When there is no off-the-shelf solution, develop your own!Monaco-ITER postdoctoral positions | Apply by 1 MarchIf your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2017—or you are about to obtain one—you are eligible to apply for a Monaco-ITER Postdoctoral Fellowship.Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with strong NASA participation, the Solar Orbiter mission, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral on 10 February, will provide the first views of the Sun's uncharted polar regions, giving unprecedented insight into the workings of our familiar star.In a context of new momentum in fusion research—as the ITER Organization begins assembling its machine, a number of upgraded tokamaks return to operation, and private investors fund fusion startups—what does the near future hold for the development of fusion energy?Calling for nominations: 2020 Fusion Technology AwardAcademician Evgeny Velikhov, who was Mikhail Gorbachev's scientific adviser in the mid-1980s, is considered as the "godfather" of the ITER Project. During the ceremony, participants from industry, academia and national research institutes reflected on the 20-year effort in Korea toward the development of fusion energy. Industry found ways to affordably extract fuel for decades to come. This work shows that localized electron heating by microwaves is an effective tool for modifying Alfvén eigenmode activity in DIII-D and other devices worldwide.An update on ITER has been published in the Autumn 2017 issue of How bubbles at the edge of plasmas can reduce reaction efficiencyFor hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium, the heat of the ultrahot plasma in the tokamak must be maintained. A key outcome of the review is to be a recommended strategy for going forward—with or without ITER—in a way that preserves the US status as a leader in burning plasma research.The main webpage for ITER news has evolved.

The European Domestic Agency for ITER is looking for graduates in engineering, physics, law, human resources, finance and communication for four to nine months beginning 1 October 2017.At the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK, the central magnet of the new MAST upgrade tokamak was positioned in early March, bringing the project one step closer to the finishing line.Helios supercomputer: retired after 5 years of serviceFor five years, it has been a resource for the plasma physics community. Guidance came chiefly from hand signals, with some radio communication at the end.​From 20-22 May 2015 the ENERGY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Conference and Exhibition (EST-Energy) will be taking place at the Karlsruhe Convention Center in Germany.Lab develops infrared camera system to view tokamak from the inside​Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, in collaboration with General Atomics and the University of Arizona, have developed an infrared and visible camera viewing system that's able to produce wide-angle, tangential views of full poloidal (north-south direction of the "We wanted to look inside the tokamak's chamber to see where things were heating up on the walls," said Kevin Morris, a designer with LLNL's National Security Engineer Division, who was part of the research team that developed the The camera system consists of a commercially available infrared camera, a fast visible camera and an optical system designed by a collaboration of physicists, engineers, optical designers and mechanical designers.Their design will be used as a prototype for a set of larger cameras that will be built for ITER.43-minute program on nuclear fusion: BBC Radio 4 "In Our Time"​Melvyn Bragg from "In Our Time" and his guests discuss nuclear fusion, the process that powers stars. As the Universe cooled, fusion stopped generating these basic elements, leaving hydrogen as the main constituent of the Universe. Taiyô Tenno, the young Japanese art student who had visited Provence and had been introduced to ITER by French scientist Soléane, has returned to France. In June 2012, The world of fusion energy is a world of extremes. It offers clues for handling plasmas that roil inside nuclear fusion reactors on Earth.​As climate change becomes a serious national security threat, we must look to the future for a clean, safe and sustainable source of energy for our future. Over 3,000 politicians, stakeholders, civil society representatives and the media will gather in Brussels from 4-8 June to share ideas and look for solutions to address Europe's future energy needs. Do you want to put your academic experience into practice at ITER, the most ambitious international energy project? More than 60 percent of the coal consumed was used to generate power.The massive expansion of Germany's electricity networks to cope with the country's transition away from nuclear to a high share of renewable energy will require investments of up to EUR 42.5 billion (USD 55.4 billion) by 2030, according to a newly released study.Germany embarked on a path to low-carbon generation with high reliance on renewable energy following political decisions to phase out nuclear power, on which it had hitherto relied for around a quarter of its electricity, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.However, the country's existing grid is not up to the task of accepting a large share of electricity from solar and wind plants. In his address to the NSE community in the inaugural Del Favero Doctoral Thesis Prize Lecture, Zach Hartwig PhD '14 not only described his group's research achievements but also explained why, in his view, fusion research should now be at the top of the department's agenda. The roadmap has been developed within a goal-oriented approach articulated in eight different missions (#8 focuses on the stellarator). But it's all in a day's work for JET's inspection team as part of maintenance of JET's central magnet, the P1 solenoid.The solenoid itself is made up of 1,440 turns of copper, separated into 14 "pancakes"—sections of coils stacked on top of each other.