Fusion News, June 26, 2024

Cyd Cowley, Fusion Solution Consultant at digiLab, gives today's global Fusion News update, highlighting the major recent developments in fusion.

Links to all the fusion news stories are included below:

1. Hybrid design could make nuclear fusion reactors more efficient

2. Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution

3. A Plasma Escape Plan Solved a Monumental Fusion Roadblock

4. CNL launches new initiatives to fast-track fusion energy deployment

Bonus:

[TomMcinerney-gb]

I've only watched a few FIA news updates. I do get some sense that we now have a maturing 'industry' with mature information exchange. Great news!

[VONVOL]

You're a wonderful communicator Dr Cowley. No doubt that you apply that same passion to your new profession as a scientist. The fusion industry is lucky to have you.

[bluefox]

It's great to see you develop your confidence with presenting through watching the videos you produce, and also great news on earning the Doctorship!

[petercrossley]

Brilliant diction and projection Dr Cowley. It is a delight to listen to you.

[LugP]

Congratulations Dr. Cowley! Thank you for investing your time for this FIA update videos.

[hex-automata]

Thanks for bringing us to speed, and congratulations Dr. Cowley, you have a bright future in a very important field.

[solps_iterga]

Congrats of the Dr! And I love the shirt.

[johnh]

A very clear presentation. Perhaps Dr Cowley can tell us how the plasmas will be controlled in the DT operation when the high energy neutrons will knock the hell out of sensors and insulators in a matter of minutes?

[franciscotrevino]

It is great to see that scientific community increases its ranks with well prepared people like you. Congratulations Dr. Cowley.

[jjeherrera]

While mixing tokamaks and stellarators might bring the best of both, care should be taken not to bring the worst of both. To be fair, studies at the University of Auburn Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) experiment have proven it's possible to reduce disruptions.

[alexrussell]

Who knew doctors could be so smoking hawttt 🥵🌶♨?!

[jjeherrera]

Congratulations! I'm sure you have a great career ahead.

[DavidAlanGilbert]

Congratulations on the Doctorate - remember, you can only use 'Trust me I'm a Doctor' a few times :-)

[davidallyn]

congrats!! ... doctor Cowley Finally, the U.S. govt is recognizing the importance of fusion research. In the past, it did the equivalent of giving a nice corner-smile-glance, but never really dealt with it as a serious alternative energy generation method. If we can crack this nut, we'll never want for electricity - we'll always have more than we'd want.

[patrickmchargue]

Could you cover Lawrenceville Plasma's DPF device?

[stevenpowell]

I am hopeful by the time you are in your 80s progress will have been made.

[donelson]

Don't the toruses become radioactive from neutron bombardment after some time? Would that be considered nuclear waste? I have been asking this question since 1972

[royeasto]

One thing that I have never had explained to me is what happens when a 100 million degree photon hits the container wall, is the energy absorbed and diffused into nearby atoms or does that atom get blasted off the wall and into the chamber which I assume would prevent this type of fusion?

[markcomerford]

Congratulaions on earning your PhD, your license to practice as a scientist (as I was told myself once long ago).

[undertow]

So then is it a “Stellamak” or “Tokarator?”