European Fusion Roadmap Released
The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA), a European-wide association of fusion laboratories and resources, released its roadmap to commercialized fusion energy. The EFDA roadmap does not...
View ArticleSouth Korea Moves Aggressively on Fusion Energy
Over at Nature, they are reporting on South Korea’s large investment into developing fusion energy. Together with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), South Korea plans on constructing a...
View ArticleOther Obstacles to Fusion Power after ITER
Science has a good article on Europe’s fusion energy roadmap. As mentioned in a previous post, the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) published its roadmap to commercialized fusion energy,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ASP BGen Steve Cheney on President Obama’s Inaugural Address
Photo credit: Whitehouse.gov Yesterday, President Obama stated in his inaugural address that his administration will take strong action to deal with climate change, noting that “the failure to do so...
View ArticleAssembly of Nuclear Fusion Generation Test Equipment Begins in Japan
Power Engineering reported on Japan’s efforts to produce fusion energy. Japan is beginning the assembly of equipment to achieve fusion energy at a site northeast of Tokyo. The goal is to achieve net...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski Releases Energy Blueprint
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski recently released a detailed blueprint called Energy 20/20: A Vision for America’s Energy Future. The report underlines the consensus areas that exist on our energy policy –...
View ArticleRussia to build world’s largest laser for fusion energy
The Voice of Russia reported that Russia plans to build the world’s largest laser to produce energy from fusion. By using lasers, extreme temperatures and pressure can crush hydrogen atoms, fusing them...
View ArticleNuclear fusion: an answer to China’s energy problems?
Although Europe is leading on fusion energy with the JET experiment in the United Kingdom and ITER under construction in France, China believes it can “leap frog” the Europeans with ambitious plans to...
View ArticleLockheed Martin Predicts it can Produce a Fusion Power Plant within 10 years
Oilprice.com reported that defense contractor Lockheed Martin has plans to build a small fusion power plant within a decade. Its design would use a “compact cylinder” instead of a the traditionally...
View ArticlePreviewing the next steps on the path to a magnetic fusion power plant
John Greenwald of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) published a press release, detailing a roadmap to a fusion power plant. In the press release, Greenwald laid out several of the...
View ArticlePotential Benefits of Inertial Fusion Energy Justify Continued Research and...
ScienceDaily reported on the National Academies report on inertial fusion energy, “An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy.” The report concluded that the potential benefits of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Energy R&D Critical to American Competitiveness
MIT’s Alcator C-Mod At a time of short-term thinking in Washington, it is even more important to step back and consider the long-term view in areas crucial to American competitiveness and national...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fusion Needed for Long-Term Energy Security
China’s Superconducting Tokamak, EAST Today, Justin Gillis of The New York Times kicked off a monthly column on climate change by exploring the critical need for long-term energy solutions to climate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHITE PAPER: Fusion Power – A 10 Year Plan to Energy Security
ASP’s new White Paper report, “Fusion Power – A 10 Year Plan to Energy Security” provides a detailed plan on how to accelerate the development of fusion power. Why do we need fusion power? The American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Event Review: Fusion Power – A 10 Year Plan to Energy Security
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) On Wednesday, March 13 the American Security Project hosted an event entitled “Fusion Power: A 10-Year Plan to Energy Security.” The event coincided with the release...
View ArticleClik here to view.
America’s Long-Term Test: Fusion Power
The country is at a moment when long-term thinking is needed more than ever, not the month-to-month mindset that Washington currently lives by. American competitiveness depends on breaking out of this...
View ArticleVideo: U.S. ITER
The ITER project, an internationally-backed experimental fusion power plant under construction in France, promises to demonstrate positive fusion power. The goal is to produce 500 megawatts of output...
View ArticleLLNL Achieves Record Supercomputer Simulation
E&E’s Greenwire published an article on progress at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), which achieved a milestone that brings the reality of “fast ignition” closer for fusion energy. Fast...
View ArticleNRL Nike Laser Focuses on Nuclear Fusion
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated pulse tailoring, producing a time varying focal spot size known as ‘focal zooming’ on the world’s largest operating...
View ArticleWhat We Are Reading
As the nation reels from the bombings in Boston, an earthquake shakes Iran, an Iranian-run factory raises questions in Germany, and we take a look at a State Department program that aims to bring...
View Article
