Research news

• A breakthrough by EU and US fusion researchers in PRL puts the brakes on high-speed electron beams in fusion tokamaks
  
• Printing tungsten components for high-temperature fusion experiments using electron beam melting
  
• Can a novel three-ion heating technique calm the roiling plasma in future fusion power plants?
  
• Machine learning can speed up models of complex fusion plasmas to faster than real time, opening the way to predictive models that can quickly optimise experiments and alert control systems to upcoming hick-ups in fusion plasma

Grants

EUROfusion has awarded multi-year grants to institutes and researchers throughout Europe. These will allow recipients to set up pioneering research projects and develop advanced computational methods for fusion in five Advanced Computing Hubs.

• https://www.euro-fusion.org/news/2021/march/eurofusion-e-tasc/
  
• https://www.euro-fusion.org/news/2021/march/eurofusion-awards-16-enabling-research-projects/
  

Facility

The German tokamak experiment ASDEX Upgrade is the birthplace of the unique high confinement plasma configuration for high-performance fusion.
This year, we look back on 30 years of exciting fusion research in this unique facility: https://www.euro-fusion.org/news/2021/march/30-years-of-asdex-upgrade/