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Displaying all 6 Episode of Science Night with the tag “tokamak”.
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Eclipses, Amphibians, and the Future of Fusion
April 10th, 2024 | Season 3 | 35 mins 58 secs
amphibians, astronomy, biology, eclipse, engineering, evolution, fusion, fusion energy, kstar, mammals, nuclear engineering, nuclear fusion, pppl, scicomm, science, solar eclipse, stellerator, tokamak
Fusion energy week is happening during the first week of May! To get ready, Dr. Diem is talking about a new design that may improve the Stellarator design and a new record for the KSTAR. We're also talking about our experience during the 2024 solar eclipse, and we have a strange new milk that will be sure to haunt your dreams.
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Alien Lights or Misinformation Fights?
January 17th, 2024 | Season 3 | 30 mins 36 secs
astronomy, dart, esa, exoplanets, fusion, hera mission, iter, jwst, kstar, nasa, nuclear fusion, proxima b, proxima centauri, scicomm, science, tokamak
This week we're attempting to answer the age-old question...if there is a possibility for a sensational story involving aliens, will social media just run with it? We're also checking our DARTs, and hearing about the newly upgraded KSTAR tokamak from our favorite fusioneer.
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Sports in the Climate Era
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 37 secs
anthropology, archaeology, baseball, bronze age, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, fifa, football, fusion energy, global warming, horses, indigenous, native american, nuclear fusion, pegasus iii, psychedelics, scicomm, science, soccer, sports, tokamak
Coming up to bat, we have four scicomm stories from the news. First, we talk about psychedelic substance use in the Bronze Age. Next, we're re-examining the origin of horses in indigenous communities in North America. To round out the first half, we have our favorite new segment where Dr. Diem clears up the fusion confusion. In the second half, we're looking at sports in the climate era, where Jason laments the death of baseball, James relives a Red October to remember, and Steffi thinks about life in the white tent.
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Stellar Scicomm
April 5th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 52 secs
british parliament, capitol hill, carbon capture, climate change, climate crisis, fusion energy, scicomm, science, science advocacy, science policy, stellerator, tokamak, us government
This week we're talking about two of our favorite things, science advocacy, and fusion energy. First, James, Jason, and Steffi talk about their recent trip to D.C. Next, we talk about science advocacy across the pond. In the second half, we talk about the recent news about carbon capture, and a hot new fusion energy company is building a stellarator.
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A Festival of Fusion: The 2022 Year in Review
February 8th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 59 secs
arc, climate change, climate crisis, east, fusion, fusion energy, iter, jet, nuclear fusion, physics, scicomm, science, sparc, step, tokamak
We're back with another look back at the year in fusion energy. Join us as our friendly fusioneer Steffi Diem and special guest Arturo Dominguez talk about the highlights and high temps from an exciting year.
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A Festival of Fusion
January 28th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 9 mins
arc, climate change, climate crisis, east, fusion, fusion energy, nuclear fusion, physics, scicomm, science, sparc, step, tokamak
2021 was a year with loads of advancement in the field of fusion energy. To mark the achievements from this incredible year, Dr. Arturo Dominguez from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is joining Steffi and James for a special episode of the podcast. We cover the major landmarks and talk about what this could mean for the future of fusion energy. Also, Steffi talks to Arturo about his work and how he engages the public to teach them more about fusion.