Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 10 Jun 2025

Igniting India’s fusion future

Current Science, Volume 128 - Issue 11: 10 Jun, 2025

https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/128/11/1090.pdf 

Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in fusion research

https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-performance-records-fusion-research 

New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy

https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-facility-accelerate-materials-solutions-fusion-energy-0609 

The ITER Fast Discharge building is completed

https://fusionforenergy.europa.eu/news/iter-construction-fast-discharge-building-busbar-bridges/ 

Commission launches Call for Evidence to support first-ever EU-wide Fusion Strategy

https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-launches-call-evidence-support-first-ever-eu-wide-fusion-strategy-2025-06-06_en 

Why is Google Investing in Nuclear Fusion With TAE?

https://technologymagazine.com/articles/google-tae-could-nuclear-fusion-solve-energy-problems 

Michel Koenig receives the Alfvén 2025 award

https://www.polytechnique.edu/en/news/michel-koenig-receives-alfven-2025-award 

Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483113-fusion-power-may-never-happen-if-we-dont-fix-the-lithium-bottleneck/ 

INRS and ELI deepen strategic partnership to train the next generation in laser science

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086332 

Announcement: The 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/060203/3349025/Announcement-The-2024-James-Clerk-Maxwell-Prize 

Foreword to special issue: Papers from the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 7–October 11, 2024

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/060202/3348585/Foreword-to-special-issue-Papers-from-the-66th 

Preventing particle leaks in fusion reactors 

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44350/Preventing-particle-leaks-in-fusion-reactors 

Scientists discover new, extremely neutron-deficient isotope protactinium-210

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086578 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

Plasma technology for the electrification of chemical reactions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00229-3 

The positron arm of a plasma-based linear collider

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02910-z 

Lithium enrichment threatens to curb fusion deployment

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125001783 

An implementation of a high-order generalized finite difference method for solving the time-harmonic cold plasma wave equation in toroidal geometry

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/063902/3348556/An-implementation-of-a-high-order-generalized 

Active ramp-down control and trajectory design for tokamaks with neural differential equations and reinforcement learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02146-6 

Localized structures and turbulent spectra through nonlinear interaction of kinetic Alfvén waves with magnetic null points in the solar wind plasma

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/062901/3348209/Localized-structures-and-turbulent-spectra-through 

Advanced analysis of spatiotemporal behaviors of modal structures and couplings for plasma tomography

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04755-1 

Effects of super-Gaussian electron velocity distribution functions on atomic kinetics and radiative emission of hot under-dense gold plasmas

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/062704/3348558/Effects-of-super-Gaussian-electron-velocity 

Nonlinear phenomena in the Josephson plasma vibrations and in the propagation of Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors of cylindrical configuration

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/ltp/article/51/6/671/3348248/Nonlinear-phenomena-in-the-Josephson-plasma 

Chirality-induced topological phase transitions in magnetized plasmas

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/062107/3349091/Chirality-induced-topological-phase-transitions-in 

Magnetic control strategies to reduce first wall heat loads in ITER

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379625003990 

On the integral form of a three-component plasma fluid model

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/063903/3349092/On-the-integral-form-of-a-three-component-plasma 

Wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by a spatiotemporal vortex in plasma

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/063105/3349131/Wakefield-generation-and-electron-acceleration 

Sub-micrometer spatial resolution Nomarski interferometer for time-resolved complex-amplitude imaging of femtosecond laser-induced air plasma

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/062106/3349115/Sub-micrometer-spatial-resolution-Nomarski 

Machine learning-based prediction of laser ablation impulse from plasma spectra

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/6/063301/3349024/Machine-learning-based-prediction-of-laser 

[Of Interest]

‘Integrity index’ flags universities with high retraction rates

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01727-3