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DIFFER's facility Magnum-PSI produced its first plasma on Wednesday 8 June 2016, a major milestone in the relocation of this unique experiment for fusion wall materials. Magnum-PSI will be fully operational again at the end of 2016, and is the only laboratory setup in the world capable of investigating candidate materials under the realistic conditions for future fusion experiments like ITER.

Professor C.C.A.M. (Stan) Gielen will become chair of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) with effect from 1 January 2017. NWO is currently undergoing major changes. The governance and organisation will become more streamlined and coherent.

3 juni 2016

May 25th, 2016

On Wednesday 20 April, DIFFER performed the first material properties measurement with the institute's new ion beam facility. This is a milestone in the setting up of this new experiment, which uses a beam of fast ions to probe advanced energy materials.