http://www.innov-rosatom.ru/news/215/

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Насколько оправдывает себя реформа Академии наук?
Когда ученые смогут заниматься чистой наукой, не отвлекаясь на хозяйственные задачи?
Почему бюрократия в научной сфере пока не уменьшается и можно ли зарплаты исследователей сделать в 2 раза выше?
Итоги года в интервью каналу "Россия 24" подвел президент Российский академии наук Владимир Фортов.

http://rutv.ru/brand/show/episode/1465661/viewtype/tag

10th December 2015: The first plasma in Wendelstein 7-X. It consisted of helium and reached a temperature of about one million degrees Celsius. (coloured black-and-white photo).

On 10th December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. After more than a year of technical preparations and tests, experimental operation has now commenced according to plan. Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s largest stellarator-type fusion device, will investigate the suitability of this type of device for a power station.

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/3984226/12_15

Left: DIII-D tokamak. Right: Cross-section of plasma in which lithium has turned the emitted light green. (Credits: Left, General Atomics / Right, Steve Allen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Scientists from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a phenomenon that helps them to improve fusion plasmas, a finding that may quicken the development of fusion energy. Together with a team of researchers from across the United States, the scientists found that when they injected tiny grains of lithium into a plasma undergoing a particular kind of turbulence then, under the right conditions, the temperature and pressure rose dramatically. High heat and pressure are crucial to fusion, a process in which atomic nuclei – or ions – smash together and release energy — making even a brief rise in pressure of great importance for the development of fusion energy.

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http://www.pppl.gov/news/2015/05/little-drop-will-do-it-tiny-grains-lithium-can-dramatically-improve-performance-fusio-0