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  • “I feel like I’m betraying Italy:” Exchange Student Delightfully Surprised by Olive Garden

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    Enough memes have been made about terribly cooked spaghetti that would make any Italian person cringe. But this American host mom decided to ramp up the ante and bring her Italian exchange student to The Olive Garden.

    TikTok user alessandro.salimei posted a clip that details his experience at The Olive Garden. For those unaware, Olive Garden serves American-Italian fusion food—basically, what many Italians would consider a nightmare to consume. Ready-made breadsticks, heavy cream-based Alfredo, fried ravioli—this is definitely not Italian. But that’s exactly what Alessandro was confronted with when he dined with his host mom at Olive Garden.

    Alessandro was skeptical about the alfredo as a breadstick dip. But when he took a bite, he was pleasantly surprised to find out that the combination worked. He proceeded with the ravioli and was initially mortified to see it fried—but thought the experimental dish was “interesting” after a taste.

    The real kicker was when he tried the calamari, finally admitting that the dishes were “good.” After a satisfying cheese pull with the mozzarella, he confessed, “This is not fair. I feel like I’m betraying Italy.”

    In his perspective, Olive Garden broke the rules when it comes to Italian cooking. So how could something so sinful be so good?

    Food doesn’t have to be authentic to be delicious

    One user on X writes, “The trick to enjoying Olive Garden is to remind oneself that it is not really Italian. It is just… The Olive Garden.”

    Italian exchange student tries The Olive Garden.
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    A TikTok user comments on the original video, “Olive Garden is like Taco Bell. It’s not authentic at all, but it’s sooooo good.”

    Everyone is interested in eating the most authentic versions of every cuisine—but food doesn’t have to be faithful to tradition for it to be delicious. Panda Express can’t be called authentic to Yangzhou’s flavor profiles, but it’s still what people order for dinner after a long and busy day at work.

    Fusion cuisine isn’t degeneracy—it’s just another way to appreciate, enjoy, and rediscover dishes people have long fallen in love with.

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    Vanessa Esguerra (She/They) has been a Contributing Writer for The Mary Sue since 2023. She speaks three languages but still manages to get lost in the subways of Tokyo with her clunky Japanese. Fueled by iced coffee brewed from local cafés in Metro Manila, she also regularly covers every possible topic under the sun while queuing for her next match in League of Legends.

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  • Google DeepMind agrees to sweeping research collaboration with the U.K. government | Fortune

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    AI lab GoogleDeepMind announced a major new partnership with the U.K. government Wednesday, pledging to accelerate breakthroughs in materials science and clean energy, including nuclear fusion, as well as conducting joint research on the societal impacts of AI and on ways to make AI decision-making more interpretable and safer.

    As part of the partnership, Google DeepMind said it would open its first automated research laboratory in the U.K. in 2026. That lab will focus on discovering advanced materials including superconductors that can carry electricity with zero resistance. The facility will be fully integrated with Google’s Gemini AI models. Gemini will serve as a kind of scientific brain for the lab, which will also use robotics to synthesize and characterize hundreds of materials per day, significantly accelerating the timeline for transformative discoveries.

    The company will also work with the U.K. government and other U.K.-based scientists on trying to make breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, potentially paving the way for cheaper, cleaner energy. Fusion reactions should produce abundant power while producing little to no nuclear waste, but such reactions have proved to be very difficult to sustain or scale up.

    Additionally, Google DeepMind is expanding its research alliance with the government-run U.K. AI Security Institute to explore methods for discovering how large language models and other complex neural network-based AI models arrive at decisions. The partnership will also involve joint research into the societal impacts of AI, such as the effect AI deployment is likely to have on the labor market and the impact increased use of AI chatbots may have on mental health.

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement that the partnership would “make sure we harness developments in AI for public good so that everyone feels the benefits.”

    “That means using AI to tackle everyday challenges like cutting energy bills thanks to cheaper, greener energy and making our public services more efficient so that taxpayers’ money is spent on what matters most to people,” Starmer said.

    Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis said in a statement that AI has “incredible potential to drive a new era of scientific discovery and improve everyday life.”

    As part of the partnership, British scientists will receive priority access to Google DeepMind’s advanced AI tools, including AlphaGenome for DNA sequencing; AlphaEvolve for designing algorithms; DeepMind’s WeatherNext weather forecasting models; and its new AI co-scientist, a multi-agent system that acts as a virtual research collaborator.

    DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and is still headquartered there; it was acquired by Google in 2014.

    Gemini’s U.K. footprint expands

    The collaboration also includes potential development of AI systems for education and government services. Google DeepMind will explore creating a version of Gemini tailored to England’s national curriculum to help teachers reduce administrative workloads. A pilot program in Northern Ireland showed that Gemini helped save teachers an average of 10 hours per week, according to the U.K. government.

    For public services, the U.K. government’s AI Incubator team is trialing Extract, a Gemini-powered tool that converts old planning documents into digital data in 40 seconds, compared to the current two-hour process.

    The expanded research partnership with the U.K. AI Security Institute will focus on three areas, the government and DeepMind said: developing techniques to monitor AI systems’ so-called “chain of thought”—the reasoning steps an AI model takes to arrive at an answer; studying the social and emotional impacts of AI systems; and exploring how AI will affect employment.

    U.K. AISI currently tests the safety of frontier AI models, including those from Google DeepMind and a number of other AI labs, under voluntary agreements. But the new research collaboration could potentially raise concerns about whether the U.K. AISI will remain objective in its testing of its now-partner’s models.

    In response to a question on this from Fortune, William Isaac, principal scientist and director of responsibility at Google DeepMind, did not directly address the issue of how the partnership might affect the U.K. AISI’s objectivity. But he said the new research agreement puts in place “a separate kind of relationship from other points of interaction.” He also said the new partnership was focused on “question on the horizon” rather than present models, and that the researchers would publish the results of their work for anyone to review.

    Isaac said there is no financial or commercial exchange as part of the research partnership, with both sides contributing people and research resources.

    “We’re excited to announce that we’re going to be deepening our partnership with the U.K. AISI to really focus on exploring, really the frontier research questions that we believe are going to be important for ensuring that we have safe and responsible development,” he said.

    He said the partnership will produce publicly accessible research focused on foundational questions—such as how AI impacts jobs or how talking to chatbots effects mental health—rather than policy-specific recommendations, though the findings could influence how businesses and policymakers think about AI and how to regulate it.

    “We want the research to be meaningful and provide insights,” Isaac said.

    Isaac described the U.K. AISI as “the crown jewel of all of the safety institutes” globally and said deepening the partnership “sends a really strong signal” about the importance of engaging responsibly as AI systems become more widely adopted.

    The partnership also includes expanded collaboration on AI-enhanced approaches to cybersecurity. This will include the U.K. government exploring the sue of tools like Big Sleep, an AI agent developed by Google that autonomously hunts for previously unknown “Zero Day” cybersecurity exploits, and CodeMender, another AI agent that can search for and then automatically patch security vulnerabilities in open source software.

    British Technology Secretary Liz Kendall is visiting San Francisco this week to further the U.K.-U.S. Tech Prosperity Deal, which was agreed to during U.S. President Trump’s state visit to the U.K. in September. In November alone, the British government said the pact helped secure more than $32.4 billion of private investment committed to the U.K tech sector.

    The Google-U.K. partnership builds on a £5 billion ($6.7 billion) investment commitment from Google made earlier this year to support U.K. AI infrastructure and research, and to help modernize government IT systems.

    The British government also said collaboration supports its AI Opportunities Action Plan and its £137 million AI for Science Strategy, which aims to position the UK as a global leader in AI-driven research.

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  • It’s not a ‘scam’ that NYC mayor candidates are listed twice

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    Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, criticized the legitimacy of New York City’s election system as voters prepared to head to the polls.

    Musk shared a photograph of New York City’s ballot on Nov. 4, Election Day. “The New York City ballot form is a scam! No ID is required. Other mayoral candidates appear twice. (Andrew) Cuomo’s name is last in bottom right,” wrote Musk, who supports Cuomo over Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Other X users made similar points in other posts.

    New York doesn’t require voters to present IDs at their polling place on Election Day, beyond first-time voters who did not present ID at the time they registered. For all other voters, poll workers confirm identity by matching their signature to official records. People are required to present ID when they register to vote.

    As for Cuomo’s ballot placement, the former New York governor lost the Democratic primary and created his own independent party to allow him to run in the general election. According to election rules, that meant the placement for Cuomo and his new party was further down the ballot than longer-established parties. 

    What about candidates appearing twice? There’s nothing fishy about that: It’s part of New York’s long tradition of fusion voting, in which multiple parties can nominate the same candidate. 

    Having a candidate appear on the ballot twice is “not a scam at all,” said Jerry H. Goldfeder, senior counsel at the law firm Cozen O’Connor. “New York has had fusion voting for many, many years.”

    How does fusion voting work?

    If a candidate receives more than one party nomination, voters must choose not only the candidate they prefer but also the party they want those votes to count for.

    In the 2025 mayoral election, both Mamdani and one of his opponents, Sliwa, secured nominations of two parties, so they are listed twice on the ballot. 

    Mamdani won nominations from the Democratic Party and the left-wing Working Families Party. (On Election Day, Mamdani said he voted for himself on the Working Families Party line.)

    Sliwa won the nomination of the Republican Party and a party he created called the Protect Animals Party. (Sliwa has attracted notice for having 16 cats in his 320-square-foot studio apartment, and he’s made animal welfare a key campaign issue.)

    Any votes for a candidate, regardless of the party line the vote is cast under, counts toward that candidate’s total. “Although candidates may appear on more than one party’s line, voters can only vote for them once,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a Rutgers University public policy professor.

    So why would voters support a prominent candidate on a minor-party line?

    They might want to send a message about the importance of that party’s positions. They also might want to ensure that the smaller party continues to win enough votes to secure a ballot spot in future elections.

    By allowing cross-party alliances, a fusion system allows smaller parties to be more than just a “wasted vote” or a self-defeating “spoiler,” said Dan Cantor, who co-founded the Working Families Party and now heads the Center for Ballot Freedom, which supports fusion voting. 

    “It allows voters the ability to vote their values and send a message to the candidate that he or she should be attentive to the minor party’s concerns,” Cantor said.

    Fusion voting’s long history 

    Fusion voting dates to the 19th century, but only New York and Connecticut allow the practice today. 

    Historically, cross-nominations were used to elevate issues including the abolition of slavery and enhanced political representation into the mainstream, wrote three legal experts for the American Bar Association in 2024. 

    In the close 1960 presidential election, New York’s 45 electoral votes were crucial. While Richard Nixon received more Republican votes than John F. Kennedy received Democratic votes, “Kennedy’s 6% support on the Liberal Party line delivered him the state and the White House,” the authors wrote. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan also won New York by fusing with minor parties.

    Tabatha Abu El-Haj, one of the authors of the American Bar Association paper, said there’s an irony in Musk’s criticism: “Back when Elon Musk threw out the notion of forming a third-party, many commentators noted the only way that party could actually influence the direction of the Republican Party would be if it operated as a fusion party.”

    Our ruling

    Musk wrote, “The New York City ballot form is a scam” because “mayoral candidates appear twice.”

    Mamdani and Sliwa are on the mayoral ballot twice because two separate parties made them their nominees. This is how fusion voting works, and how it has operated in New York since the nineteenth century.

    We rate the statement False.

    PolitiFact New York Writer Jill Terreri Ramos contributed to this report.

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  • Bill Gates Is Betting on Nuclear Fission and Fusion to Solve the Climate Crisis

    Bill Gates Is Betting on Nuclear Fission and Fusion to Solve the Climate Crisis

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    The Microsoft founder is ramping up his investments in nuclear power. Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images

    Despite the decades-long efforts of scientists around the world, the commercialization of nuclear fusion technology has not yet been achieved on Earth. However, Bill Gates, who has invested significantly in both nuclear fission and fusion startups, is betting on cutting-edge tech to provide a promising path toward green energy. “I’m a big believer that nuclear energy can help us solve the climate problem,” the Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder told The Verge in a wide-ranging interview published today (Sept. 5).

    Gates has long been outspoken about his adventurous approach to climate technology. Such sentiments have become more pertinent in recent years as concerns about Big Tech’s energy use proliferate. The energy consumption of data centers that power A.I. computing, for example, is expected to potentially double to take up 9 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2030, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.

    According to Gates, A.I. data centers will actually generate a less than 10 percent increase in energy use. Even so, Big Tech is exploring clean energy sources and will pioneer fission and fusion power “to help bootstrap that green energy generation,” he said. Microsoft, for example, last year signed a power purchase agreement with Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion company backed by Sam Altman, to buy electricity from the startup in 2028.

    Lauded for its potential to provide mass amounts of affordable and clean energy, nuclear fusion is the same process that powers the sun and stars. It occurs when two light atoms combine to form a heavier one while releasing energy, a reaction that must take place in extremely high temperatures of around 10 million degrees Celsius, according to the International Atomic Energy.

    Although the process has yet to be commercially harnessed, nuclear fusion technology has received an outburst of financial support in recent years. Of $7.1 billion in total funding since 1992, the sector received $900 million last year, according to a recent report from the Fusion Industry Association, which noted that 89 percent of private fusion companies believe the technology will be operational by the end of the 2030s.

    The report identified 45 companies worldwide working to commercialize nuclear fusion. Of those startups, five are backed by Gates via Breakthrough Energy Ventures, his climate-focused investment fund. The billionaire has invested in the likes of Zap Energy, which is hoping to build a fusion power plant in the next few years, and Type One Energy, which uses magnets to help fuse atoms. Both Gates and Amazon (AMZN)’s Jeff Bezos have supported Commonwealth Fusion Systems, another startup aiming to make the commercialization of fusion power a possibility in the near future.

    Despite skepticism over whether nuclear fusion—which doesn’t emit greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide—will actually come to fruition in the next few years or decades, Gates said he remains optimistic. “Although their timeframes are further out, I think the role of fusion over time will be very, very critical,” he told The Verge.

    The billionaire has also invested in modern forms of nuclear fission energy, which produces energy when atoms are split apart. Gates is attempting to develop a cheaper form of fission via $1 billion worth of investments into TerraPower, a startup that recently broke ground on a nuclear power plant site in Kemmerer, Wyo. and aims to develop more affordable and safer forms of fission by using water to cool reactors instead of sodium. “People are appropriately skeptical because it’s never been done,” Gates told The Verge. “But they’ll get to see as we build that plant, and if so, it can make a contribution.”

    Gates isn’t alone in his embrace of all things nuclear. Bezos, too, has become a prominent investor in fusion technology, having invested in Canadian startup General Fusion’s dreams of developing a pilot plant. OpenAI’s Altman has poured capital and time into the field as well, backing and chairing both Helion Energy and the nuclear energy startup Oklo.

    Bill Gates Is Betting on Nuclear Fission and Fusion to Solve the Climate Crisis

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  • Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion | TechCrunch

    Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion | TechCrunch

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    Venture capitalists’ appetite for fusion startups has been up and down in the last few years. For instance, the Fusion Industry Association found that while nuclear fusion companies had attracted over $6 billion in investment in 2023, $1.4 billion more than in 2022, the 27% growth proved slower than in 2022, as investors battled external fears such as inflation.

    However, numbers don’t tell the full story: Venture interest in the field has remained strong as startups begin to find novel ways to potentially capture the power of the sun to produce safe, limitless energy.

    The field reached a significant milestone in 2022 when the Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility managed to bring about a fusion reaction that produced more power than was required to spark a fuel pellet. And then in August last year, the team confirmed that their first test wasn’t just good fortune. The road to true fusion power remains long, but the kicker is that it’s no longer theoretical.

    The latest company looking to make a name for itself in the space is Proxima Fusion, the first spin-out from the lauded Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7 million) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants.

    The company bases its technology on “quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators” with high-temperature superconductors. In plain English, a stellarator is a doughnut-shaped ring of precisely positioned magnets that can contain the plasma from which fusion energy is born. However, stellarators are  extremely hard to make, as they position the magnets in rather odd shapes, and require extremely precise engineering.

    Proxima Fusion claims it came up with a way to address these issues using both engineering solutions and advanced computing in 2022, and as a spin-out, the company has now built on research from the Max Planck IPP, which built the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) experiment, the world’s largest stellarator.

    The new approach to fusion is only possible because of the ability to use AI to simulate the behavior of the plasma, thus bringing the prospect of viable nuclear fusion nearer, Dr. Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, told TechCrunch over a call.

    German startup Marvel Fusion, which has been funded by German VC Earlybird, uses laser containment to spark the reaction, and when I asked Sciortino why Proxima uses stellarators, he said, “With lasers, you take a small pellet and blast heat at it with many very powerful lasers. That releases energy via fusion, but you’re compressing something and letting it explode. Whereas what we are working on is that actual confinement. So it’s not an explosion, but in a steady state; it’s continuous in operation.”

    Sciortino, who completed his PhD at MIT on tokamak nuclear projects, said Proxima will leverage what has been learned from the W7-X device, which has had more than €1 billion in public investment. He added the projected timeline to get to fusion energy is by the mid-2030s. “We’re looking at, give or take, 15 years. Building an intermediate device in Munich most likely by 2031 is our objective. If we manage to get to that then the middle of the 2030s is possible.”

    The startup’s investors are equally convinced.

    Ian Hogarth, a partner at one of Proxima’s investors, Plural, told me, “There are two big things that I think are really compelling about what Proxima are doing. First, their stellarator has benefited from two big, big trends in high-temperature superconductors and progress in computer-aided simulation of complex, multi-physics systems. And secondly, the world’s most advanced stellarator in the whole world is in North Germany.”

    He thinks that Proxima being the first spin-out from that ambitious government project will give it the edge it needs to succeed: “It’s a classic example of the ‘entrepreneurial state,’ where a startup can build on top of this incredible public investment.”

    That said, Proxima is not the only player in the race for fusion. Helion Energy raised a $500 million Series E two years ago, led by tech entrepreneur and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for instance. And there are at least 43 other companies developing nuclear fusion technologies.

    Proxima’s seed round was led by Redalpine, with participation from the Bavarian government-backed Bayern Kapital, German government-backed DeepTech & Climate Fonds and the Max Planck Foundation. Plural and existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Wilbe, UVC Partners and the Tomorrow Fund of Visionaries Club also participated in the round.

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  • Falafel taco is a delicious union of Middle East and Mexican flavors

    Falafel taco is a delicious union of Middle East and Mexican flavors

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    SILVERLAKE, Calif. — MidEast Tacos started as a pop-up restaurant near the USC campus, fusing two prominent Los Angeles cuisines, Mexican and Middle Eastern. Its popularity spurred the owners to establish a brick and mortar location.

    “I wanted to do something different, something I grew up with in Los Angeles as an Armenian kid, and Mexican food and Mexican culture had a big inspiration in my personal life,” said MidEast Taco chef and co-founder Armen Martirosyan.

    The fusion concept offers steak and chicken kebab tacos and burritos alongside their signature falafel tacos.

    “It’s really great. The falafel, I would have eaten that just by itself, but it was great in the taco with all the combination of ingredients,” said Tal Vigderson a guest from neighboring Los Feliz.

    For more information, go to: https://mideasttacos.com/

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  • Salvaje Is Bringing Bombastic Japanese Fusion to Chicago

    Salvaje Is Bringing Bombastic Japanese Fusion to Chicago

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    Signs for Salvaje, a chain of clubby and upscale Japanese restaurants that originated in Panama, have been up in Fulton Market for more than a year. But in late February, construction finally began as workers began transforming the former Ballast Point Brewpub into a louder and brasher venue that would take better advantage of the rooftop deck.

    The brewpub officially closed in May 2021 vacating a space that links Fulton Market with Randolph Restaurant Row at 212 N. Green Street. Salvaje World Restaurant Chief Project Officer Martina Maione says they’re hoping for an early June opening. They will occupy three levels, including the basement. Expect percussionists and live music to give diners a thrill. “Salvaje” uses a motto, “the wild side of Japanese cuisine.” They’ll have a sophisticated sound and light display to punctuate that point. This is dinner and a show.

    “The DJ is an important element for Salvaje here because our concept is not like a traditional restaurant,” Maione says. “At Salvaje, the entertainment is very important, we aim to deliver a 360-degree experience.”

    What was once a mostly industrial space, indicative of a typical brewery, will be remodeled to match Salvaje’s spirit. The chain has locations in Bógata, Barcelona, Dubai (the chain’s largest), and Ibiza. The only U.S. location opened in 2021 in Miami. Expect a whimsical space decorated with animal prints, murals, and fun lamps, and a signature element: a rhino. Maino says a rhino’s strength made it the ideal choice for a logo. Visitors will see the rhino pop up throughout the space. Maione says the target customer base ranges between 30 to 50.

    There’s a sushi bar, wok-fried noodles, and a robata grill. Maione mentions truffle mushroom dumplings. The presentations are over the top with some sort of interactive element. The menu is pretty consistent across locations all over the world.

    “The cuisine is Japanese fusion — the food is incredible,” Maione says. “In general, you are going to find people that come back exclusively for the food. I have some friends that are not for a place with [loud] music. You know, they’re more traditional. But they love Salvaje, they love the food of Salvaje.”

    Dallas and Atlanta locations are also planned, as Maione says they’ll eventually move the Miami restaurant to a larger space.

    In Chicago, Salvaje will also make better use of the rooftop space with a bar outside with all the sake and other cocktails. Maione promises a festive atmosphere. Come back for updates as work continues.

    Salvaje, 212 N. Green Street, planned for an early June opening.

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  • Some mosquitoes like it hot

    Some mosquitoes like it hot

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    Newswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

    This is bad news in a world where vector-borne diseases are an increasingly global health concern. Most models that scientists use to estimate vector-borne disease risk currently assume that mosquito heat tolerances do not vary. As a result, these models may underestimate mosquitoes’ ability to spread diseases in a warming world.

    Researchers led by Katie M. Westby, a senior scientist at Tyson Research Center, Washington University’s environmental field station, conducted a new study that measured the critical thermal maximum (CTmax), an organism’s upper thermal tolerance limit, of eight populations of the globally invasive tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. The tiger mosquito is a known vector for many viruses including West Nile, chikungunya and dengue.

    “We found significant differences across populations for both adults and larvae, and these differences were more pronounced for adults,” Westby said. The new study is published Jan. 8 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

    Westby’s team sampled mosquitoes from eight different populations spanning four climate zones across the eastern United States, including mosquitoes from locations in New Orleans; St. Augustine, Fla.; Huntsville, Ala.; Stillwater, Okla.; St. Louis; Urbana, Ill.; College Park, Md.; and Allegheny County, Pa.

    The scientists collected eggs in the wild and raised larvae from the different geographic locations to adult stages in the lab, tending the mosquito populations separately as they continued to breed and grow. The scientists then used adults and larvae from subsequent generations of these captive-raised mosquitoes in trials to determine CTmax values, ramping up air and water temperatures at a rate of 1 degree Celsius per minute using established research protocols.

    The team then tested the relationship between climatic variables measured near each population source and the CTmax of adults and larvae. The scientists found significant differences among the mosquito populations.

    The differences did not appear to follow a simple latitudinal or temperature-dependent pattern, but there were some important trends. Mosquito populations from locations with higher precipitation had higher CTmax values. Overall, the results reveal that mean and maximum seasonal temperatures, relative humidity and annual precipitation may all be important climatic factors in determining CTmax.

    “Larvae had significantly higher thermal limits than adults, and this likely results from different selection pressures for terrestrial adults and aquatic larvae,” said Benjamin Orlinick, first author of the paper and a former undergraduate research fellow at Tyson Research Center. “It appears that adult Ae. albopictus are experiencing temperatures closer to their CTmax than larvae, possibly explaining why there are more differences among adult populations.”

    “The overall trend is for increased heat tolerance with increasing precipitation,” Westby said. “It could be that wetter climates allow mosquitoes to endure hotter temperatures due to decreases in desiccation, as humidity and temperature are known to interact and influence mosquito survival.”

    Little is known about how different vector populations, like those of this kind of mosquito, are adapted to their local climate, nor the potential for vectors to adapt to a rapidly changing climate. This study is one of the few to consider the upper limits of survivability in high temperatures — akin to heat waves — as opposed to the limits imposed by cold winters.

    “Standing genetic variation in heat tolerance is necessary for organisms to adapt to higher temperatures,” Westby said. “That’s why it was important for us to experimentally determine if this mosquito exhibits variation before we can begin to test how, or if, it will adapt to a warmer world.”

    Future research in the lab aims to determine the upper limits that mosquitoes will seek out hosts for blood meals in the field, where they spend the hottest parts of the day when temperatures get above those thresholds, and if they are already adapting to higher temperatures. “Determining this is key to understanding how climate change will impact disease transmission in the real world,” Westby said. “Mosquitoes in the wild experience fluctuating daily temperatures and humidity that we cannot fully replicate in the lab.”

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  • PPPL wins three major DOE awards for supercomputing fusion projects

    PPPL wins three major DOE awards for supercomputing fusion projects

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    Newswise — Funding for three major collaborations that aim to provide ground-breaking insights into the volatile behavior of plasma in fusion facilities has been won by PPPL. The projects represent three of the DOE’s 12 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) awards with an overall value of $112 million. 

    These four-year collaborations unite fusion scientists and applied mathematicians into multi-institutional teams. The projects, cosponsored by the DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, aim to solve complex fusion problems through high-performance supercomputing. Collaborators will model state-of-the-art solutions on today’s top computers, including new exascale computers that can process data a thousand times faster than current machines.

    “This collaborative effort will advance our understanding of fusion as an energy source while utilizing the most powerful supercomputers in the world,” said Jean Paul Allain, who heads the DOE’s Fusion Energy Sciences Department. The partnerships will also guide the design of fusion pilot plants, he said.  

    Fusion combines light elements in the form of plasma — the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, that makes up 99% of the visible universe — to release vast amounts of energy. The three PPPL-led collaborations bring together national laboratories, universities and private companies to advance fusion development. Two of the projects focus on doughnut-shaped tokamaks while the third involves twisted stellarator devices:

    Integrate superhot plasma core with cool edge in tokamak facilities

    The goal of this project, led by Felix Parra Diaz, head of the PPPL Theory Department, is to use advanced computation to study ways to reconcile conflicting tokamak requirements. These arise because fusion plasma must be tens of million degrees Centigrade at its core and cool enough at its edge to avoid damaging tokamak walls.

    The methods to be studied include altering the shape of the magnetic field that confines the plasma; injecting impurities into the plasma to affect its confinement and coating the walls of the tokamak with lithium to protect them from sudden bursts of heat. Parra Diaz said the findings and the advanced computer codes developed to produce them will enable the design of far larger, hotter and more powerful future tokamaks.

    Design a tokamak free of instabilities at the edge of the plasma

    This collaboration, led by principal research physicist Fatima Ebrahimi of PPPL, will develop computer simulations for tokamak plasmas free of instabilities called edge localized modes (ELMs). These frequent occurrences can produce detrimental heat loss and damage tokamak walls.

    The project will model the complete basis for ELMs-free regimes, Ebrahimi said. The resulting state-of-the-art, high-fidelity simulations using advanced computer architecture will create predictive capabilities for stabilizing the edge of magnetically shaped plasmas. Collaborators will put together a hybrid database by combining these simulations with existing experimental data on various worldwide tokamaks and will use the machine learning form of artificial intelligence to  project the findings to the design of a tokamak pilot plant..

    Explore stellarator power plants with high-fidelity simulations

    This project, led by Michael Churchill, head of digital engineering at PPPL, will create a high-fidelity digital prototype of a stellarator facility. The research will seek to verify a stellarator design under a variety of physics and engineering assumptions. Collaborators will use a hierarchy of current codes and incorporate high-fidelity simulation into the design optimization process. 

    The project will create a framework that public and private entities can use for stellarator design. The framework will combine state-of-the-art codes, artificial intelligence, advanced optimization techniques, and software developed under the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project. The overall goal, Churchill said, is to leverage more computing power into the design process to advance concepts for a stellarator pilot plant.
     

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  • U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research

    U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research

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    Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its selection of a multi-institutional team of data scientists from General Atomics (GA), the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and UC San Diego, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Sapientai to develop a Fusion Data Platform (FDP) for advancing high-priority fusion research. In support of this effort the DOE awarded the team a three-year, $7.4 million grant.

    Led by GA, the FDP initially will be deployed at SDSC, located at the University of California San Diego. Once completed, the FDP will be made available to the scientific community to provide access to high-quality fusion data for the efficient creation of reproducible artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) models to support the design and operation of a broad range of fusion pilot plants (FPP) designs and plasma configurations within a decadal timescale.

    A suite of AI/ML modeling capabilities developed by Sapientai and UC San Diego computer science and engineering faculty Rose Yu and Sicun Gao will be integrated with the platform, allowing it to serve as a powerful data and analysis tool that meets the growing needs of the fusion science community. 

    “Creating a robust AI/ML platform with very large curated datasets and efficient processing tools will be transformational for fusion energy,” said Brian Sammuli, head of the Fusion Data Science Center at GA and principal investigator. “By advancing AI/ML research in fusion, we will be able to rapidly address many of the remaining challenges in fusion science and reactor development. We look forward to leading this team to provide an outstanding platform for the scientific community to advance fusion research and support the deployment of the first generation of fusion energy power plants.”

    According to Raffi Nazikian, senior director and leader of the ITER Research Hub at GA, a key mission of the FDP is to accelerate AI/ML research by expanding access to high-quality fusion data and the tools needed to process the data at scale.

    “The FDP will include experimental and simulated data in an integrated platform. We are talking many petabytes of data that will be easily accessible on the platform,” said Nazikian. “The success of the FDP will be measured by how well we serve the needs of the fusion and broader data science community, including students and researchers from universities, national laboratories and industry.”  

    SDSC Director Frank Würthwein, professor in the Department of Physics and at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, said that the FDP is an important step toward  harnessing the power of fusion data to advance the development of fusion energy.

    “GA and SDSC have a long history dating back almost 40 years, and this is the beginning of a new chapter in our cooperation to advance fusion energy science and education,” Würthwein noted.

    Paolo Faraboschi, HPE fellow and AI Research Lab director at Hewlett Packard Labs, said that his team is excited to help build a powerful data platform for fusion. “Among the FDP unique capabilities will be the ability for users to access, understand and leverage prior data and AI pipelines to advance their research and build reproducible, certifiable AI/ML models. We look forward to working with the scientific community on the FDP to help realize the decadal vision for fusion energy development.”

    Craig Michoski, founder and CEO of Sapientai, also noted his group’s excitement to participate in the FDP project. “This is a phenomenal set of collaborative institutions, and we have high aspirations for the success and impact the FDP project will have across the fusion landscape,” he said. “We think the era of data-driven science and technology advancement is well upon us, and we are extremely excited to see how these tools applied to the treasure trove of DOE’s fusion data can advance the field and accelerate progress towards commercial fusion energy.”

    Supporting Data-Informed FPP Designs

    To achieve fusion conditions relevant for energy production, an FPP must sustain plasmas at temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius—approximately 10 times the temperature at the center of the sun. In magnetic confinement fusion, plasmas are controlled using powerful electromagnets that shape and confine the superheated gas. At such extreme temperatures, the plasmas may exhibit instabilities that may cause them to momentarily breach the magnetic fields and interact with the inner walls of the fusion machine, which could decrease efficiency or even cause damage. Successfully designing FPPs that account for these and other types of instabilities requires robust data sets to model and predict plasma behaviors across designs.

    The FDP will help to address this need by making large-scale fusion data easier to access and analyze. The multi-institutional team will draw from its significant AI/ML industry expertise to develop the FDP as a resource capable of being collectively utilized across distributed computational facilities.

    The FDP will leverage GA’s scaleable, fusion-specific data processing tool, TokSearch, to process and curate the data sets at the required scale. The team will also draw from HPE’s Common Metadata Framework to create reproducible workflows that include metadata tracking, source code integration, and data version control. A publishing portal will be incorporated into the system to facilitate search and discovery of these curated datasets. A suite of AI/ML modeling capabilities developed by Sapientai and UC San Diego will be integrated with the platform, allowing it to serve as a powerful data and analysis tool that meets the growing needs of the fusion science community.

    About the Team

    The San Diego Supercomputer Center was established in 1985 as one of the nation’s first supercomputer centers under a cooperative agreement by the National Science Foundation in collaboration with UC San Diego and GA. SDSC provides resources, services and expertise to the national research community, including industry and academia, and features the Expanse, Voyager and National Research Platform supercomputers and innovative computing systems. Expanse supports SDSC’s theme of “Computing without Boundaries” with a data-centric architecture, public cloud integration and state-of-the art GPUs for incorporating experimental facilities and edge computing. The first-of-its-kind experimental system with training and inference accelerators to provide high-performance, high-efficiency AI compute, Voyager supports AI research across a range of science and engineering domains. The National Research Platform provides a nationally distributed data and compute platform with GPUs and FPGAs for AI, and a content delivery system with data caches in the internet backbone across four continents. 

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service.

    Sapientai LLC combines ML and AI with data-intensive science, notably in nuclear fusion and plasma physics. They provide versatile software solutions, including off-the-shelf applications as well as tailored services. With a firm belief in collaboration, Sapientai encourages innovative research partnerships. Their work aligns with the Department of Energy’s mission, committed to advancing scientific frontiers.

    Since the dawn of the atomic age, General Atomics innovations have advanced the state of the art across the full spectrum of science and technology – from nuclear energy and defense to medicine and high-performance computing. Behind a talented global team of scientists, engineers, and professionals, GA’s unique experience and capabilities continue to deliver safe, sustainable, economical, and innovative solutions to meet growing global demands.

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  • Five ORNL scientists to receive DOE Early Career Research awards

    Five ORNL scientists to receive DOE Early Career Research awards

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    Newswise — The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has selected five Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists for Early Career Research Program awards. 

    Since its inception in 2010, the program bolsters national scientific discovery by supporting early career researchers in fields related to the Office of Science’s eight major program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Biological and Environmental Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Accelerator R&D and Production and Isotope R&D and Production.

    The awards are typically restricted to scientists in the first 10 years of their careers, but eligibility this year was extended to 12 years in recognition of complications from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many researchers complete their most formative work in these early career years.

    “Supporting America’s scientists and researchers early in their careers will ensure the United States remains at the forefront of scientific discovery,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The funding announced today gives the recipients the resources to find the answers to some of the most complex questions as they establish themselves as experts in their fields.”

    A total of 93 scientists nationwide, employed across 12 DOE national laboratories and 47 universities, will receive funding through this year’s program.

    “Support for these talented researchers is vital to ORNL’s goal of furthering the nation’s scientific priorities,” ORNL Interim Director Jeff Smith said. “Their scientific contributions will help in addressing challenges in quantum materials and computing, environmental systems and fusion energy.”

    The ORNL researchers receiving awards include:

    Matthew Brahlek, an R&D staff scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was selected by the Basic Energy Sciences program for his proposal, “Epitaxially Imposed Control of Chiral Transport Phenomena.”

    Due to their exotic states, materials with chiral symmetry, or a lack of mirror symmetry, offer key advantages in quantum-based technologies. To fully exploit their properties, however, scientists must simultaneously control a material’s underlying symmetry and dimensionality. In this project, Brahlek will create new chiral systems by combining dissimilar materials at the atomic level as atomically thin crystalline films. These new materials will allow for targeted control of symmetry and dimensionality to enable the discovery of new exotic superconductors and unusual low dimensional states. The resulting fundamental design principles established will drive the development of a new generation of quantum materials.

    Jack Cahill, an R&D associate scientist in the Biosciences Division, was selected by the Biological and Environmental Research Program for his proposal, “Elucidation and Validation of Genes Associated with Biological Nitrification Inhibition in Populus.”

    Nitrogen use efficiency, the amount of nitrogen used by a crop compared to the amount of nitrogen added, greatly impacts natural carbon sequestration. Bioenergy crops typically have low nitrogen use efficiency – as much as 70% of added nitrogen is lost as waste – which leads to poor carbon sequestration. Biological nitrification inhibitor molecules released from plants prevent such nitrogen loss by slowing nitrification processes. With this proposal, Cahill will conduct experiments to identify genes associated with such molecules in common bioenergy crop poplar, analyze nitrification in the soil surrounding poplar roots and ultimately improve crops’ efficiency and carbon sequestration.

    Eugene Dumitrescu, a staff research scientist in the Computational Science and Engineering Division, was selected by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program for his proposal, “MLRep4QC3: Multi-Linear Representations for Quantum Characterization, Control, and Computation.”

    Quantum processes have greatly expanded the boundaries of modern science, but scientists lack high-level operational methods for controlling quantum states. Dumitrescu aims to accelerate computational science by identifying where quantum control is possible with classical computing resources. To overcome scalability problems with prior models, Dumitrescu will develop multi-linear representation, or MLRep, algorithms, powerful tools to represent quantum states and minimize computational requirements for quantum characterization. Dumitrescu will then assess the quality of quantum processes and demonstrate the feasibility of MLRep algorithms for controlling quantum states. Finally, the algorithms will be compiled into a linear algebra package evaluating classical computing’s potential in quantum control.

    Takaaki Koyanagi, an R&D staff scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division, was selected by the Fusion Energy Sciences Program for his proposal, “Mechanistic framework for additive manufacturing of highly radiation-resistant SiC components.”

    Despite its potential as a carbon-free energy source, fusion power still faces several challenges, including a need for irradiation-resistant components. Koyanagi aims to develop these critical parts by combining the benefits of silicon carbide, a promising material for fusion energy system components, with the flexibilities of additive manufacturing. Specifically, Koyanagai will use binder jet 3D printing and chemical vapor infiltration of silicon carbide, a novel process developed at ORNL, to additively manufacture components. He will determine the products’ ideal microstructure for fusion through neutron irradiation experiments at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor, high-throughput processing and machine learning data analysis.

    Dan Lu, a senior staff scientist in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, was selected by the Biological and Environmental Research program for her proposal, “Integrating Machine Learning Models into E3SM for Understanding Coastal Compound Flooding.”

    Coastal urban regions have a unique importance to economic and environmental health. Because of population increases and coastal development, these areas are acutely threatened by the risk of severe flooding. Further research is needed to understand backwater effects, which occur when downstream water levels are higher than river water levels and are often responsible for coastal flooding. To address this need, Lu will use DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM, alongside machine learning methods to create a data- and physics-driven river model for evaluating backwater effects and modeling floods, with the goal of establishing reliable predictions to mitigate floods.

    Awardees will receive a combined $135 million across five years to cover salary and research expenses. The final details for each project award are subject to final grant and contract negotiations between DOE and the awardees. 

    UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. The Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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  • Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet

    Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet

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    Newswise — At ITER – the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation – the abrupt termination of magnetic confinement of a high temperature plasma through a so-called “disruption” poses a major open issue. As a countermeasure, disruption mitigation techniques, which allow to forcibly cool the plasma when signs of plasma instabilities are detected, are a subject of intensive research worldwide. Now, a team of Japanese researchers from National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) of National Institute of National Sciences (NINS) found that by adding approximately 5% neon to a hydrogen ice pellet, it is possible to cool the plasma more deeply below its surface and hence more effectively than when pure hydrogen ice pellets are injected. Using theoretical models and experimental measurements with advanced diagnostics at Large Helical Device owned by NIFS, the researchers clarified the dynamics of the dense plasmoid that forms around the ice pellet and identified the physical mechanisms responsible for the successful enhancement of the performance of the forced cooling system, which is indispensable for carrying out the experiments at ITER. These results will contribute to the establishment of plasma control technologies for future fusion reactors. The team’s report was made available online in Physical Review Letters.

    The construction of the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, ITER, is underway in France through international cooperation. At ITER, experiments will be conducted to generate 500 MW fusion energy by maintaining the ‘burning state’ of the hydrogen isotope plasma at more than 100 million degrees. One of the major obstacles to the success of those experiments is a phenomenon called “disruption” during which the magnetic field configuration used to confine the plasma collapses due to magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. Disruption causes the high-temperature plasma to flow into the inner surface of the containing vessel, resulting in structural damage that, in turn, may cause delays in the experimental schedule and higher cost. Although the machine and the operating conditions of ITER have been carefully designed to avoid disruption, uncertainties remain and for a number of experiments so that a dedicated machine protection strategy is required as a safeguard.

    A promising solution to this problem is a technique called “disruption mitigation,” which forcibly cools the plasma at the stage where first signs of instabilities that may cause a disruption are detected, thereby preventing damage to plasma-facing material components. As a baseline strategy, researchers are developing a method using ice pellets of hydrogen frozen at temperatures below 10 Kelvin and injecting it into a high-temperature plasma. The injected ice melts from the surface and evaporates and ionizes owing to heating by the ambient high-temperature plasma, forming a layer of low-temperature, high-density plasma (hereafter referred to as a “plasmoid”) around the ice. Such a low-temperature, high-density plasmoid mixes with the main plasma, whose temperature is reduced in the process. However, in recent experiments, it has become clear that when pure hydrogen ice is used, the plasmoid is ejected before it can mix with the target plasma, making it ineffective for cooling the high-temperature plasma deeper below the surface.

    This ejection was attributed to the high pressure of the plasmoid. Qualitatively, a plasma confined in a donut-shaped magnetic field tends to expand outward in proportion to the pressure. Plasmoids, which are formed by the melting and the ionization of hydrogen ice, are cold but very dense. Because temperature equilibration is much faster than density equilibration, the plasmoid pressure rises above that of the hot target plasma. The consequence is that the plasmoid becomes polarized and experiences drift motion across the magnetic field, so that it propagates outward before being able to fully mix with the hot target plasma. 

    A solution to this problem was proposed from theoretical analysis: model calculations predicted that by mixing a small amount of neon into hydrogen, the pressure of the plasmoid could be reduced. Neon freezes at a temperature of approximately 20 Kelvin and produces strong line radiation in the plasmoid. Therefore, if the neon is mixed with hydrogen ice before injection, part of the heating energy can be emitted as photon energy. 

    To demonstrate such a beneficial effect of using a hydrogen-neon mixture, a series of experiments was conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) located in Toki, Japan. For many years, the LHD has operated a device called the “solid hydrogen pellet injector” with high reliability, which injects ice pellets with a diameter of approximately 3 mm at the speed of 1100 m/s. Owing to the system’s high reliability, it is possible to inject hydrogen ice into the plasma with a temporal precision of 1 ms, which allows measurement of the plasma temperature and density just after the injected ice melts. Recently, the world’s highest time resolution for Thomson Scattering (TS) of 20 kHz was achieved in the LHD system using new laser technology. Using this system, the research team has captured the evolution of plasmoids. They found that, as predicted by theoretical calculations, plasmoid ejection was suppressed when hydrogen ice was doped with approximately 5 % neon, in stark contrast to the case where pure hydrogen ice was injected. In addition, the experiments confirmed that the neon plays a useful role in the effective cooling of the plasma.

    The results of this study show for the first time that the injection of hydrogen ice pellets doped with a small amount of neon into a high-temperature plasma is useful to effectively cool the deep core region of the plasma by suppressing plasmoid ejection. This effect of neon doping is not only interesting as a new experimental phenomenon, but also supports the development of the baseline strategy of disruption mitigation in ITER. The design review of the ITER disruption mitigation system is scheduled for 2023, and the present results will help improve the performance of the system.

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  • U.S. Scientists Confirm Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Energy

    U.S. Scientists Confirm Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Energy

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    Since the 1950s, scientists around the world have sought to replicate the reaction that fuels the sun in search of a clean energy “holy grail,” a technology capable of providing nonstop electricity without planet-heating emissions or radioactive waste.

    U.S. government researchers just got closer than anyone has before, briefly generating more energy from a fusion reaction than it took to set off, achieving what’s known as “ignition.”

    Blasting hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest laser had already yielded a “Wright brothers moment” in August 2021 when, for a brief 100 trillionths of a second, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California registered a historic burst of fusion energy. But the 1.3 megajoules generated was only about 70% of the energy fired from the laser.

    “Last week for the first time they designed the experiment so the fusion fuel stayed hot enough, dense enough and round enough for long enough that it ignited and it produced more energies than the lasers had deposited,” Marvin Adams, the National Nuclear Safety Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs, said Tuesday morning at a White House conference announcing the discovery. “About 2 megajoules in, about 3 megajoules out.”

    It’s a major new milestone — the first proof that humanity can harness the cosmic energy released when two lighter atoms fuse into one heavier element, less than a century after the awesome power of splitting atoms debuted as mushroom clouds.

    “We are in a moment of history, really,” said Arthur Turrell, a plasma physicist whose book “The Star Builders” tracks the growing momentum in nuclear fusion. “No doubt it’s one of the greatest technological challenges humanity has ever undertaken, but here we are. They’ve done it. They’ve proven it can happen.”

    Commercial fusion power plants are still decades away, at least. But the Biden administration’s announcement on Tuesday could shake up funding for fusion research.

    This story is developing.

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  • Kronos Fusion Energy Encourages the U.S. Senate to Support the American COMPETES Act of 2022 Amendment to Increase Funding for Fusion Energy

    Kronos Fusion Energy Encourages the U.S. Senate to Support the American COMPETES Act of 2022 Amendment to Increase Funding for Fusion Energy

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    Apr 4, 2022


    ARLINGTON, Va., April 4, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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    The American COMPETES Act of 2022 was passed by the House of Representatives in February 2022 to cover scientific research, economic competitiveness and various other matters related to CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANUFACTURING, PRE-EMINENCE IN TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC STRENGTH (COMPETES). After recent breakthroughs in the fusion energy industry, Kronos Fusion Energy highly encourages the support of this act. 

    On March 23, 2022, the US Senate voted 66-33 on a motion to proceed to consider this Bill. There is a very important Amendment for the fusion energy industry that was sponsored by three House members who are thought leaders in developing strategies to create high-paying American jobs for the fusion energy industry.

    Priyanca Ford, founder of Kronos Fusion Energy Inc, urged the U.S. Senate to consider fusion energy to be a bipartisan issue, “Fusion Energy is the cleanest and most efficient energy source in the universe that will lead mankind to a new golden age. [Ford] urges the U.S. Senate to support the Fusion Energy Amendment and to pass the COMPETES Bill quickly, to help to jumpstart the American fusion energy industry’s quest to become the global leader in jobs creation for fusion energy”.

    Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), the Chairman of the House Fusion Energy Caucus, Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA), the sponsor of the Fusion Amendment to the Energy Act of 2020 that created the fusion energy milestone program, and Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy in the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology sponsored the Fusion Energy Amendment that will help to foster the rapid growth of the United States fusion energy industry.

    Michael Pierce Hoban, managing partner at Kronos Fusion Energy Inc, commented on why this amendment is important to the U.S. fusion energy industry, “This amendment grows the funding for the Department of Energy’s proposed milestone-based public-private partnership program for fusion energy from $325 million over five years to $800 million. It also increases authorized funding for a new materials program from $200 million to $400 million over the coming five years.”

    The U.S. Senate is now considering whether to concur with the house amendment on fusion energy and whether to pass the COMPETES Bill so that a completed bill can go to President Biden for signature.

    Information on Kronos Fusion Energy can be found below.

    www.KronosFusionEnergy.com

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    PR Contact – Erin Pendleton – pr@kronosfusionenergy.com

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  • Grand Opening of Jyros Twisted Gyros in Sacramento

    Grand Opening of Jyros Twisted Gyros in Sacramento

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    SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 12, 2018 (Newswire.com)
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     Come and celebrate the grand opening of Jyros Twisted Gyros on March 15, 2018. Jyros is doing things that have not been done before with Greek and Mediterranean food. A couple “twists”: Jyros uses naan (a fluffy white Indian flatbread) in addition to the traditional Pita bread and Jyros is also doing an Al Pastor (Mexican) pork, Sriracha sauces and things like our Garlic Mayo and Twisted Fries (with meat, toppings and sauce). Get a Gyro, Bowl, Salad, Twisted Fries or Medusa Nachos.

    This is owner Jared Katzenbarger’s first independent concept. “It was fun to develop the concept on my own, taking the foods I love and creating a fun, new and exciting concept. I have been a franchisee for years and you do not have the flexibility and creativity that your own concept allows.” Katzenbarger elaborated, “For example, the first couple weeks we were open I received a lot of feedback. I was able to make immediate changes and the guests were appreciative of us keeping their suggestions in mind.”

    Jyros is doing things that have not been done before with Greek and Mediterranean food.

    Jared Katzenbarger, Owner, Jyros Twisted Gyros

    On Thursday, March 15, Jyros will be offering 50 percent off all food items and also doing $2 beer and wine. In addition, they will be giving away prizes and swag, and for anyone that dresses up in a Toga, they will get a free Sando. Please visit us on Facebook /JyrosTwistedGyros or Instagram /jyrostwisted.

    1901 J Street, Sacramento, CA 916-462-1002  11a.m. – 9 p.m.

    Jared Katzenbarger, 916-546-4399, jared@jyrosgyros.com

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  • Beach Ford Prepares Website for Cyber Monday Traffic!

    Beach Ford Prepares Website for Cyber Monday Traffic!

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    Myrtle Beach, SC, November 17, 2016 (Newswire.com)
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    Beach Ford is ready to give their customers one heck of a holiday shopping experience! In a recent blog post on their website, Beach Ford gave their customers some pretty remarkable information about Cyber Monday. Last year, they were taken by surprise by the demand for car sales via their website on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday.

    This year, they want everyone to know that after updating their website earlier this year, they are ready and prepared to help all of their customers take advantage of all their website has to offer. They also want everyone to know that they have a whole department simply devoted to internet sales. Beach Ford has knowledgeable staff online just waiting to help car buyers navigate the Beach Ford website, answer customer questions and help the customer through the online car buying process. The dealership really wants to make online car buying simple and efficient for their shoppers. You can read the original blog post here:

    Cyber Monday: Beach Ford is ready to help you!

    It looks like the folks at Beach Ford are really getting ready for the holidays! Beach Ford knows how easy their website is to use and how much information it provides. They have purposely developed it to be the most helpful car buying website on the internet.

    Beach Automotive Group is the largest Ford, Lincoln, Mazda and Volvo dealership in Myrtle Beach, SC. Not only do they sell and service those brands, they also have a large variety of pre-owned and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles, all in one central location. Beach Automotive Group also offers a wide range of services to help more people in more ways. Their financing team will use all their resources to get drivers approved for more money at better rates.

    For more information about Beach Automotive Group, Beach Ford or BeachFord.net, please contact Nick Domino at (843) 626-3666 or email at ndomino@beachautomotive.com.

    Beach Automotive Group was established in 1995 in order to help car buyers in Myrtle Beach, SC and surrounding areas find and purchase their perfect vehicle. BeachFord.net was updated and enhanced in 2016, in the hope of making the car buying process easy and as uncomplicated as possible for the car-buying consumer.

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