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These days in Madrid have met the most outstanding representatives of the merger at an international conference to discuss the latest technological developments. At the symposium we have analyzed the energy problems of today’s consumer society and the development of fusion technology as a possible solution to the problem of energy dependence and its compatibility with the environmental balance.
The international forum that brought together the most relevant fusion plasma scientists in the world at the Madrid headquarters of the Fundacion Ramon Areces has been coordinated by CIEMAT and counted with the greatest representatives of the ITER project.
The symposium has addressed four areas: the problem of energy, nuclear fusion reactors, plasma and basic science, and plasmas and technology.
The symposium coordinator and researcher CIEMAT, Carlos Hidalgo, placed particular emphasis on showing the differences between the technology of fusion and fission, the latter entirely valid for the accident at the plant in Fukushima. Hidalgo also highlighted the characteristics of fusion energy as an energy source, since by definition is boundless and has no impact on the stock of greenhouse gases.
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That is what you are looking for Professor Raul Sanchez Fernandez de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), which has been awarded “Miguel Catalan” of the Community of Madrid scientists under forty years for his research in plasma physics and nuclear fusing, which can help to realize fusion energy, clean and inexhaustible.
Nuclear fusion occurs when two nuclei of light elements come together resulting in heavier elements, releasing a large amount of energy. To be able to produce this reaction requires a large input of energy to reach temperatures in the tens of millions of degrees to allow the nuclei are close enough to overcome their natural repulsion and condense in the plasma state. But once started, the process can sustain itself with minimal external energy supply, forming what is called a plasma ignition.
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POSCO, the Korean giant steel, was associated with the Korean government to develop technology for extracting lithium from seawater in order to make a new resource for industrial countries . A joint agreement has been signed for this purpose with the “Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs” and “Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources” (KIGAM).
POSCO and the Ministry will invest around 10 million euros until 2014 in the development of this project led by KIGAM and “Pohang Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology”. These 2 and institutes should establish a production plant for lithium carbonate. “POSCO hopes that this project will help write the history of resource development in Korea, as has been the case in Steel said its CEO Mr Chung Joon-Yang at the signing ceremony.
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The production of an abundant and clean energy is one of the grail of physics and modern technology. Among the candidates identified, nuclear fusion is among the favorites. After several decades of efforts, scientists are able to overcome one by one the obstacles they face in achieving control this form of energy. Two developments in this area have been announced in recent days.
The reactions of nuclear fusion
The nuclear fusion reactions are those that take place inside stars. In this process, nuclei of light atoms fuse to form heavier atoms. The reaction product, the same mass of fuel, 4 to 5 times more energy than fission reactions that are used in existing nuclear power plants. However, this nuclear energy is much more difficult to master.
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Tomography X-ray absorption is a nondestructive technique that allows reconstruction of images “sectional” objects in three dimensions. Today, a tomography system with micro-resolution allows access to previously inaccessible details of the micro-architecture of an internal three-dimensional object, and in a wide range of applications.
A multifunctional system of micro-tomography and micro-fluorescence X-ray was designed,
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