The Institute of Plasma Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences have set a new world record in fusion by achieving 101.2 seconds in the so-called H-mode confinement regime in a fusion reactor on the 3rd of July.
The experiment was conducted on Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei, China.
This week, from 6th to 8th of June, our group leader Mervi Mantsinen has participated in the Workshop on Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency Heating (ICRH) scenarios for ITER organized at ITER Headquarters, France.
For the first time, scientists have been able to simulate the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high-confinement mode (H-mode) that sustains fusion reactions. The detailed simulation is the first basic physics, or first-principles-based, modeling with few simplifying assumptions.
Next week, the documentary film entitled “Let There Be Light” will arrive at the 2017 DOCSBARCELONA international documentary film festival. The movie will be shown in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) on Friday 26th of May at 8 pm and Sunday 28th of May at 5 pm.
From the 2nd to the 4th May, three members of the Fusion Group at BSC participated in the 4th Severo Ochoa Doctoral Symposium, two of them as Poster Presenters and one as volunteer to help its organization.
The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to provide a framework to share the research results that form the theses being developed by young researchers and postgraduate students at BSC. On the other hand, it offers training sessions on topics and skills that may be useful to future researchers and professionals.
Felipe Nathan de Oliveira, a Master student working in our fusion group, presented his work on “Stabilization of microturbulence by fast ions”. His poster is part of an ongoing investigation aiming to find evidence of electromagnetic stabilization of Ion Temperature Gradients, a microturbulence found in tokamak-like fusion reactors.
Over the past couple of weeks, our Fusion group has counted with the visits of two Fusion Scientists from United States and Germany under the Severo Ochoa mobility program of Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The program aims at enhancing partnerships between BSC and other institutions through grants for ongoing and incoming researchers.