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UK-based Tokamak Energy is developing new laser measurement technology to control extreme conditions inside future fusion power. Plasma temperatures inside a tokamak reach over 100m degrees Celsius. The hydrogen fuel must be closely and accurately measured by a specialist laser system to keep the hot plasma stable, hold density and maintain fusion conditions.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energy-to-develop-new-laser-technology-for-fusion-plant-operations-11616489
UK-based nuclear fusion company Tokamak Energy said it is developing new laser measurement technology crucial for controlling extreme conditions inside future fusion power plants and delivering clean energy to the grid.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tokamak-Energy-developing-new-laser-technology
Nine organisations have secured contracts worth £11.6m ($14.6bn) in total from United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop innovative technologies for fusion energy. The nine organisations have been awarded a total of 10 contracts and are a mix of start-ups, small-medium enterprises, established companies, and academia.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukaea-awards-more-funding-for-fusion-as-jet-announces-technology-advance-11365559
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have reportedly achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time. The milestone was first achieved last December.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/LLNL-researchers-achieve-fusion-ignition-for-secon
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France is facing more delays, ITER director general Pietro Barabaschi said in an interview with AFP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-for-iter-10511382
Tokamak Energy has said its upgraded fusion energy device, ST40, has achieved first plasma after recently returning to operation, as part of the company’s mission to demonstrate grid-ready power by the early 2030s. Tokamak Energy demonstrated a world-first by reaching a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in the ST40 tokamak earlier this year. This is the threshold required for commercial fusion energy and the highest temperature ever achieved in a privately funded spherical tokamak.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-plasma-for-tokamak-energys-fusion-device-10439245
The first ever controlled fusion experiment to produce more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it was conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on 5 December - a breakthrough that has been decades in the making.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-researchers-achieve-historic-fusion-ignition
Russia’s Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research (Triniti) in Moscow plans to build a new thermonuclear reactor by 2030, Deputy Director General Kirill Ilyin told Strana Rosatom on 9 February.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-troitsk-institute-pushes-ahead-with-thermonuclear-and-plasma-research-8519913
An 80-page report by the US Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC), “Powering the Future: Fusion and Plasmas” published in December says the US should build a fusion pilot plant (FPP) by the 2040s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-report-urges-aggressive-approach-to-fusion-research-8443475
Oxford-based First Light Fusion (FLF), which is researching a number of alternative research directions to develop inertial confinement fusion ICF) for energy generation, announced on 29 August that it had successfully fired the first test ‘shot’ on one of the six limbs of its newly-constructed pulsed power machine. Machine 3 remains on track to be commissioned into service by the end of 2018, FLF said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 August 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssuccessful-test-shot-for-oxford-inertial-confinement-fusion-company-6728400