{"id":443,"date":"2016-04-19T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:08:50","slug":"playing-catch-up-can-the-stellarator-win-the-race-to-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/playing-catch-up-can-the-stellarator-win-the-race-to-fusion-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing catch up: can the stellarator win the race to fusion energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-technology.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-446\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendelstein20stellarator-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Wendelstein%20stellarator\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendelstein20stellarator-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendelstein20stellarator.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-technology.com\">Power Technology<\/a> has published an interesting article on fusion research,\u00a0given\u00a0<em>the\u00a0first promising results<\/em> from the new Wendelstein 7-X stellarator device at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wendelstein 7-X produced its first hydrogen plasma in February 2016, sparking speculation that the stellarator could overtake the tokamak as the leading experimental form of nuclear fusion energy production.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-technology.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-444 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/klinger_11.jpg\" alt=\"klinger_11\" width=\"158\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Klinger\/IPP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; ;margin-left: 10px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tony-Donne-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tony-Donne\" width=\"158\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tony-Donne-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tony-Donne-799x1024.jpg 799w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tony-Donne.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Donn\u00e9\/EUROfusion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check the full article\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-technology.com\/features\/featureplaying-catch-up-can-the-stellarator-win-the-race-to-fusion-energy-4866342\/#\">here<\/a><\/strong>, with comments by Wendelstein 7-X Scientific Director Professor <b>Thomas Klinger<\/b> and Professor <b>Tony Donn\u00e9<\/b>, programme manager at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-fusion.org\">EUROfusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Technology has published an interesting article on fusion research,\u00a0given\u00a0the\u00a0first promising results from the new Wendelstein 7-X stellarator device at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics. Wendelstein 7-X produced its first hydrogen plasma in February 2016, sparking speculation that the stellarator could overtake the tokamak as the leading experimental form of nuclear fusion energy &#8230; <a title=\"Playing catch up: can the stellarator win the race to fusion energy?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/playing-catch-up-can-the-stellarator-win-the-race-to-fusion-energy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Playing catch up: can the stellarator win the race to fusion energy?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}