by SFA | Jul 21, 2017 | Posts
Can you believe they are trying to build a Sun on Earth? – Director Mila Aung-Thwin was amazed when he first heard about ITER. He immediately felt the need to tell the story of the fusion quest and began to work on a documentary. Four years and four visits to the ITER...
by SFA | Apr 21, 2017 | Posts
Specific tasks have been defined under the EUROfusion Work Package on Plasma Facing Components (WP PFC) for which the usage of linear facilities able to handle beryllium, such as PISCES-B, is necessary. For the 2017-2018 EU-US collaboration in the PISCES-B Facility...
by SFA | Mar 28, 2017 | Posts
The subject of the project titled “Upgrade of laboratory experimental system to study interaction of H or D atoms with liquid Sn or Sn/Li” is in the Liquid metals as PFCs section, and is focused on Sn and Sn/Li characterization. Experiments with liquid metal plasma...
by SFA | Dec 22, 2016 | Posts
Tungsten or advanced tungsten alloys are considered to be the most suitable material for plasma-facing components in future fusion reactors such as DEMO. In these nuclear devices tritium retention in neutron-damaged tungsten will become a more significant issue. In...
by SFA | Dec 3, 2015 | Posts
The European Fusion Programme Workshop – EFPW 2015 was hosted by the Slovenian Fusion Association (SFA) and Jožef Stefan Institute in Bled, Slovenia, from 30th November till 2nd December. The topic of the Workshop addressed material development and components...
