Artificial intelligence tools secure tomorrow’s electric grid
Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Fusion Energy (12)
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (90)
- Clean Energy (42)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (2)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (7)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (28)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (8)
- Materials (65)
- Materials for Computing (10)
- National Security (24)
- Neutron Science (101)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (38)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (2)
- Quantum information Science (8)
- Supercomputing (66)
Media Contacts
Scientists have tested a novel heat-shielding graphite foam, originally created at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator with promising results for use in plasma-facing components of fusion reactors.
When it’s up and running, the ITER fusion reactor will be very big and very hot, with more than 800 cubic meters of hydrogen plasma reaching 170 million degrees centigrade. The systems that fuel and control it, on the other hand, will be small and very cold. Pellets of frozen gas will be shot int...