Posts Tagged ‘fusion’
Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Fusion research at Iter: unlocking the power of the sun The world’s leading powers have finally agreed to finance a joint nuclear fusion project Telegraph Stunning new image of two galaxies A new image from Chandra X-ray Observatoryshows two Antennae galaxies as the crash into one another Daily Mail Squeezing more out of [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part 6
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. Another short week of lectures this week – just two. Tuesday saw me up very early and braving the M40 traffic to get into London for my talks in Camden. Then it was north into Hertfordshire for talks in Hatfield. [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part 5
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. Last time we were talking about how we can use magnetic fields to trap charged particles. There are a variety of machines that can be used to do this, such as the tokamak, the stellerator and the reversed-field pinch. The [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part two
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction: The second destination on my country-wide schools lecture tour was Liverpool. I was speaking at the University of Liverpool to pupils of various different schools in the area. Now, before we start to talk about the fusion reaction used in tokamaks, [...]
IOP Schools Lecture 2010 – Part One
Taking in 35 venues across the UK, this year’s Institute of Physics Schools Lecturer, Dr Melanie Windridge, will explain to 13 000 students how scientists working on nuclear fusion hope to replicate the behaviour of the Sun here on Earth to produce a plentiful and environmentally friendly energy source. Melanie, who has a PhD in plasma [...]
