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Former EUROfusion CEO, Tony Donné, to Chair General Fusion’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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RICHMOND, British Columbia, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, General Fusion announced the appointment of Tony Donné as Chair of its Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC).

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  • RICHMOND, British Columbia, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, General Fusion announced the appointment of Tony Donné as Chair of its Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC).
  • Prior to EUROfusion, Tony was head of the Fusion Physics Division at DIFFER and Director of the ITER-Netherlands program.
  • “General Fusion’s deeply engaged Science and Technology Advisory Committee is one of our biggest assets,” said Greg Twinney, CEO, General Fusion.
  • General Fusion Science and Technology Advisory Committee members:
    Tony Donné, Ph.D., Chair of General Fusion’s STAC and the former CEO of EUROfusion.

Argonne and other institutions report first-ever atomic freeze frame of liquid water

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Friday, February 16, 2024
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Their study, recently published in the journal Science , built on the new science of attosecond physics, recognized with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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  • Their study, recently published in the journal Science , built on the new science of attosecond physics, recognized with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • The study sample was a stream of liquid water, chosen as a model molecule in this first-ever experiment.
  • This allowed them to take a fingerprint of the electronic response following ionization in liquid water, all before the bulkier hydrogen atoms have time to move.
  • The findings demonstrate that a longstanding measurement of the structure of liquid water has been misinterpreted.

General Atomics Brings Inertial Fusion Energy Expertise to Two National Research Hubs

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Friday, December 8, 2023
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San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.

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  • San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.
  • The STARFIRE and RISE hubs will each receive $16 million each over the next four years.
  • IFE is currently the only fusion approach to have achieved net energy gain in a laboratory, after achieving a 1.5x energy gain at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) in December 2022.
  • Other collaborators working on the RISE hub include CSU, Stanford & SLAC National Accelerator Lab, University of Illinois, Cornell University, Texas A&M, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Naval Research Lab (NRL), Marvel Fusion (MF), and Xcimer Energy.

Linux Foundation Energy Adds Five New Open Source Projects, Expanding its Energy Infrastructure Tech Stack for Battery Storage, Grid Resilience, EV Charging, and More

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO , Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Energy, the open source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to decarbonize our energy systems, is pleased to announce that five new open source technical projects have been accepted into LF Energy, which will provide the industry with new resources around battery storage, grid resilience, EV charging, transmission facility rating, and open source sustainability research. Additionally, LF Energy along with the Open Source Security Foundation have released a free whitepaper providing best practices for cybersecurity in energy infrastructure. This new research and significant new technologies will help drive LF Energy and its mission of creating a technology ecosystem to support rapid decarbonization forward.

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  • Additionally, LF Energy along with the Open Source Security Foundation have released a free whitepaper providing best practices for cybersecurity in energy infrastructure.
  • The LF Energy Technical Advisory Council has voted to accept five new projects into the foundation, bringing the total to 30.
  • These projects address a variety of technical requirements across power systems, including battery storage, grid resilience, EV charging, transmission facility rating, and open source sustainability research.
  • The addition of these projects further strengthens LF Energy's overall tech stack, and provides additional open source resources for energy stakeholders looking to transition to renewables.

Making 'movies' at the attosecond scale helps researchers better understand electrons − and could one day lead to super-fast electronics

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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However, electrons, which partly make up atoms and form the glue that bonds atoms in molecules together, don’t move around on the same time scale people do.

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  • However, electrons, which partly make up atoms and form the glue that bonds atoms in molecules together, don’t move around on the same time scale people do.
  • So, the tools that physicists like me use to capture their motion have to be really fast – attosecond-scale fast.

Attosecond pulses

    • Capturing attosecond-scale motion requires an attosecond strobe.
    • The 2023 Nobel laureates in physics made seminal contributions to the generation of such attosecond laser strobes, which are very short pulses generated using a powerful laser.
    • This process of recollision results in creation of attosecond bursts of laser light.

Attosecond movies

    • So how do physicists use these ultrashort pulses to make movies of electrons at the attosecond scale?
    • Attosecond movies of electrons use a similar idea.
    • The different “scenes” are then stitched together to make the attosecond movies of electrons.
    • These movies help provide fundamental insight, with help from sophisticated theoretical models, into attosecond electronic behavior.

Future applications

    • Curiosity-driven research can lead to unimaginable applications in the future, and attosecond science is likely no different.
    • Understanding and controlling the behavior of electrons on the attosecond scale could enable researchers to use lasers to control chemical reactions that they can’t by other means.
    • The short wavelength of attosecond pulses, which is typically in the extreme-ultraviolet, or EUV, regime, may see applications in EUV lithography in the semiconductor industry.
    • With numerous research groups actively working on exciting problems in attosecond science, and with 2023’s Nobel Prize in physics recognizing its importance, attosecond science has a long and bright future.

PsiQuantum Partners With U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to Access State-of-the-Art, High-Powered Cryogenic Cooling Capabilities for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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The quantum computers in service today are designated as Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) systems with at most a few hundred physical qubits.

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  • The quantum computers in service today are designated as Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) systems with at most a few hundred physical qubits.
  • While all mainstream quantum computing efforts require cryogenic cooling, in PsiQuantum’s approach, these cooling requirements are relaxed relative to other prevailing technologies.
  • Photonic quantum computing architectures therefore do not require dilution refrigerators – the “chandelier” often associated with quantum computing.
  • Fariba Danesh, Chief Operating Officer at PsiQuantum, said:
    “We are extremely excited to be entering this partnership with DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Stephen K. Streiffer Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Thursday, July 27, 2023
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UT-Battelle, LLC, has appointed Stephen K. Streiffer to be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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  • UT-Battelle, LLC, has appointed Stephen K. Streiffer to be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
  • He currently serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October.
  • He previously spent 24 years in research and leadership positions at Argonne National Laboratory, concluding his tenure as the lab’s deputy director for science and technology.
  • “I look forward to getting to work at Oak Ridge,” Streiffer said.

New foundry to accelerate quantum information research at Argonne National Laboratory

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Powerful quantum computers, ultraprecise quantum sensors, and tamperproof quantum communication networks could revolutionize areas as varied as medicine, energy and finance.

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  • Powerful quantum computers, ultraprecise quantum sensors, and tamperproof quantum communication networks could revolutionize areas as varied as medicine, energy and finance.
  • The U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has built the Argonne Quantum Foundry to accelerate advances in quantum information science.
  • The foundry is a national source of materials and data for quantum research that is unique in the Midwest.
  • The creation of the Argonne Quantum Foundry was led by Q-NEXT, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center hosted at Argonne.

Spectra Logic Deploys 18-Frame Tape Library with LTO-9 Tape Drives to Preserve Vital Data at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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BOULDER, Colorado, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spectra Logic , a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA.

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  • BOULDER, Colorado, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spectra Logic , a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA.
  • Operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, SLAC pushes the frontiers of knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind.
  • In addition to LTO tape technology, the Spectra TFinity is also compatible with IBM’s TS11X0 enterprise tape technology and Oracle’s T10000x enterprise tape technology, enabling all three tape formats in the same library.
  • “We are very excited about the deployment of the large Spectra Logic TFinity ExaScale Tape Library at SLAC,” said Betsy Doughty , Spectra Logic vice president of corporate marketing.

Quanterix Expands Laboratory Developed Test Menu with Launch of Neurofilament Light Chain Test

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Monday, January 9, 2023
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NfL is a well-studied biomarker for neuro-axonal injury with wide applicability to different neurological disorders.

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  • NfL is a well-studied biomarker for neuro-axonal injury with wide applicability to different neurological disorders.
  • Any disorder or injuring force resulting in neuronal damage can lead to the release of NfL into the interstitial fluid and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
  • A fraction of these proteins diffuses into the blood, where concentrations are typically 50- to 100-fold lower than in CSF and difficult to measure with conventional immunoassay technologies.
  • “Assessment and monitoring of brain health is incredibly difficult and typically performed in limited fashion by surgery or imaging.