Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 11 Sep 2025

India on the ITER way

https://www.neimagazine.com/analysis/india-on-the-iter-way/ 

Cryopump commissioning - Let there be cold

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/let-there-be-cold 

[Latest ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/whatsnew/468] 

Nuclear Fusion in Palladium Metal. No, Really.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nuclear-fusion-palladium-metal-no-really 

A Dual Ion Beam Tests New Steel Under Fusion Energy-Producing Conditions

https://alumni.umich.edu/lifelong-learning/gateway/a-dual-ion-beam-tests-new-steel-under-fusion-energy-producing-conditions/ 

CFS powers ahead with new funding

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/cfs-powers-ahead-with-new-funding/ 

Mitsubishi Backs US-Based Fusion Energy Startup

https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/energy/mitsubishi-backs-us-based-fusion-energy-startup/ 

Energy Department Announces $134 Million to Advance U.S. Fusion Leadership Through Targeted Research

https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-134-million-advance-us-fusion-leadership-through-targeted 

Plasma engine will help remove space debris from orbit

https://universemagazine.com/en/plasma-engine-will-help-remove-space-debris-from-orbit/ 

New consortium to address industry need for nuclear heat and power

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-09-02/article-7337/new-consortium-to-address-industry-need-for-nuclear-heat-and-power/ 

Particle detector proves precision as it prepares to probe properties of quark-gluon plasma

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-particle-detector-precision-probe-properties.html 

APS student members weigh futures in both industry and academia

https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2025/09/student-members-futures-industry-academia 

Hanford looks inside sealed nuclear reactors using modern technology

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7329/hanford-looks-inside-sealed-nuclear-reactors-using-new-technology/ 

U.S. nuclear fuel recycling takes two steps forward

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7348/us-nuclear-fuel-recycling-takes-two-steps-forward/ 

NNSA, LANL Receive Authorization To Depressurize Tritium Waste Containers

https://losalamosreporter.com/2025/09/08/nnsa-lanl-receive-authorization-to-depressurize-tritium-waste-containers/ 

NuCycle advances waste-to-fuel solution

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/nucycle-advances-waste-to-fuel-solution/ 

Clearest signal yet from colliding black holes yields most precise confirmation of Hawking’s area theorem

https://www.aps.org/about/news/2025/09/clearest-signal-hawkings-area-theorem 

The history of heavy ions

https://cerncourier.com/a/the-history-of-heavy-ions/

How did the oldest star clusters form?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02598-4 

Atomic Canyon, Idaho National Labs to set AI standards for nuclear

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/atomic-canyon-idaho-national-labs-to-set-ai-standards-for-nuclear/ 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

MHD, disruptions and control physics: Chapter 4 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ade7a0 

Strong anomalous absorption of an X-mode pump microwave in a plasma filament due to the two-plasmon decay instability

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/9/092101/3361268/Strong-anomalous-absorption-of-an-X-mode-pump 

Effects of hydrogen on sputter-deposited boron carbide films

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/article/138/9/095301/3361216/Effects-of-hydrogen-on-sputter-deposited-boron 

Plasma damage-free in situ etching of ß-Ga2O3 using solid-source gallium in the LPCVD system

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/127/10/102105/3362053/Plasma-damage-free-in-situ-etching-of-Ga2O3-using 

Calibration of a gated neutron time-of-flight spectrometer with low-afterglow 

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/article/96/9/093502/3361988/Calibration-of-a-gated-neutron-time-of-flight 

[Of Interest]

Global geopolitics should not stall science — 5 ways to push back

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02814-1 

Two takes on the economics of big science

https://cerncourier.com/a/two-takes-on-the-economics-of-big-science/ 

Empowering the next generation: ANS’s newest book focuses on careers in nuclear energy

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-09-09/article-7319/empowering-the-next-generation-anss-newest-book-focuses-on-careers-in-nuclear-energy/