… Magnum-PSI The main research facility in the DIFFER PSI-Lab is Magnum-PSI, a … generator that allows us to study plasma-wall interactions in a fusion reactor. A cascaded arc plasma source produces a hot, …
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… ECCM Research Day The ECCM Research Day is organized in follow up to the ECCM … field. The goal of the Research Day is to strengthen the national research community, working on the broad topic of …
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… DIFFER Seminar: On the way towards a fusion power plant – achievements and challenges Attend this … Torus, operated at Culham (UK) by the European fusion research consortium EUROfusion and its partners. In this …
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… 13 December 2019. 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 …
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… The nurturing ground of the DIFFER facilities: 'This is the place where science and … DIFFER, we have unique facilities for energy and materials research. Designing and making them is in the hands of an … and technicians. A challenging process where collaboration is the key to success. Time to find out more about the …
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… student Parwez Rasulyaar and the Plasma Material Interactions group. The machine will be the first to couple high … of Magnum-PSI, Pilot-PSI. With this new facility, research can be performed on what occurs in the top several … materials during exposure to the plasma conditions inside a fusion reactor. This allows the tracking of implanted …
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… Building the cruise control of a nuclear fusion reactor Published on April 19, 2024 The cruise control … been the focus of Gijs Derks, PhD student at DIFFER in the research teams of Egbert Westerhof and Matthijs van Berkel, …
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… The design of nuclear fusion systems: ‘Complexity is our greatest enemy, modelling is … engineering'. Image Torben Beernaert © DIFFER What is your research about? “We see many challenges in the different …
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… Techniques Our ion beam can use six different techniques: RBS, NRA, ERD, PIXE, PIGE and Irradiation. The following paragraphs give an overview of each …
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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 …
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… How do we protect the wall of a fusion reactor? ‘By simply looking with a camera we can learn a … Tijs Wijkamp’s answer is: simply by looking! During his PhD research at the TU/e and DIFFER fusion groups, he used …
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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 …
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… DIFFER Seminar: Optimizing fusion power plant design with integrated simulation using … designed for the holistic simulation of fusion power plant facilities. Developed in the Julia programming language, it … power plants. Some time ago, in 2016, I was at DIFFER for a research internship focused on creating a zero-dimensional …
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… Bosman: Density profile and heat-exhaust control in nuclear fusion devices: Development of control methods in view of the operation of fusion power plants Differ researcher Thomas Bosman will defend his PhD thesis titled: …
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… Our research Within the Plasma Material Interactions group we … is currently among the key research topics in the nuclear fusion community. Here we approach this research question at … with industry, and experimental testing at various facilities in Europe besides DIFFER. This work is carried …
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