{"id":606,"date":"2016-05-23T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=606"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:26:12","slug":"launch-of-national-spherical-torus-experiment-upgrade-at-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/launch-of-national-spherical-torus-experiment-upgrade-at-princeton\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade at Princeton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1229\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exterior_NSTX-e1477167927447-400x257.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exterior_NSTX-e1477167927447-400x257.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exterior_NSTX-e1477167927447.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NSTX exterior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">Last Friday, 20 May 2016, was a historic day at\u00a0the <strong>Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pppl.gov\/\">PPPL<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0It was a day that the $94-million upgrade to <strong>National Spherical Torus Experiment<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/nstx-u.pppl.gov\/\">NSTX-U<\/a>), which\u00a0took almost four years to build,\u00a0was officially launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary <strong>Ernest Moniz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Funded by the DOE Office of Science,\u00a0NSTX-U\u00a0addresses how to create fusion, the process that powers the Sun, on Earth, in a device based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spherical_tokamak\">spherical tokamak <\/a>concept.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">U.S. Department of Energy Secretary <b>Ernest Moniz<\/b> is a Nuclear Physicist and Secretary since May 2013.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<em>The vastly expanded capabilities of this spherical tokamak will enable us to explore new physics regimes and tackle the major engineering problems for fusion energy<\/em>,\u201d said the Secretary.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The fusion community receives with arms wide open the trust and enthusiasm from all spheres of society, since High School students until Heads of State.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8220;<em>This is exciting new territory, and we\u2019re thrilled to embark on the next frontier of fusion research. This device could transform the world by showing us the way to a pilot plant design for the generation of power from fusion energy for use by all<\/em>,\u201d concluded\u00a0<strong>Stewart Prager, director of PPPL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">More information can be found <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pppl.gov\/news\/2016\/05\/energy-secretary-moniz-launches-nation%E2%80%99s-newest-fusion-experiment-pppl\">here<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, 20 May 2016, was a historic day at\u00a0the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).\u00a0\u00a0It was a day that the $94-million upgrade to National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX-U), which\u00a0took almost four years to build,\u00a0was officially launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz. Funded by the DOE Office of Science,\u00a0NSTX-U\u00a0addresses how to &#8230; <a title=\"Launch of National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade at Princeton\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/launch-of-national-spherical-torus-experiment-upgrade-at-princeton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Launch of National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade at Princeton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}