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  • DIFFER Seminar: ITER Tritium breeding test blanket program

    … DIFFER Seminar: ITER Tritium breeding test blanket program    Attend this … for Test Blanket Module, is a specific research activity within ITER, involving all ITER Members. It is foreseen to … water (600 K) or helium (up to 773 K). The structural material for the TBMs are so-called reduced-activation …
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  • Urban design software improves water splitting

    … and measured photoelectrochemical cells in combination with software developed for urban design to explain why such … may improve performance in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. Hydrogen is a clean energy carrier that produces … (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201909157 Go to the News page. …
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  • Workshop topics

    … The topics for the 8 th International Workshop on Plasma Material Interaction Facilities for Fusion Research are: … of plasma-material interaction facilities Testing of first wall and divertor materials Plasma edge and divertor physics … as plasma-facing materials in a reactor. The evaluation criteria include erosion, fuel retention, evolution of surface …
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  • First Dutch Fusion Day in Eindhoven: ‘We need Dutchness to make fusion energy become a reality’

    … fusion community that fully utilises the potential of ITER, designs the future demonstration power plant DEMO and … with DIFFER in the field of Systems & control and materials. Topics in which we want to be world leading. In … Fusion Day website .  Author: Rianne van Hoek   Go to the News page. …
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  • Design students turn ion beam facility into artwork

    … work of art. One side will have a cutaway like character with mainly purple and pink colors. Those colors are a … researchers from within and out of DIFFER to research new materials. For example, they can study layers of material … part of the institutes organization of NWO. Dutch original news item: …
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  • Living and breathing energy research

    … of the DIFFER institute for fundamental energy research. With the Dutch climate agreement building up steam and real … we breathed new life into the Electrochemical Conversion & Materials community, which was a rather abandoned field and … energy storage by means of a thermal battery.”   Go to the News page. …
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  • Driven to accelerate energy materials discovery

    … Driven to accelerate energy materials discovery Published on November 11, 2025 “The … the ambition of DIFFER, which has made a flying start with the recently completed final projects of the two … with academia and industry. Author: Sonja Knols Go to the News page. …
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  • Highlights

    … dynamic 1D divertor model DIV1D using the 2D SOLPS-ITER code G.L. Derks, J.P.K.W. Frankemölle, J.T.W. Koenders, … leg. We outline a 1D mapping procedure for static 2D SOLPS-ITER simulations of divertor plasmas in the Tokamak á … and quantitative sense. In addition, the comparison with SOLPS-ITER demonstrates that DIV1D self-consistently …
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  • Building the cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor

    … Berkel, already for two years. Derks is researching models with the aim to make informed choices for control technology … it is a major challenge to preventing the reactor wall from melting. That challenge requires all kinds of … . Auteurs: Gijs Derks, Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • Fusion scientists drive groundwater research forward

    … on June 02, 2022 Fusion scientists at DIFFER, together with an international team of groundwater researchers, have … is also done frequently in fusion research. An interview with Ricky van Kampen and Matthijs van Berkel. Lees dit …   DIFFER group Energy Systems and Control Go to the News page. …
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  • Advanced control strategies for divertor power sharing and core density regulation in fusion energy devices

    … power plants, like the UK’s STEP and the international ITER project. Image Figure 1. Double-null configuration with … immense power of a nuclear fusion reactor across the vessel wall, an additional divertor can be installed at the top of … van Berkel, Gijs Derks, Bob Kool, Chris Orrico Go to the News page. …
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  • Metal doping enhances CO2 capturing material

    … Metal doping enhances CO2 capturing material Published on March 27, 2019 Materials to capture CO … for a more ambitious goal: using captured CO 2 together with renewable electrical power into fuels or other valuable … safe and abundant power through nuclear fusion. Go to the News page. …
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  • Opening up the DIFFER facilities: successful international collaborations for future energy

    … My PhD is on the effect of plasma transients on front wall/breeder blanket components. Within the expected 30 year … will be experienced at least 2500 times causing plasma-material interactions with the front wall. When this … future. Authors: Hannah Tipping, Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • JET’s tritium experiments yield a new energy record: Q&A with DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel

    … Not from JET, but from possibly the new start-ups and later ITER. Image What’s DIFFER's role when it comes to the … and we produce helium. At the same time, materials from the wall can end up in the core of the fusion reactor. We need … ) . Author: Rianne van Hoek Go to the News page. …
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  • A positive flow for researcher Mark Cornelissen: two publications in Nuclear Fusion journal

    … Using DIFFER's linear plasma generator Magnum-PSI to mimic ITER-like conditions, Cornelissen discovered in his first … knock other atoms out of the material making up the reactor wall. His second paper, however, holds signs for optimism: … plasmas of Magnum-PSI Author: Rianne van Hoek   Go to the News page. …
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