… 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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… New approach simplifies fusion physics Published on November 05, 2018 Sometimes it … complex problems. That is exactly what happened when DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel used a systems engineering …
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… IEEE Outstanding Student Paper Prize (OSPP) for DIFFER researcher Chris Orrico Published on December 17, 2024 … prize rewards his Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) publication ‘Mixed-Integer MPC Strategies for Fueling and Density Control in Fusion Tokamaks’. The prize was presented by the technical …
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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… (Eindhoven University of Technology) have received 1.6 million euros to make liquid fuels from green electricity, water … of fuel production. Syngaschem BV is funding half of the research programme. FOM and NWO Chemical Sciences are … main themes are sustainable energy production from nuclear fusion and large-scale storage of sustainable energy in the …
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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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