News - Fusion

  • Fusion CDT students present fusion news

    Ella Fox-Widdows, a third year Fusion CDT student (University of Liverpool), recently started working with the Fusion Industry Association presenting fusion news updates. Ella tells us more: “I’m very excited...

  • Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop 2020

    York Plasma Institute (YPI) hosts the ‘Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces’ workshop for two and a half days annually in the summer term (late April /early May). This is our biggest...

  • S4E2 – STEPisode

    UK nuclear fusion energy got a big budget boost last year as designs for a power plant prototype were commissioned – a project called STEP. We sit down with UKAEA...

  • Congratulations Michail!

    Congratulations to Michail Anastopoulos Tzanis, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in November 2019. Michail’s thesis is entitled “Beyond Axisymmetry in Tokamak Plasmas” and...

  • Congratulations László!

    Congratulations to László Horváth, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. László’s thesis is entitled “Isotope dependence of the H-mode pedestal in...

  • New podcasting kit!

    In April 2019 the ‘A Glass of Seawater’ podcast team won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize and in January the team spent their prize money on new podcasting equipment....

  • S4E1 – Laser Fusion Schemes

    A second round on laser fusion energy ignition research! Here we discuss advanced ignition schemes and big laser facilities. We also get to have a closer look at what Phil,...

  • Congratulations Siobhan!

    Congratulations to Siobhan Smith, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended her thesis at viva in December 2019. Siobhan’s thesis is entitled “Numerical simulations of edge localised mode instabilities...

  • Congratulations Ben!

    Congratulations to Ben Woods, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in December 2019. His thesis is entitled “Nonlinear wave-particle resonance in deterministic and stochastic...

  • Sam and Bhavin – research trips to San Diego

    Sam Gibson and Bhavin Patel have both recently returned from successful research trips to General Atomics in San Diego. Sam Gibson (a fourth year Durham University Fusion CDT student) was...