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18 participants from 6 international fusion institutes are meeting at DIFFER for a ‘RAPTOR week’ to discuss ongoing work around the RAPTOR code. RAPTOR is a control-oriented simulation code for tokamak fusion plasmas that is used for various applications.

Jaime Gómez Rivas, group leader at DIFFER and professor at the Applied Physics faculty of Eindhoven University of Technology, has won one of the 34 prestigious Vici grants of NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

DIFFER's social media channels have new names (and addresses) as a consequence of the institute's transition to the NWO organisation. On January 1st 2017, our parent organisation FOM was incorporated into NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The DIFFER institute is directly part of NWO now. The transition is part of a governance and organisation change at NWO.

After the successful delivery of Magnum-PSI's new superconducting magnet in October 2016, DIFFER's main research facility to study Plasma Surface Interactions is now being commissioned for its first experimental campaign in its new location.

In the NaSTOR project, İlker Doğan is cooperating with the company Exergy Storage to develop a cost-competitive sodium-sulfur battery for residential storage of energy from own solar panels or wind turbines.