A new method for measuring fusion power

Recently, a group of researchers from ISTP, in collaboration with their associates from the University of Milan Bicocca, Italian researchers from ENEA research center in Frascati and University of Milan and a group foreign researchers, demonstrated a new and alternative method for measuring fusion power in tokamaks using a deuterium and tritium mixture.The method, demonstrated

Article #9 – The Article of Research – CNR meets the schools

‘The Republic promotes the development of culture and scientific and technical research. (omissis).’ This is what Article 9 of the Constitution says, establishing among the fundamental principles the strategic role played by Research and Science for the development and innovation of communities. On Feb. 29, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Expo

JET’s final tritium experiments yield new energy record

The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion experiment, has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, whilst simultaneously setting a world-record in energy output. The third and final series of deuterium-tritium experiments at the UKAEA’s Joint European Torus successfully achieved high fusion power, consistently produced for 5

JT-60SA: Inauguration ceremony

On Friday December 1st 2023 starting at 6:00 CET, the Inauguration Ceremony of the JT-60SA tokamak will take place at Naka site in Japan, hosted by the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and Fusion for Energy, with representatives and guests from both Japan and Europe. The Director of the CNR Department of

New solutions for future fusion power plants tested at the Joint European Torus

The EUROfusion consortium announced the completion of the third deuterium-tritium experimental campaign at the Joint European Torus (JET). The third and final series of deuterium-tritium experiments at the UKAEA’s Joint European Torus successfully achieved its goal! The campaign investigated the processes that will come into play in future fusion power plants, like fuel retention in

The First Tokamak plasma for JT-60SA

The team of engineers and scientists from Europe and Japan have successfully achieved a tokamak plasma for the first time at JT-60SA, the biggest experimental fusion device to date using magnetic confinement. The result will be carefully examined as the teams will continue to perform more tests during the next weeks. The JT-60SA device, otherwise

Towards a new CNR: what tools to face the challenges of increasingly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research

CNR researchers increasingly carry out research on complex systems for which interdisciplinarity is an essential requirement. However, putting interdisciplinarity into practice represents a very difficult challenge. Unlike multidisciplinarity, in which disciplines meet while maintaining their autonomy, interdisciplinarity implies the shared creation of a theoretical framework of the objectives, concepts, methods and terminologies adopted. Added to

FuseNet Teacher Day: A day dedicated to teachers across Europe

ISTP participates in FuseNet Teacher Day: the purpose is to introduce high school teachers from all over Europe to nuclear fusion and facilitate discussions with them about teaching the topic to their students. The Italian session is organized by Politecnico di Milano and ISTP and will take place on Wednesday, October 4, from 4 to

The third deuterium-tritium experimental campaign at JET

The EUROfusion consortium announces the start of the third deuterium-tritium experimental campaign at the Joint European Torus (JET). This will be the final experiment at JET making use of the fuel mix of deuterium and tritium, essential for next-gen devices like ITER, the European DEMO, and subsequent fusion power plants. The campaign’s primary objectives are

International women’s day

On March 8th, #internationalwomen’s day, ISTP wants to celebrate the role of women in scientific research. We are pleased to share the initiative of Consorzio RFX Padova, that realized a video to promote and support the presence of young women towards STEM and #fusion research, where they can play a key and active role searching