Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 20 Feb 2025

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/nuclear-fusion-west-beats-the-world-record-for-plasma-duration.aspx 

World record fusion plasma in Europe

https://euro-fusion.org/member-news/cea/world-record-fusion-plasma-in-europe/ 

Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

https://news.mit.edu/2025/unlocking-secrets-fusions-core-ai-enhanced-simulations-0218 

Type One Energy to help grow fusion supply chain

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-02-18/article-6766/type-one-energy-to-help-equity-firm-grow-fusion-supply-chain/ 

Breaking New Ground: JET Tokamak’s Latest Fusion Energy Record Shows Mastery of Fusion Processes

https://euro-fusion.org/eurofusion-news/dte3record/ 

Major investment for Birmingham to fast-track fusion fuel development in the UK

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/major-investment-for-birmingham-to-fast-track-fusion-fuel-development-in-the-uk 

The Russian Plasma Rocket Revolution: Cutting Mars Travel Time to Just Weeks

https://www.scimag.news/news-en/122985/the-russian-plasma-rocket-revolution-cutting-mars-travel-time-to-just-weeks/ 

Experts unite to secure funding and launch fusion energy consultancy

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/nuclear/experts-unite-to-secure-funding-and-launch-fusion-energy-consultancy/ 

IAEA to Host International Symposium on AI and Nuclear Energy in December

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-to-host-international-symposium-on-ai-and-nuclear-energy-in-december 

New X-ray experiment could solve major physics puzzles

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ray-major-physics-puzzles.html 

High-entropy MOF enables efficient deuterium separation for clean energy

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-high-entropy-mof-enables-efficient.html 

[Of Interest]

Is It Time to Redefine Time?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-most-accurate-clocks-could-redefine-time/ 

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00455-y 

Microsoft claims quantum-computing breakthrough — but some physicists are sceptical

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00527-z 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

Verification that electrons are isothermal and protons adiabatic for ion-acoustic waves in unmagnetized collisionless PIC simulation plasma

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/2/024502/3336356/Verification-that-electrons-are-isothermal-and 

Solitary waves in dusty plasma with two dust species: Effects of dust size distributions

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/2/023703/3336199/Solitary-waves-in-dusty-plasma-with-two-dust