Washington between US Deputy Secretary of Energy David M Turk and the UK Minister for Nuclear & Networks, Andrew Bowie a new strategic partnership was established to advance fusion energy. “The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) said in a statement that they had “decided to form a major new strategic partnership to accelerate the?demonstration and?commercialization of fusion energy”.?This partnership will focus on advancing the US?Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy?and the UK’s?Fusion Strategy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-and-uk-form-strategic-partnership-to-advance-fusion-energy-11297592
China has completed construction of the final batch of magnet-supporting products for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project under construction in France. The consignment has been shipped to the ITER construction site from Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province. China, as a partner in the project, is responsible for the development and manufacturing of the entire magnet supporting system for ITER.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 11 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-ships-last-batch-of-magnet-supporting-products-to-iter-11287112
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate the demonstration and commercialisation of fusion energy.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 11 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-and-USA-team-up-on-fusion-development
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Director General Pietro Barabaschi has outlined the progress made, and issues faced, by the multinational project as the process of drawing up a revised schedule takes place.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-director-general-promises-realistic-project
The UK-based Joint European Torus (JET) fusion facility at Culham near Oxford has played a vital role in the development of fusion energy. However, at the end of 2023 JET will be repurposed ready for decommissioning, which will last until around 2040. The first experiment in the world with a deuterium-tritium fuel mix took place at JET in 1991. Subsequent experiments have achieved higher energy yields, and the site holds the world record for the most energy produced from a fusion experiment - 59 megajoules (MJ) during a five-second pulse.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 19 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsexperiments-end-at-jet-after-40-years-11228413
Opening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 29th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023) in London, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi began by wishing a happy 40th anniversary to the Joint European Torus (JET) which operates at Culham near Oxford. Jet was “the first tritium experiment in Europe, breaker of scientific records, producer of generations of accomplished scientists and engineers, and a true magnet for international collaboration,” he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-29th-fusion-energy-conference-attracts-2000-participants-11224380
Construction has started on the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-Demo Oriented NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) project in Granada, Spain. The facility will test materials for use in future fusion power reactors. Spain and Croatia are project leaders, with Spain funding 50% of all construction costs and 10% of operating costs, and Croatia responsible for 5% of each.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconstruction-of-new-fusion-facility-begins-in-spain-11213452
Construction has started in Granada, Spain, of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-Demo Oriented Neutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) project. The facility will provide a fusion‐like neutron source for the qualification of the materials to be used in a fusion power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 13 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-of-fusion-materials-testing-facility
UK-based Tokamak Energy’s superconducting magnet system, which is being built to replicate fusion energy power plant forces, has passed significant milestone cryogenic tests. Creating fusion energy requires strong magnetic fields to confine and control the extremely hot hydrogen fuel, which becomes a plasma several times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energys-fusion-magnet-system-passes-cryogenic-tests-11159891