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HiPER Publications
News
May 28th 2009
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Europe's big lasers: the exawatt roadmap Researchers and industry will need to work closely together if Europe is to maximize the returns on its investment in a planned new generation of high-power laser facilities being built over the next decade...... |
May 28th 2009
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California fires up laser fusion machine Success at National Ignition Facility could pave the way for commercial laser fusion power stations and provide a solution to world energy crisis..... |
May 14th 2009
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A significant decision for HiPER A significant milestone in the HiPER project occurred on 5th March in INFN (Frascati) when the HiPER Executive Board took the unanimous decision that HiPER should operate at high repetition rate – consistent with the requirements of a future fusion reactor...... |
May 13th 2009
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EVENT International School of Quantum Electronics 46th Course Atoms & plasmas in super intense laser fields Erice-Sicily: 10 - 16 July 2009 |
May 11th 2009
April 29th 2009
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Big lasers, big science, big questions Caryl Richards reports from Prague on Europe's plans for petawatt lasers and beyond.... |
April 14th 2009
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Preparing Scientists for a fusion-powered future A pioneering new course at the University of York will train scientists whose work could pave the way for a world powered by limitless energy...... |
April 1st 2009
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Experiment to advance fusion hopes Dr Kate Lancaster, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, says fusion is the holy grail of physics.... |
March 31st 2009
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World’s biggest laser powers up Physicists are on the verge of demonstrating perhaps the ultimate application of the laser: creating nuclear fusion in the lab..... |
March 31st 2009
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Giant Laser Experiment Powers Up The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun. |
March 15th 2009
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Lasers to create mini sun in hunt for clean energy Physicists hope to develop the first form of nuclear fusion technology by firing laser beams at a pellet of hydrogen |
February 17th 2009
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Horizon 2008-2009 - Can we make a star on Earth? The BBC Horizon programme looks into how scientists and engineers are tackling the greatest challenge - making fusion power. BBC iPlayer (programme may have limited availability) |
February 16th 2009
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How to build a star on Earth Physicist Professor Brian Cox has looked at the different strategies now being pursued to make nuclear fusion a reality. His personal assessment is presented on the BBC's Horizon programme...... |
February 6th 2009
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A Europa vai "HiPER" No passado dia 6 de outubro, mais de duzentos cientistas e políticos de dez países Europeus e dos estados unidos - incluindo três cientistas de Portugal..... |
January 29th 2009
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Science: So we can help save the planet - 1. So Laser Fusion The holy grail of nuclear research has long been the ‘fusion’ reactor. It uses the power that drives the sun, so we know it works, but scientists have yet to replicate the process on Earth..... |
December 27th 2008
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Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage.... |
October 19th 2008
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The Naked Scientists: Science Radio & Science Podcasts Fusion power with lasers: an interview with Dr Kate Lancaster from the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory... |
October 13th 2008
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Plans for ground-breaking power station move forwardPLANS which could see a groundbreaking power station built in Oxfordshire have taken a step forward. Scientists and Government officials from Britain and nine other countries have signed an agreement to co-operate on the planning and design of HiPER (High Power Laser Energy Research Facility)........ |
October 9th 2008
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Futuristic laser energy research group launched The UK is to take a co-ordinating role in a new project that was launched this week that will promote the use of lasers with nuclear fusion as an energy source, writes Rachel James.......... |
October 8th 2008
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Progetto HiPER - fusione nucleare con tecnologia laser Lunedì 6 ottobre è partito il progetto HIPER (”High power laser for energy research”) per dimostrare la fattibilità della fusione nucleare mediante laser.... |
October 8th 2008
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Europe moves forward with laser-fusion plans Physicists and politicians from across Europe and beyond gathered at London's Science Museum on Monday to mark the beginning of a three-year "preparatory phase" of a new €1bn project known as the European High Power Laser Energy Research Facility (HiPER). So why do we need another fusion energy project? physicsworld.com looks for the answers.......... |
October 8th 2008
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Europe announces its HiPER laser fusion programme Europe is on track to build a huge laser fusion facility, a step on the road to fusion-based power stations in the middle of the century.......... |
October 7th 2008
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Europe follows fusion twin track An alternative fusion project has been kicked off in Europe that would seek abundant clean energy using a colossal laser the size of a football stadium.......... |
October 6th 2008
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Professor Mike Dunne discusses a £1bn project to harness the power of nuclear fusion on Radio 4's Today programme |
October 6th 2008
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Laser driven fusion to develop the path to carbon-free energy on a global scale European High Power Laser Energry Research Facility (HiPER) preparatory phase launched today. The quest for abundant safe clean energy is one of the most important challenges facing mankind and HiPER, a European research project led by the UK will harness nature's prime energy source - Fusion - to demonstrate a credible path to laser driven fusion as a commercial energy production source and offer a broad based science research facility......... |
October 6th 2008
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HiPER Launch Event Scientisits, politicians and press gathered together at the Science Museum in London on 6th October 2008 at a prestigious event to mark the beginning of the three-year Preparatory Phase of the HiPER project.......... |
October 5th 2008
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Nuclear fusion energy project could lead to limitless clean energy The power of the sun is to be recreated in a new £1 billion science project which aims to provide a clean and almost limitless source of energy.......... |
September 28th 2008
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A technology hotter than the sun A lab in Oxfordshire expects a fusion breakthrough soon. Looking beyond the energy needs of the next couple of decades, a new technology is beginning to appear on the horizon. Nuclear fusion promises the prospect of abundant carbon-free electricity - if only some epic technical hurdles can be overcome..... |
September 19th 2008
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HiPER Launch Event A prestigious launch event is planned to mark the start of the HiPER Preparatory Phase Project. To be held at the Science Museum in London on 6th October 2008, this will comprise a plenary session in the IMAX theatre (in the afternoon) and a celebration reception and dinner (in the evening)..... |
July 14th 2008
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RCUK Unveils 2008 Roadmap of Large Research Facilities the Research Councils UK (RCUK) today unveils its 2008 Large Facilities Roadmap, featuring a wide array of major research infrastructures such as light sources, research ships, state of the art laboratories and social data sets....... |
June 2008
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HiPER experimental access to LULI Call for Application for beam time at LULI on the 100TW and LULI2000 is now open for 2009. The closing date is 14th July 2008....... |
May 19th 2008
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Laser heats up the fusion future The world's most powerful laser has heated matter to 10 million Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun. |
May 19th 2008
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Hotter than the Sun....petawatt lasers heat solid density matter to 10 million degrees A milestone in high energy density science has been reached by an international team of physicists from Japan, the EU and the US. |
May 19th 2008
May 4th 2008
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Scientists to 'recreate sun' in hunt for energy - A nuclear fusion laboratory designed to recreate the temperatures and pressures inside the sun could be built in Oxfordshire under plans being drawn up by British scientists |
January 1st 2008
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When it's time to be HiPER aware - Fusion is not a new concept. For over 40 years, physicists have seen it as the Holy Grail of energy production. Despite the political obstacles currently facing nuclear power, there are other schemes that claim to hold more promise for fusion projects - like HiPER. |