ITER appears unstoppable despite recent setbacks

UNstoppable

In 2016, December 1st—already an occasion to highlight the importance of health and human rights as World AIDS Day—took on new significance as a landmark in one of the highest-profile health and human rights cases of the twenty-first century. This was the day that United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon finally issued an apology on behalf of the organization for its role in causing th...

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Recent activities of ITER gyrotron development in QST

QST is committed to the development of high power RF power sources (or gyrotrons) for plasma heating in fusion devices. Our main activity is the development of 170GHz gyrotron for electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive (EC H&CD) system of ITER project which requires 20 MW of power injection into fusion plasma. In ITER, 24 sets of 1 MW gyrotrons are planned to be installed of whi...

Recent contribution of JET to the ITER physics

Robust warming projections despite the recent hiatus

The recent slowdown or ‘hiatus’ in global average surface air temperature (SAT) rise1–4 has been used in some studies as evidence to argue that current models overestimate the climate response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases5,6. Other studies suggest instead that the recent hiatus merely reflects interdecadal variability superimposed on a long-term warming trend2–4,7–9. However...