Physicists with the Joint European Torus (JET) announce that the first experimental campaigns have begun at the large tokamak. The studies are meant to pave the way for future nuclear fusion reactors, including DEMO and the troubled ITER.JET was shut down for a while, as engineers installed the “ITER-Like Wall&... |
5 September 2011
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The international group of scientists that is in charge of the international nuclear fusion research project known as ITER recently managed to secure additional funding from the European Commission. The organization is the executive arm of the European Union, and it agreed to supply the project with an additional &eu... |
5 August 2010
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In 2006, when the first cost estimates for the planned ITER experimental fusion reactor were presented to the international partners, countries decided that the investment was worth pursuing. Over the past four years, however, things changed considerably, and the tokamak now comes with an estimated €15-billion (... |
29 May 2010
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On Monday, April 26, officials from the Russian Federation and Italy announced the signing of a new cooperation agreement between the two nations, centered on the development and construction of a new tokamak. The advanced machinery will be designed by Italian investigators, and built on Russian soil. Scientists from... |
28 April 2010
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According to officials, it may be that the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility will be opened for business come 2019. This is a significant delay from the originally-planned opening date, which was scheduled for 2016. It was pushed back by two years, to 2018, some time ago, and now manage... |
11 March 2010
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Prompted by the numerous delays and setbacks the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project experienced over the last couple of years, officials in the European Union decided to change the management overseeing the continent's involvement in the research initiative. Europe is the largest con... |
6 February 2010
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Scientists assessing the difficulties related to the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility in southern France have recently revealed that it may be unfeasible to fire up the reactor as soon as 2018, as current plans have it. The multi-billion-euro nuclear fusion test rea... |
20 November 2009
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The Construction Phase of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility will not begin until spring 2010, roughly one year after preliminary work at the construction site has been finished, officials have announced. The delay was caused by the fact that the participants in the project had not y... |
14 October 2009
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Keeping the flow of plasma – an electrically-charged stream of gas heated at millions of degrees – has been a major obstacle in the path of developing a sustainable nuclear fusion reaction, as turbulences and drops in temperature interfered with the difficult process of merging the similarly-charged nucle... |
4 December 2008
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