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US fusion energy developer Type One Energy Group has announced plans to build Infinity One - its stellarator fusion prototype machine - at Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant in Clinton, Tennessee.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Prototype-fusion-reactor-planned-for-TVA-site
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
US-based General Atomics (GA) has been awarded a contract by US ITER, based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to develop the manufacturing process for components for the system that will transmit microwave heating into the heart of the ITER international fusion reactor under construction at Cadarache in France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-atomics-wins-iter-contract-8354329
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 13 February announced up to $50 million in cross-cutting departmental funding for programmes to support fusion energy research and development.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-us-funding-for-fusion-research-7775081
The US Department of Energy has announced it will provide $30m to US universities, private industry and national laboratories for a range of research projects in fusion energy.
In a statement the DOE said the funding will go to 10 US multi-institutional research teams to support fusion energy research at international facilities.
The main focus of the fusion energy research is sustaining high-temperature plasmas for long durations within superconducting tokamak facilities – donut-shaped devices that confine the plasma by means of powerful magnetic fields.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 31 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-doe-announces-funding-for-research-8-5-2019
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced on 20 December that it is collaborating with industry on six new projects focused on advancing commercial nuclear energy technologies that offer potential improvements to current reactors and move new reactor designs closer to deployment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 January 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-announced-nuclear-research-funding-6918585
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has announced six new collaborations with industry on projects to advance commercial nuclear energy technologies. Meanwhile, the DOE has announced separate funding solicitations for USD14 million for research into fusion energy and USD18 million for transformative energy technologies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 21 December 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/DOE-programmes-support-innovation-projects
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
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT’s) Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor on 30 September set a new world record for plasma pressure of 2.05 atmospheres. This is 16% better than the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres set at the same facility in 2005 at a temperature of 35m Celsius and lasting for two seconds. The breakthrough was presented on 17 September at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s fusion summit in Japan. Professor Robert McCrory of the University of Rochester, New York, said the result confirms that the high pressures required for burning plasma can be best achieved with high-magnetic-field tokamaks such as Alcator C-Mod.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-mit-sets-new-fusion-record-5038530
The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara
Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium