The new experimental campaign on the stellarator has started The current experimental cycle has been launched on the world’s largest stellarator. During the next four month Wendelstein 7-X will produce longer and higher energy plasma discharges then before, thanks to the numerous upgrades and the experiences from the last two years. Contrary to the 30s long plasma discharges archived during the last campaign, now they […]
Unique diagnostic development at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics
The atomic beam probe is a unique extension of the beam emission spectroscopy (BES) diagnostic, being developed at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Hungary). You can read about the BES diagnostic and the research activity of the BES group in more details on the Wigner RCP website. Just as a reminder: the BES is a special tool to diagnose plasma edge density. The working […]
Investigators of the star factory
Angela Merkel started the first experiments over one and a half year ago, which were continued in this September after a longer shutdown and development period at Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). The fusion research groups at the Plasma Physics Department of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS Winger RCP) did not stand idle during this one-year-long period of reconstruction. […]
Wigner RCP won the right to host the World’s biggest fusion technology conference
The Wigner Research Centre for Physics’s team led by Dr. Gábor Veres, the Head of Plasma Physics Department of the Wigner RCP won the right to host the next ISFNT (International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology) conference between 23 and 27 of September, 2019 in Budapest. There has never been a fusion technology conference in Hungary before. The last conference in plasma physics was 17 years ago […]
Video camera system improvements for Wendelstein 7-X
It has been over a year and a half since the worlds biggest and most complex fusion experimental device, Wendelstein 7-X has started in Greifswald, Germany. The video diagnostics system of the Hungarian team provided the first images of the first plasma discharges that came into the World’s press. First helium plasma captured by the Hungarian camera system Since then, the Hungarian team has been […]
Fusion, Sziget festival, 2017
In the last decade it became a traditon that researchers and engineers of the Wigner Physics Research Center left the keyboards, screwdrivers behind, leaving the comfort of labs and go the Sziget festival to tell young people from all over the world about nuclear fusion. At the festival, the Hungarian Nuclear Society’s Youth for Nuclear Energy and Fusion Group jointly promoted the presence and future […]
ITER cable testing measurements at Wigner RCP
„I can also say that for example a long distance runner is running long distances because he or she is a long distance runner, we are high-tech engineers so we are doing high-tech engineering. This is so simple.” Said Gábor Veres, the Head of Plasma Physics Department, Wigner RCP. He is very proud of our engineers who are working on the World’s largest fusion experiment […]
Internship at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics
From Germany to the Wigner for an internship? Why not? Watch the interview with Jan-Henrik Herrig where he tellswhat is he doing durings his internship and how does he feel like at Wigner Research Centre for Physics.
Fusion at BME Children’s University
(Written by Dr. Gergő Pokol and Mátyás Aradi) Children’s University summer camp was organized at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) from 26 June till 7 July 2017, which aims to promote engineering and natural sciences among elementary school children. The young students listened to lectures and participated at seminars where they could experience the life of a researcher. At the end of […]
Fusion and FINA World Championships
Did you know that the amount of energy which can be extracted with fusion from the water in a 50 meter long Olympic size pool like Duna Aréna‘s could serve the energy needs of a Budapest size city for more than 4 years? And the fact that more than half of the world’s population are building the first power plant size fusion experimental reactor? No? […]