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Putting the cold into fusion | 28/07/2011
Head of CCFE Professor Steve Cowley was one of the speakers at the recent ‘100 Years of Superconductivity' event at the Royal Society in London.
The event celebrated the advances made since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes' discovery of superconductivity in 1911. Organised by Oxford Instruments – one of the leading industrial exponents of this technology – and the Institute of Physics, it was attended by an audience of science and business leaders.
Professor Cowley described the importance of superconductivity in fusion, with particular reference to ITER, which will use superconducting magnets at extremely low temperatures to achieve maximum efficiency and limit energy consumption.
Other talks focused on the history and development of the technology and its medical applications, with speakers from Oxford University, the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging and Oxford Instruments.
Watch Steve Cowley's talk courtesy of Oxford Instruments' YouTube channel:
More on the event at: http://www.oxford-instruments.com/Lists/Bulletins/DispBulletin.aspx?id=57
