Physicists plead to make final tweak to fusion experiment

Article Abstract:

An international fusion reactor (ITER) which would work by using a web of carefully constructed magnetic fields to suspend a plasma gas, which is heated to hundreds of millions of degrees would cost roughly US$6 billion to build and aims to be the first fusion reactor to produce more power than it consumes. A tweak to those fields is being proposed, based on findings by plasma physicist Todd Evans and his team at General Atomics where they successfully demonstrated a technique for preventing dangerous, lightning-like plasma discharges that could damage key parts of the reactor.

United States, Product development, Science & research, Electric services, Motor and Generator Manufacturing, Motors and generators, Fusion Reactors, Research, Usage, Nuclear industry, Magnetic fields, General Atomics

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Magnetic effect sends physicists into a spin

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The effect, called ballistic magnetoresistance (BMR), theoretically allows manufacturers to boost the data capacity of hard-drives, packing trillions of bits into a single square inch of disk surface. But the data capacity of computer hard-drives could be greatly increased if a physics result proves true.

Memories & Storage Devices, Capacity, Technology application, Computer storage devices, Data storage device, Magnetoresistance

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Lab relations sour as 'missing disk' charges are proved false

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Two classified computer disks that allegedly vanished in 2004, at Los Alamos nuclear-weapons laboratory in New Mexico never existed as reported after an investigation by the government agency that oversees the lab. The conclusion that the disks never existed has infuriated many of the lab's researchers.

Legal issues & crime, New Mexico, Company legal issue, Investigations, Weapons laboratories

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