… ECCM Research Day The ECCM Research Day is organized in follow up to the ECCM Conference of June 2021. During the Research Day complementing topics will be addressed providing a focus on current research being carried out by researchers on various TRL’s …
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… Themes of the day were the future directions of energy research on solar fuels and fusion energy. In 1959, the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics … Rijnhuizen was founded to become the Dutch home base for research into fusion energy. “Let us make a sun on earth”, …
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… DIFFER seminar: Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report … program. This plan is based on substantial input from the research community, which conveyed a wealth of creative … the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BaPSF), a collaborative research facility for plasma science supported by DOE and …
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… Building the cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor Published on April 19, 2024 The cruise … been the focus of Gijs Derks, PhD student at DIFFER in the research teams of Egbert Westerhof and Matthijs van Berkel, already for two years. Derks is researching models with the aim to make informed choices for …
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… EUROfusion welcomes Dr. Gianfranco Federici as the new Programme … 2024, Dr. Gianfranco Federici was elected to be the new EUROfusion Programme Manager following a rigorous selection … Gianfranco outlined the critical focal points for both EUROfusion and European fusion strategy over the pivotal coming …
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… How do we protect the wall of a fusion reactor? ‘By simply looking with a camera we can … Tijs Wijkamp’s answer is: simply by looking! During his PhD research at the TU/e and DIFFER fusion groups, he used … too.' Super-fast electrons As a spin-off within the MANTIS research, these systems are also used to study ‘runaway …
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… over a video connection: on 29 October 2020, the UK's new fusion device MAST Upgrade officially commenced operation. … Airbus A380 engine – now features stronger magnets, extra instrumentation to follow and control the seething plasma … will give important guidance to ITER and DEMO." Fusion researchers throughout Europe followed MAST Upgrade's first …
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… PhD defense: Thomas Bosman learned to control fusion exhaust in three shots Published on April 30, 2025 … heat load is too high for any material to handle. Fusion researchers want to manage the exhaust by puffing cooling … define our controller." With this controlling algorithm, research goals were achieved for which a 1.5-year research …
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… DIFFER develops research facility for energy transition Published on May 09, 2023 A Dutch consortium, led by national energy research institute DIFFER, will receive 4.7 million euros … conducts leading fundamental research in the fields of fusion energy and solar fuels. The institute works in close …
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… on September 15, 2015 When the hot, dense plasma in a fusion reactor hits the reactor's exhaust wall, dust … * This work was carried out under Eurofusion Enabling Research Project WP14-ER-01/VR-01 As a first test of the … powering the sun, there is seldom the space to do that - instrumentation ports are too far away from this …
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… Vidi grant Thomas Morgan for liquid fusion reactor walls Published on May 23, 2019 DIFFER group … safe and abundant fusion energy. Thomas Morgan at DIFFER's research facility Magnum-PSI. Credit: DIFFER / Bram Lamers Surface of the sun Fusion researchers want to generate energy from the same process …
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… , DIFFER has installed a Steering Committee for its research facility Magnum-PSI . Greg De Temmerman (ITER … to the extreme plasma conditions at the edge of future fusion power plants. Research on Magnum-PSI includes work on … and suggest or assess possible extensions of the DIFFER PSI facilities. READ MORE Magnum-PSI facility Ion Beam …
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… DIFFER Seminar: On the way towards a fusion power plant – achievements and challenges Attend … Torus, operated at Culham (UK) by the European fusion research consortium EUROfusion and its partners. In this … will be outlined. In the second half of the talk, current research topics of materials research for the plasma-facing …
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… March on the status and progress of the international ITER fusion project and the business opportunities for Dutch companies and research laboratories. ITER is building the most advanced … DIFFER research theme Fusion Energy, outlined the unique facilities and competencies that Dutch knowledge institutes …
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… behaviour of materials under the harsh conditions in future fusion reactors. On Saturday 8 October, the 17 ton magnet … superconducting magnet. Starting at manufacturer Research Instruments in Bergisch Gladbach (D), the magnet on … can commence. Marco de Baar, head of DIFFER's fusion energy research, expects that Magnum-PSI will be up and running …
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