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To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well.
Ages: 16-19;
Measuring the temperature inside a fusion reactor is no easy task. Find out how it’s done – and even simulate it in the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
Finding out what is going on in the core of a fusion experiment at 100 million degrees Celsius is no easy matter, but there are clever ways to work it out.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Renewable, clean, unlimited energy – how can it be achieved? Christine Rüth from EFDA introduces the tokamak, the most advanced fusion device.
Ages: < 11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Ages: 16-19;
Henri Boffin from ESOw1 in Garching, Germany, follows the mystery of gamma-ray bursts from their first discovery to the most recent research on these dramatic astronomical explosions.
Ages: 16-19;
Péter Székely from the University of Szeged, Hungary, and Örs Benedekfi from the European Fusion Development Agreement in Garching, Germany, investigate how a star dies and what a nearby supernova explosion would mean for us on Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Does alchemy sound too good to be true? Paola Rebusco, Henri Boffin and Douglas Pierce-Price, from ESO in Garching, Germany, describe how creating gold – and other heavy metals – is possible, though sadly not in the laboratory.
Ages: 16-19;
Henri Boffin and Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, in Garching, Germany, investigate our celestial ancestry.
Ages: 16-19;
Mark Tiele Westra from the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) in Garching, Germany, elucidates the source of power on Earth: the Sun
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
June 2, 2014 | Issue 29
Super cold meets super hot
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February 20, 2013 | Issue 26
A thermometer that goes to 200 million degrees
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August 21, 2012 | Issue 24
Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments
Topics: Physics, General science, Chemistry, Engineering
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February 22, 2012 | Issue 22
Harnessing the power of the Sun: fusion reactors
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December 8, 2009 | Issue 13
The first light in the Universe
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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December 6, 2007 | Issue 7
Fusion in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts
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September 18, 2007 | Issue 6
Fusion in the Universe: when a giant star dies…
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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June 6, 2007 | Issue 5
Fusion in the Universe: where your jewellery comes from
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March 9, 2007 | Issue 4
Fusion in the Universe: we are all stardust
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December 20, 2006 | Issue 3
Fusion in the Universe: the power of the Sun
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