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    South Korea Reports Fusion Research Progress

    A superconducting tokamak at the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) in South Korea has achieved a world record of more than 70 seconds in high-performance plasma operation. Researchers hailed the achievement as a “huge step forward for the realization of fusion power.” According to NFRI, researchers used a fully non-inductive operation mode—a “high poloidal beta […]

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    Amec Foster Wheeler to lead study into dismantling of ITER fusion machine

    Amec Foster Wheeler to lead study into dismantling of ITER fusion machine ·             Key role in end-of-life planning for the world’s largest energy experiment ·             One of five new awards at ITER covering concept design, engineering and technical specifications     Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a contract by the ITER organisation […]

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    Fabrication Begins for ITER Fusion Reactor Central Solenoid

    Workers at San Diego’s General Atomics (GA) on April 10 began the years-long process of winding the 1,000-ton superconducting electromagnet that will power the ITER fusion reactor under construction in southern France. The $16 billion ITER project, a consortium of the U.S., the European Union, Russia, China, Japan, and other nations, aims to test reactor-scale […]