News - Fusion

  • Aneeqa in the news

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    Fusion CDT alumnum Aneeqa Khan featured on Sky News recently, explaining the science behind the ITER project. Aneeqa joined the Fusion CDT programme in 2012 and completed her PhD based...

  • S2E4 – 99 Percent of Nearly Everything

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    The last glass in our set: what can we do with plasma besides fusion energy? The answers will include fundamental physics, manufacturing, medicine and space tech… and we’re just getting...

  • Pride in London – July 2018

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    Following his participation in the LGBTSTEMinar that came to York earlier this year, Andrew Malcolm-Neale was asked to join PrideinSTEM* to march in Pride in London 2018. Andrew is a...

  • Congratulations Hannah!

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    Congratulations to Hannah Willett a York CDT student, who successfully defended her thesis at viva in August 2018. Her thesis is entitled “Applications of linear plasma device studies to the improvement...

  • S2E3 -Blood, Sweat and Materials Science

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    Never mind the seawater. Today it’s all about the glass and its materials. What happens in the challenging environments of a fusion reactor? Does the glass even exist yet? And...

  • Energy CDT Summer School 2018

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    From 9th to 11th July 2018 a summer school masterclass was held at University of Sheffield for Energy CDT students and supervisors. The summer school was funded by EPSRC and...

  • Nuclear Photonics 2018 – poster award for Chris Underwood

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    Christopher Underwood attended the Nuclear Photonics 2018 conference in Brasov, Romania in June 2018 and was awarded a Second Prize in their Best Poster Awards. Chris is a second year...

  • Let there be light

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    Shahnaz Hoque, a first year Fusion CDT student based at the University of Oxford, reports on an event she organised in June 2018: “I am a first year DPhil student...

  • How do you confine a Sun to a box?

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    For the past year Jack Haley (Fusion CDT student based at Oxford) has been working with animators to create a short film called ‘Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you...

  • S2E2 – Now for Something Completely Laser

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    This time our glass is positively effervescent – filled with High Energy Density Physics. To Will’s delight, we finally recorded an episode on laser fusion. In this episode we give...