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Article describes successful test of liquid lithium limiter on China's EAST tokamak.

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Article describes possible new paradigm for inertial confinement fusion technique.

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'Four-Flavored' Tetraquark, Planets Born Like Cracking Paint, New 2D Materials, The World's Newest Atom-Smasher in the Physics News Source sponsored by AIP.

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Article describes the Digital Coil Protection System that safeguards the Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade at PPPL.

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicists collaborating on the Wendelstein 7-X (W 7-X) stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany were on hand for the Feb. 3 celebration when German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed a button to produce a hydrogen-fueled superhot gas called a plasma.

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In a research lab in Germany, researchers are preparing to switch on a 52-foot wide fusion device called a stellarator, that could change the game in fusion energy.

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Science and Technology Highlights from the DOE National Laboratories

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Researchers make breakthrough in understanding how to overcome obstacle to controlled fusion reactions.

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The dream of igniting a self-sustained fusion reaction with high yields of energy, a feat likened to creating a miniature star on Earth, is getting closer to becoming reality, according the authors of a new review article in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

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Steven J. Zinkle, a senior materials researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

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Researchers at ORNL have achieved a friction-stir technology milestone. By applying the magnetic properties of iron nanodots to materials, a research team has overcome an obstacle to getting ultra-thin films to perform on par. An application and algorithm tweaked by ORNL researchers to dramatically increase a supercomputer’s functionality is providing researchers with the potential to solve problems faster. A study published in Advanced Functional Materials has revealed several mechanisms behind ferroelectric relaxors behavior.

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Promising research on superconducting materials, near infra-red spectroscopy, and nanotechnology has earned three faculty at Tufts University's School of Engineering prestigious early career awards from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.

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The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a basic ordering agreement for design and fabrication of the Tokamak Cooling Water System (TCWS) – a major U.S. contribution to the ITER Project – to AREVA Federal Services LLC of Charlotte, N.C.

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Physicists at NIST are studying their own version of a sodium substitute - sodium-like tungsten ions that could be useful in monitoring the ultra-hot plasma inside fusion energy devices.

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The SNS has added another instrument to its eventual suite of 25. Wide tires on tractor-trailers can reduce the weight of a rig. In one of the largest experiments of its kind, thousands of cottonwood cuttings planted in common gardens in British Columbia, Oregon and California will help scientists determine which strains are best suited for cellulosic ethanol production. Fusion energy took a small step forward with a successful simulation performed on ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer.

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Engineers at UC San Diego's Center for Energy Research (CER) are working on some of the tough problems that stand in the way of efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly energy sources.

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

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1) ECOLOGY-- Nature's way . . . 2) MICROBIOLOGY -- A gut feeling . . . 3) NANOSCIENCE -- Atom-scale switch . . . 4) FUSION -- Lassoing turbulence . . . 5) CLIMATE -- Improving projections . . .