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

The New Frontiers of Energy

On June 15, 2023, at the CNR Research Area in Padova, the event “The New Frontiers of Energy”, will take place as part of the “open doors” initiatives promoted by the National Research Council on the occasion of its centennial anniversary (1923-2023). The event will showcase research on new forms of energy, energy efficiency, and

CNR delegation visiting ITER

Lo scorso 30 maggio, una rappresentanza del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Cnr), guidata dalla Presidente Maria Chiara Carrozza, ha visitato a Cadarache, nel sud della Francia, il sito dove è in costruzione ITER, l’impianto sperimentale più grande al mondo per la fusione termonucleare controllata.  ITER si propone di dimostrare che è possibile produrre energia da fusione
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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

ISTP at the Festival delle Scienze in Rome

ISTP contributes to the Festival della Scienza in Genoa through an exhibition and a conference dedicated to the topic of energy.

ISTP at the Festival della Scienza in Genoa

ISTP contributes to the Festival della Scienza in Genoa through an exhibition and a conference dedicated to the topic of energy.