The Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility (APFRF) held a successful launch of the H-1 facility upgrade yesterday in coordination with the launch of the strategic plan for fusion science. Senator Zed Seselja along with Dr Adi Paterson, Director of ANSTO, were welcomed to the facility by the Vice-Chancellor...

In the latest episode of MegaVolts we talk about fusion and when it fails. It’s a grey area – sometimes colliding nuclei miss, sometimes they bounce and sometimes they stick for a little while, dance around each other and then go their separate ways, both somehow changed forever… Getting...

When nuclei collide, protons and neutrons zip back and forth between them, even if they stay a significant distance apart and don’t touch. Physicists measured nuclei bouncing off one another, without sufficient energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the two positively charged nuclei,...

When Rosemary Zielinski was offered an honours project to develop a theory of quantum tunnelling, her first thought was, 'but that’s already done – I studied that in second year!' Quantum tunnelling is a well-documented example of quantum weirdness; particles that, according to Newton’s...