by Nathan Daniels | Feb 20, 2014 | Monitor
What We Are Reading: Kiev’s Brief Truce Shatters in Bursts of Gunfire Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgins / New York Times Ukraine’s descent into a spiral of violence accelerated on Thursday as protesters and riot police officers used firearms in a clash as opposition...
by Marcin Michniowski | Nov 19, 2013 | Monitor
Endless Afghanistan? Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube / NBC News US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely. Fusion reactor achieves tenfold increase in plasma confinement time Matthew Francis / Ars Technica Work is...
by Farhad Mirzadeh | Oct 30, 2013 | Monitor
Many companies are in a race to research technological breakthroughs in fusion energy, according to an article by Motherboard titled “The Nuclear Fusion Arms Race Is Underway:” In other words, scientists today are much closer to creating fusion energy than...
by Farhad Mirzadeh | Sep 17, 2013 | Monitor
Cheap and sustainable energy are one of the many tangible benefits that fusion energy has to offer. But there are also unquantifiable benefits to the research between countries on fusion energy that can foster cooperation and good relations. Science diplomacy, the...
by Andrew Holland | Aug 22, 2013 | Monitor
Steven Cowley, the Chief Executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, home to the UK’s JET tokamak. Cowley said earlier this month in Dublin that nuclear fusion will be a viable energy source. He thinks the...
