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JET researchers find ‘win-win’ scenario for future fusion reactors

A vital discovery on how to force the extreme heatload away from a fusion reactor's exhaust system while maintaining high performance has been discovered in recent tests at the Joint European Torus (JET) device at Culham. In machines like JET,…

Nick HollowayMarch 24, 2020

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Diamonds could be forever in nuclear-powered battery project

Scientists at CCFE are working with academics at the University of Bristol on world-leading technology in order to make diamond batteries, which could provide decades or thousands of years’ worth of energy without a recharge. Items such as computer chips,…

Nick HollowayMarch 18, 2020

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Weaving a way to fusion energy

A 3D woven composite component, capable of withstanding extreme temperatures inside a fusion reactor, has been researched as a result of a collaboration between CCFE and the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The work was commissioned by…

Nick HollowayMarch 10, 2020

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New Science Minister Amanda Solloway MP at CCFE for first major visit

Amanda Solloway MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was today at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy for her first major visit since becoming Science Minister. The minister visited CCFE's new fusion…

Nick HollowayMarch 6, 2020

Illustration of ITER (courtesy ITER Organization)

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A whole new weld for ITER pipe inspections

CCFE's Joining & Advanced Manufacturing team is working on novel techniques for performing safety checks on components at the ITER next-step fusion reactor. ITER – the large international fusion machine being built in southern France – will have a network…

Nick HollowayFebruary 20, 2020

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Register for the 2020 Culham Summer School

The 57th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School is open to applications. The school will take place between 20 July and 31 July 2020 at Culham Science Centre, the home of the UK’s fusion energy research programme. It will cover fundamental…

Nick HollowayFebruary 5, 2020

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Sun Dome outreach project set to remain the star attraction

CCFE's mobile planetarium for schools is getting an upgrade. Since 2006, thousands of primary school students in Oxfordshire and further afield have had the opportunity to visit our Sun Dome workshop. It's an exciting and interactive way to learn how…

Nick HollowayDecember 13, 2019

Dr Mike Forrest - Thomson scattering experiment, 1964

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Mission to Moscow: 50 years on

Fifty years ago, five scientists from Culham Laboratory made a trip to the Soviet Union that was to prove a pivotal moment in the quest for fusion energy. Their journey to Moscow's Kurchatov Institute in 1969 confirmed the impressive results…

Nick HollowayNovember 22, 2019

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Record heating power achieved on JET

Record neutral beam powers of 30.8 megawatts were last week injected into a plasma on the JET tokamak at Culham. The new record was achieved during tests preparing the plasma scenarios required for JET's deuterium-tritium experiments in 2020, which aim…

Nick HollowayNovember 14, 2019

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JET deals a shattering blow to plasma instabilities

An innovative device to prevent plasma from melting or damaging components of the reactor wall in JET has been used in experiments for the first time. As seen in the striking video (below), the Shattered Pellet Injector (or ‘SPI') pre-empts…

Nick HollowayOctober 4, 2019

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JET researchers find ‘win-win’ scenario for future fusion reactors

Diamonds could be forever in nuclear-powered battery project

Weaving a way to fusion energy

New Science Minister Amanda Solloway MP at CCFE for first major visit

A whole new weld for ITER pipe inspections

Register for the 2020 Culham Summer School

Sun Dome outreach project set to remain the star attraction

Mission to Moscow: 50 years on

Record heating power achieved on JET

JET deals a shattering blow to plasma instabilities

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