… How fusion reaches new frontiers: Dutch Fusion Day 2025 … on May 9, 2025. A myriad of speakers covered business, research and governmental perspectives on the next and now … Alex Creely kicked off the day. He is Director of Tokamak Operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a …
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… Sidestepping physics to run fusion power plants Published on July 08, 2025 Fusion energy … its complex processes and machinery is a daunting task. Researchers at DIFFER think the solution to fusion may not … approach to fusion. Image Inside the Joint European Torus tokamak (JET) at Culham, UK, with a superimposed image of …
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… The protection of the wall of a fusion reactor: Data-driven models to control the heat exhaust in Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) Published on June 18, … PhD candidate at DIFFER, conducted experiments on the TCV research tokamak at the Swiss Plasma Centre in Lausanne. …
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… Fusion research facility JET’s final tritium experiments … megajoules using a mere 0.21 milligrams of fuel. JET is a tokamak, a design which uses powerful magnetic fields to … never done before and deepened our understanding of fusion physics.” Emmanuel Joffrin, EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation …
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… DIFFER and Gauss Fusion start Centre of Excellence for fusion energy: ‘Europe … its countries unite’ Published on October 18, 2024 Dutch research institute DIFFER and European fusion company Gauss … (in foreseen collaboration with partners in Denmark), control and life cycle management. The collaboration with …
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… intuition to strict control: Heat loss control method in fusion reactors in Nature Communications Published on … the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER and the EPFL’s … of measuring, calculating,and controlling to prevent the tokamak wall from being destroyed. Credit: Julia van Leeuwen …
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… Our fusion energy research The worldwide energy transition from … more Want to learn more about nuclear fusion? High school physics website natuurkunde.nl covered the quest for fusion … Modelling and Transport Prediction and control of tokamak transport within plasma simulation frameworks - …
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… FOM awards 2.3 million euros to tame fusion reactor exhaust Published on December 01, 2016 FOM Institute DIFFER is starting a large research program to tackle the greatest barrier on the road … protect the reactor wall from contact with the fusion plasma (hot, charged gas), except at the reactor's exhaust. …
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… A positive flow for researcher Mark Cornelissen: two publications in Nuclear Fusion journal Published on February 25, 2025 Recently, two … EPFL in Switzerland, where he will conduct research on the tokamak TCV. Cornelissen: "At DIFFER, I used Magnum-PSI for …
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… of plasma physics with machine learning techniques, DIFFER researchers developed a new ultrafast neural network model of the turbulent plasma in a fusion reactor. The neural network can accurately predict … for wide regimes in nuclear fusion plasmas – can predict tokamak plasma behavior within a few days using standard …
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… over a video connection: on 29 October 2020, the UK's new fusion device MAST Upgrade officially commenced operation. … upgrade programme of UKAEA's Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak, MAST Upgrade is essentially a completely new … will give important guidance to ITER and DEMO." Fusion researchers throughout Europe followed MAST Upgrade's first …
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… Exhaust control for SPARC: DIFFER and Commonwealth Fusion Systems join forces for future fusion energy … underscores DIFFER's commitment to conduct fundamental research on materials, processes, and systems for a … has been signed on 1 July 2024 by Alex Creely, director Tokamak Operations at CFS and Marco de Baar, director at …
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… van Berkel receives Vidi for holistic control system for fusion reactor Published on July 01, 2022 DIFFER researcher Matthijs van Berkel receives a prestigious Vidi … prevailing thought was: let's make sure we can maintain a plasma first. According to Van Berkel, refueling a fusion …
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… the Netherlands Professor emeritus Theoretical Plasma Physics, Physics and Astronomy Department, Utrecht … a pressure jump Authors: Hans Goedbloed and Stefaan Poedts (Research Notes of the AAS, 8, 60, 2024) … as laboratory applications focused on harnessing controlled fusion energy. This introduction to magnetohydrodynamics …
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… Bridge builder Tony Donné looks back on career as a fusion researcher Published on December 13, 2023 Tony Donné … A year later I got a permanent job as head of the TORTUR tokamak group and a year after that as head of the …
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