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- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 05 August 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/shine-technologies-announces-visible-proof-of-fusion-8-5-2023
SHINE Technologies of the USA says it has demonstrated clearly visible Cherenkov radiation produced by fusion for what is believed to be the first time. Historically, fusion has been demonstrated and detected with instruments instead of a visible light.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 05 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SHINE-demonstrates-Cherenkov-radiation-from-fusion
Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) says a Japanese test assembly has completed testing for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France. Eight elements of a prototype divertor, passed 6,000 test cycles at loads from 5 to 20 MW per square metre, confirming "the compliance of the Japanese element with the highest requirements" of ITER. The tests were carried out at the ITER Divertor Test Facility (IDTF) in St Petersburg, which supports tasks for the ITER project.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-niiefa-tests-japanese-component-for-iter-11000375
TerraPower Isotopes and Belgian joint venture PanTera have announced a collaboration to increase the global availability of actinium-225 (Ac-225), while Arizona-based Serva Energy has developed a new research reactor-based production method to ramp up the supply of the rare radioisotope.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-innovation-companies-in-new-Ac-225-initiat
UK-based Pulsar Fusion has entered into a partnership with US Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS) to apply machine learning to study data from the Princeton field-reverse configuration (PFRC-2) reactor. The aim is to advance delivery of practical fusion propelled spacecraft that can make interstellar space travel practical.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 17 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstransatlantic-partnership-to-advance-interstellar-fusion-travel-10946500
UK clean space propulsion systems and services company Pulsar Fusion has formed a partnership with USA-based Princeton Satellite Systems to use artificial intelligence (AI) to design a hyper-fast space rocket capable of reaching Mars in only 30 days.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-US-partnership-for-nuclear-fusion-rockets
The first thermonuclear plasma has been achieved at the T-15MD tokamak, at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute and the facility is operating steadily, according to Kurchative Institute President Mikhail Kovalchuk. The physical launch of the T-15MD tokamak took place in May 2021. "The stable plasma, at millions of degrees Celsius, has been obtained.… This most complicated and expensive installation started up immediately and is now working, gaining power and reaching global parameters,” he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-t-15md-tokamak-achieves-first-stable-plasma-10770011
The Low Intensity Test Reactor (LITR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) became world-famous when a photographer first captured a blue glow caused by radiation in the pool above the reactor. That photo appeared on the cover of the October 1951 issue of Scientific American.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 07 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demolition-of-famous-US-reactor-begins
The University of Missouri has launched an initiative to build a new, larger research reactor, NextGen MURR. The university's existing MU Research Reactor (MURR) - in operation for more than half a century - is the highest-powered university research reactor in the USA and is currently the country's only producer of certain medical radioisotopes.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-isotope-producing-research-reactor-for-Missour
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator fusion device at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has achieved some significant breakthroughs. In 2023, an energy turnover of 1 gigajoule was targeted, but researchers have now achieved 1.3 gigajoules. Moreover, a new record for discharge time was achieved, with the hot plasma maintained for eight minutes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssuccessful-fusion-experiments-at-germanys-wendelstein-7-x-10636975