… Vidi grant Thomas Morgan for liquid fusion reactor walls Published on May 23, 2019 DIFFER group … liquid metal layers to protect the walls of future fusion power plants. Liquid metals are exciting as a wall design … the reactor walls. The exhaust or divertor of the reactor will have to withstand heat loads and particle bombardments …
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… van Berkel receives Vidi for holistic control system for fusion reactor Published on July 01, 2022 DIFFER researcher … a huge amount of energy. Virtual experiments Van Berkel will receive 800,000 euros from NWO to spend in five years. … in a fusion reactor. And in his postdoc period, he examined what happens at the exhaust. "And now everything is coming …
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… 2nd European Fusion Teacher Day Published on August 12, 2021 Are you a teacher? Would you like to learn more aboute fusion? On 1 October 2021, FuseNet … students and teachers can relate to. ITER Organization will be putting in an appearance in the global portion of …
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… Marco de Baar appointed new director of DIFFER Published on … for a period of two years. With effect from mid-2020, he will succeed Prof. Richard van de Sanden, who will continue … institute as a group leader and since 2014 as theme leader Fusion Energy and a member of the management team. De Baar …
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… of a material to the harsh plasma conditions in future fusion reactors. Magnum-PSI exposed tungsten wall components to the equivalent of a full year of high power fusion operations in the future ITER reactor, 50 … is currently being constructed in the south of France and will start experiments in 2025. ITER is the first fusion …
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… EUROfusion Engineering Grant 2024 for DIFFER researcher James … research. For example, now we don't know exactly how some will behave at very high temperatures when you repeatedly … Hargreaves says: “How will it behave in the long term, what is the performance of the solutions we have in mind …
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… Published on May 21, 2021 Extreme conditions exist in a fusion reactor and the reactor vessel wall must be able to … of tungsten, to hold the liquid metal. Sponge-like wall What is the point of a fusion reactor if the wall regularly … laboratory consists of two main components. A 3D printer will be constructed for the printing of tungsten and other …
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… student. He saw the institute evolve from an exclusively fusion-focused ‘family’ inhabiting a medieval castle to a … France.These are planned to start in 2025. Hopefully, they will demonstrate that it is technically feasible to keep a … the next phase in fusion research will be a demonstration power station, at an even larger scale than the experimental …
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… NWO-I Technical Workshop: Control Technology This meeting will be postponed due to the new Covid restrictions - a new … theme. The primary goal of these workshops is to learn what is happening at the other institutes within a … multi-output identification for exhaust control in fusion reactors. 15:30-16:15 Tour of DIFFER 16:15-17:00 …
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… Nuclear fusion and business opportunities: second edition Dutch … 9 May 2025, the second edition of the Dutch Fusion Day will take place in Eindhoven, organised by DIFFER, EIRES (TU/e) and BigScienceNL. What opportunities lie ahead for commercial parties? How can …
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… fields are used to confine the plasma into a beam that will interact with a piece of material, the target. The … of the machine has been changed. So that was a huge job. What are the modifications you made to UPP? “Actually, apart … easy to retrieve all records and to do data analysis.” Do users need a lot of expertise to work with UPP? “The system …
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… 2021. The editors of New Scientist chose the fusion researcher as a nominee from more than 50 … at 23:00. Of the five talents with the most votes, the jury will choose numbers one, two and three. They will then be … Rindt: “The power facing those shields is comparable to what spacecraft have to withstand upon re-entry into the …
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… ultrafast neural network model of the turbulent plasma in a fusion reactor. The neural network can accurately predict … the project goals through fast and accurate simulations will be vital. To achieve this type of full-device … space. You can even try the more risky settings to find out what would happen if you go out of bounds, which is …
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… New approach simplifies fusion physics Published on November 05, 2018 Sometimes it … pair of eyes to tackle complex problems. That is exactly what happened when DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel … price ‘To make fusion energy a success, ultimately we will have to develop a fusion reactor that generates …
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… Paving the way for future fusion energy: Exhaust control for SPARC Published on November 12, 2024 The realisation of a fusion plant faces multiple challenges, for example controlling the … fusion machine. Image Tokamak Hall is the room where SPARC will be built soon. The wall shows a life-size illustration …
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