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Rosatom has listed the result for 2023 of the state programme: “Development of Engineering, Technologies & Scientific Research (RTTN Razvitii Tekhniki Tekhnologii I Nauchnikh Issledovanii) in the field of the use of atomic energy in the Russian Federation”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-lists-results-of-science-and-technology-development-programme-11661393
Manufacturing and testing of prototype first wall panels for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion machine has been successfully completed, says St Petersburg-based JSC NIIEFA - part of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-ready-to-mass-produce-first-wall-panels-for
In the second half of 2024, Russian specialists plan to conduct experiments in China and South Korea using unique domestic material that can be used at the International Experimental Thermonuclear Reactor (ITER) being built in Cadarache, France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-plans-to-test-new-material-for-the-first-wall-of-iter-11351995
A ceremony was held on 3 November to mark the final shipment from China of assemblies for the magnet supporting system of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion machine under construction in Cadarache, southern France.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-completes-ITER-magnet-support-components
Researchers at Russia’s AN Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry & Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPCE-RAS) and the National Research Nuclear University (NRNU) MEPhI [Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute] have developed a technology to protect the walls of fusion reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 16 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-better-protection-for-fusion-reactor-walls-11150671
China's new-generation tokamak, Huanliu-3 (HL-3), has made significant progress operating in high-confinement mode (H mode) under a plasma current of 1 million amperes for the first time, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. The experiment took place at CNNC’s Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is not clear whether this refers to the HL-2M tokamak, which was commissioned at SWIP in December 2020 as an upgrade of the earlier the HL-2A or whether this is a further upgrade.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-fusion-progress-for-china-11124388
Specialists at Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) in St Petersburg have begun acceptance tests of the full-scale prototype panel for the first wall of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER under construction at Cadarache in France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 17 August 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-specialists-test-prototype-of-wall-panel-for-iter-11076958
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
US fusion energy tech startup Helion Energy has signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project. Helion said the plant is expected to be online by 2028 and will target power generation of 50 MW or more after a one-year ramp up period. The companies did not disclose financial or timing details of the power purchase agreement, or which Microsoft facilities would get fusion-generated electricity.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshelion-announces-first-fusion-energy-purchase-agreement-with-microsoft-10852833
Researchers at Russia’s NRNU MEPhI (National Research University - Moscow Power Engineering Institute) are investigating the accumulation of helium and deuterium in promising "smart" W-Cr-Y alloys for use in thermonuclear reactors. The results of the study were published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials. The interaction of plasma with the inner wall of a fusion reactor are a major obstacle to achieving fusion energy, explained Zori Arutyunyan, Candidate of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, and Junior Researcher at MEPhI’s Department of Plasma Physics.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-smart-alloys-for-fusion-reactors-10853285