PMI research group news

During the Plasma Facing Components Conference PFMC2019, DIFFER has installed a Steering Committee for its research facility Magnum-PSI.

A heat shield of liquid metal automatically limits the temperature of a fusion reactor's inner wall, no matter how high the incoming heat load.

On Wednesday 21 March, the research facility Magnum-PSI at DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) set a new world record for longest exposure of a material to the harsh plasma conditions in future fusion reactors.

The journal Physics of Plasmas has chosen the paper An analytical force balance model for dust particles with size up to several Debye lengths (Damien Aussems et al.) as editor's pick in its November 2017 issue.

The EUROfusion research consortium has appointed DIFFER group leader Dr. Thomas Morgan as the leader of its new work package on self-repairing liquid metal walls for the exhaust of future fusion reactors.