News - Fusion

  • Congratulations Sam!

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    Congratulations to Sam Ward, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in May 2022. Sam’s thesis is entitled, “Optimising energetic particle transport due to 3D...

  • Congratulations Eduardo!

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    Congratulations to Eduardo Solis Meza, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in May 2022. Eduardo’s thesis is entitled “Study of extreme ultraviolet laser ablation...

  • Fusion Industry School Success

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    The first Fusion Industry School (FIS) was held at the University of York during 20-24 June, 2022. Over 30 delegates were welcomed by Prof Matthias Ruth, University of York pVC...

  • Fusion Frontiers Week returns to the YPI!

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    The Fusion Frontiers and Interfaces workshop took place at York Plasma Institute (YPI) from 25 to 29 April 2022. This annual workshop explores the frontiers of fusion research and the...

  • Congratulations Andrew!

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    Congratulations to Andrew Malcolm-Neale, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in 2021. Andrew’s thesis is entitled “Experimental Search for Signatures of Zonal Flow Physics...

  • Congratulations Greg!

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    Congratulations to Greg Smith, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in 2021. Greg’s thesis is entitled “Negative ion production in low temperature hydrogen plasmas”...

  • Congratulations Joe!

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    Congratulations to Joe Allan, a York Fusion CDT student who successfully defended his thesis at viva in June 2021. Joe’s thesis is entitled “Design of the Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager-2...

  • S4E3 – Routes to Ignition

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    The concept of ignition in inertial confinement fusion is super important – we need to produce enough heat to ignite our fuel and get lots of fusion reactions (and therefore...

  • Fusion Energy at COP26

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    Aneeqa Khan, member of the Fusion CDT management board, took part in a panel discussion at COP26 alongside UKAEA and other organisations. See below for the UKAEA press release on...

  • Science X Outreach event in Manchester

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    ScienceX is an annual interactive science fair aiming to bring hands-on science and engineering to families. This year it was held at the Manchester Central Library and focused on the...