In the last decade it became a traditon that researchers and engineers of the Wigner Physics Research Center left the keyboards, screwdrivers behind, leaving the comfort of labs and go the Sziget festival to tell young people from all over the world about nuclear fusion. At the festival, the Hungarian Nuclear Society’s Youth for Nuclear Energy and Fusion Group jointly promoted the presence and future […]
Fusion at BME Children’s University
(Written by Dr. Gergő Pokol and Mátyás Aradi) Children’s University summer camp was organized at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) from 26 June till 7 July 2017, which aims to promote engineering and natural sciences among elementary school children. The young students listened to lectures and participated at seminars where they could experience the life of a researcher. At the end of […]
Fusion and FINA World Championships
Did you know that the amount of energy which can be extracted with fusion from the water in a 50 meter long Olympic size pool like Duna Aréna‘s could serve the energy needs of a Budapest size city for more than 4 years? And the fact that more than half of the world’s population are building the first power plant size fusion experimental reactor? No? […]
Sun on Earth, the ITER project
Fusion energy production is an old dream of mankind, the developments of a fusion power plant have been long underway. Countries including more than half of the world population have joined to create ITER, the biggest research project on Earth. The members are China, the EU, India, Japan, South-Korea, Russia, the USA. Download from here. Fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two light nuclei […]
Hotter than the Sun, colder than hell
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Hungarians at the forefront of fusion research
Sorry, this article is only available in Hungarian but there are similar ones available in English as well. For example Our new diagnostics shipped to MAST-Upgrade tokamak We also continuously work on to make contents available in English as well.
