A Spectroscopy workshop kindly funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in collaboration with Imperial College London. Hosted by Ben (PhD student) and Leila (undergraduate) at Imperial College We were very fortunate that Rooks Heath Chemistry and Physics A level students were able to take part in this workshop last December. Spectroscopy is a […]

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Tour of JET and MAST JET With Dr David Keeling http://www.efda.org/jet/ http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/JET.aspx http://www.efda.org/multimedia/jet-video-gallery/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power The Joint European Torus (JET), located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, is the world’s largest and most powerful tokamak and the focal point of the European fusion research programme. Designed to study fusion in conditions approaching those needed for a […]

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http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/ http://www.efda.org/ http://www.efda.org/fusion/classroom/ http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/euratom/index_en.cfm Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is the UK’s national laboratory for fusion research. CCFE (formerly known as UKAEA Culham) is based at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, and is owned and operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/CCFE.aspx Fusion – Energy for the future? Dr Anthony J. Webster, […]

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