DA VINCI’S IMPOSSIBLE “TOKAMAK DRAWING”. The exploration of the now-digitized Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks continues to amaze the worldwide scientific community. A few weeks ago, engineers at the California...
Author: Deepak Bora
February 19, 2023. Fires blazed through a protected wilderness in northeastern Argentina in February 2023. Home to jaguars, capybaras, and giant anteaters, Iberá National Park has reportedly been burning since...
Featured
Top Stories
ITER, France. Nuclear Fusion Resultant Clean, Green Energy. “Commissioning. THE (TEMPORARY) MAIN CONTROL ROOM IS OPERATING.”
Written by Pat Brans. In November 2022, “ongoing operations” started in the temporary main control room. This important milestone is another sign of the progress in systems commissioning. Since...
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of...
PF1 passed the ITER gates at around 4:15 a.m. on Friday 10 February. The long journey had begun on 1 November 2022 when the coil departed the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard...
Cryogenics play a central role in the ITER Tokamak: the machine’s superconducting magnets (10,000 tonnes in total), the vacuum pumps, thermal shields and some elements of the diagnostic systems...
A CLEAR PICTURE IS EMERGING. Under a vast plastic tent set up in the Cryostat Workshop, workers in protective gear are busy cleaning the surface of a thermal shield...
Featured
Top Stories
ITER, FRANCE. Nuclear Fusion for Clean Energy. The year that was. Headlines and a shared Ideal.
In the very last days of the year 2021, the European JET, the largest of all operating tokamaks, achieved a first-ever sustained, high-confinement plasma and practically doubled its 1997 energy production...
August 24, 2022. City University of New York (CUNY). The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world....
. Mar Chiquita in central Argentina is a shallow, salty, and variable lake. When the water level is high, the lake covers as much as 6,000 square kilometers (2,300...