Dignitaries gather their strength before tightening the bolt on the first component of JT60-SA, supplied by CIEMAT, in Spain.

European collaboration lays foundations for Japanese tokamak

The bolt-tightening ceremony at Japan’s JT-60 SA tokamak marks the success of a Europe-Japan agreement

Christoph Mancke's sculpture "Intention-Intencija" adorns the front lawn of the new building for Forschungszentrum Jülich's plasma physics department. Image: Harry Reimer

New perspectives for Jülich’s plasma physicists

Jülich: A major change of scene for the plasma physicists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, as they move from fifty-year old wooden barracks into a brand new custom-built building.

A predator that feeds on turbulence has been found in the labs in CIEMAT, Madrid.

Keeping turbulence at bay with zonal flows

CIEMAT, Madrid: A predator has been discovered in the fusion labs, preying on… Turbulence!

The COMPASS tokamak in Prague has established its credentials by achieving H-mode operation

COMPASS shows the way to H-mode

IPP Prague: A five-year quest has borne fruit as IPP’s tokamak achieves ITER-Like operation.

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A energia de fusão vai chegar à rede eléctrica

A Agência Europeia para o Desenvolvimento da Fusão Nuclear (EFDA) publicou um roteiro que descreve os passos para fornecer energia eléctrica baseada em fusão à rede pública por volta de 2050. O documento Roteiro para a concretização da energia de fusão organiza este processo em oito missões.

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Fuusiosähköä verkkoon

Eurooppalaista fuusioenergiatutkimusta koordinoiva EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement) on julkaissut fuusiosähkön tuotantoon vuoteen 2050 mennessä tähtäävän tiekartan.

The new heating system at IPP was officially launched on 27th November 2012. From left, Ursel Fantz (IPP), Bernd Heinemann (IPP), Tulli Bonicelli (F4E), Antonio Masiello (F4E).

Elise opens the door for ITER’s heaters

A new experiment in Germany will generate a larger particle beam than ever before.

Fusion experiment winners in the German Prize for Science Photography. Left: Volker Steger's spherical panorama of ASDEX-Upgrade's interior. Right: Wendelstein 7-X, one of Christian Lünig's series of black and white images.

Fusion images shine at awards

Fusion experiments have captured the judges’ hearts in the 2012 German Prize for Science Photography

Tungsten target exposed to a high-flux hydrogen plasma in the Magnum-PSI facility at the Dutch FOM Institute DIFFER. Magnum-PSI recently started its experimental campaign and investigates plasma-surface interactions under ITER-relevant conditions

Giving materials hell

Punishing conditions push test materials to the limit at the newly launched Magnum-PSI facility at the Dutch FOM Institute DIFFER.

The PRIMA complex building will be 100 metres long - the human figures given for scale are barely visible. The large central assembly area serves both the SPIDER facility, to the left, and the MITICA accelerating beam line (on the right)

Launch of PRIMA

The heat is on in Padua as RFX prepare to build the most powerful beam injector the world has ever seen.