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CAS is to set up an international experimental zone for thermonuclear fusion
China, November 29: The Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) under the CAS Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, a Chinese partner in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Program, is going to establish an international experimental zone for thermonuclear fusion up to 13 hectares. At present the work on land acquisition has been completed.

American Superconductor to Acquire Windtec(TM)
Westborough, MA, November 29: American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windtec, a private company based in Klagenfurt, Austria that develops and licenses proprietary wind turbine system designs, and sells wind turbine electrical systems. The transaction's closing is expected in January 2007.
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Last LHC Superconducting Main Magnet Completes the Suite at CERN
Geneva, Switzerland, November 28: CERN took delivery of the last superconducting main magnet for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 27 November. This completes the full set of 1624 main magnets required to build the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
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Chinese scientists to take part in ITER construction

J-PARC Linac Accelerated Its First Beam
Tokai, Japan, November 22: Physicists confirmed the acceleration of the proton beam at the first sets of Linac in J-PARC, a world-class high intensity proton synchrotron accelerator, on November 21. This success marks the beginning of the series of accelerator operations tests leading to the rest of the facility including 3 GeV and 50 GeV proton synchrotrons, jointly build by two national agencies, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK).
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ITER Organization gets the go-ahead
Paris, France, November 21: Today, Ministers from the seven Parties of the international nuclear fusion project ITER (China, European Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America) came together to sign the agreement to establish the international Organization that will implement the ITER fusion energy project.
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Oxford, England, November 21:Oxford Instruments plc, the high technology tools and systems business, today announced interim results for the six months to 30 September 2006. Highlights include: Strong first half with like for like orders up 28% at £85.3m. Revenues increased by 19% to £72.1m on a like for like basis, 8% as reported. Revenues increased by 19% to £72.1m on a like for like basis, 8% as reported.

VSM MedTech Restructures, Signs Marketing Agreement with Mass Financial Corp.
Vancouver, BC, November 20: VSM MedTech Ltd. wishes to announce that as part of its ongoing restructuring program, on November 10, 2006 it entered into a sales and marketing agreement with VSM International Systems Inc. (“VSM International”), a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Mass Financial Corp. (“MASS”), to distribute its MEG systems on a world wide basis. Paul Murdoch, the former President and CEO of VSM has resigned from the Company and its Board to accept the position of Executive Vice President, International Sales & Marketing of VSM International. Mr. James M. Carter, who is also a Vice President of MASS, has been appointed to the position of President & CEO of VSM to replace Mr. Murdoch.

Paris, November 20: Air Liquide delivers the largest cryogenic system in the world to CERN Near Geneva, on the Franco-Swiss border, CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is building the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. The CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) particle accelerator will break new ground in terms of knowledge of particle physics and will therefore advance fundamental research on matter and the birth of the universe.

World’s Largest Superconducting Magnet Switches On
Geneva, 20 November: The largest superconducting magnet ever built has successfully been powered up to its nominal operating conditions at the first attempt. Called the Barrel Toroid because of its shape, this magnet provides a powerful magnetic field for ATLAS, one of the major particle detectors being prepared to take data at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator scheduled to turn on in November 2007.

FONAR Receives Medical Imaging Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award From Frost & Sullivan

Melville, NY, November 20: FONAR Corporation, The Inventor of MR Scanning™, announced today, that in a lavish dinner celebration in La Jolla, California, FONAR was presented the 2006 North American Medical Imaging Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award by Frost and Sullivan. FONAR Vice Presidents David Terry and Lawrence Minkoff, Ph.D. received the award on behalf of FONAR.
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One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved

Upton, NY, November 16: Research published online in the journal Science this week by Tonica Valla, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, appears to resolve one mystery in the 20-year study of high-temperature (high T_c) superconductors — materials that lose their resistance to the flow of electricity at relatively high temperatures. The research shows that a “pseudogap” in the energy level of the material’s electronic spectrum is the result of the electrons being bound into pairs above the so-called transition temperature to the superconducting state, but unable to superconduct because the pairs move incoherently.

American Superconductor Reports Increasing Demand for 344 Superconductors Used in Fault Current Limiter Applications
Westborough, MA, November 16: American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today that a majority of the second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire – known as 344 superconductors – being shipped by AMSC in its current fiscal year ending March 31, 2007 is being used in the development of fault current limiters. Fault current limiters act as high-voltage surge protectors for power grids to increase grid reliability.

Swapan Chattopadhyay appointed to the UK’s first Chair of Accelerator Physics and to be the Inaugural Director of The Cockcroft Institute
Daresbury, UK, November 15: The Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster have appointed Swapan Chattopadhyay to the Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics. The three universities have together created this new Chair, the first such joint chair in Accelerator Physics in the UK. Chattopadhyay’s appointment is to be held concurrently with the position of Inaugural Director of The Cockcroft Institute from March 19th 2007. He will also serve as a principal member of the steering committees for the flagship, “fourth generation”, light source, 4GLS, which is now in preparation at the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus.

License agreement for superconducting MgB2 breakthrough
Australia, November 12: The University of Wollongong has consolidated its standing as one of the world leaders in the development of superconductivity materials with the announcement that it has signed a licence agreement to patent a breakthrough technology with a US-based company.

Helsiniki, Finland, November 9: In a recent experiment, to be published in Nature on November 9, Dr Matthias Meschke and professor Jukka Pekola, together with Dr Wiebke Guichard, a coworker from French CNRS, investigated heat exchange between two small pieces of normal metal, connected to each other only via superconducting leads. The results demonstrate that at very low temperatures heat is transferred by electromagnetic radiation. The PICO research group is a part of the Low Temperature Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology - TKK, Finland. The domain of interest of the PICO research group is how heat is transported in nano- and micrometer sized devices on an ordinary silicon chip at only 0.1 degrees above absolute zero.

Santa Barbara, CA, November 9: Superconductor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:SCON), a leading provider of high performance infrastructure products for wireless voice and data applications, today announced results for the quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2006. Total net revenues for the third quarter were $5.9 million, compared to $5.0 million in the second quarter of 2006 and $3.9 million in the year ago third quarter.
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New Fabrication Process Paves Way For Next Generation All-Digital Transceiver Capable Of Operation In Excess Of 80 GHz Clock Speed
Elmsford, NY, November 7: HYPRES Inc., a leading developer of superconducting microelectronics (SME) technology, recently achieved a major milestone when it successfully tested fabricated integrated circuits featuring a critical current density of 20 kiloamps per square centimeter (kA/cm2).
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Analysis of Global Diagnostic Imaging Markets Shows Growth in US, Europe and Japan
Waltham, MA, November 6: Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, has completed a thorough analysis of the Japanese diagnostic imaging market, the third installment in a three-report series covering Europe and the US.
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American Superconductor Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
Westborough, MA, November 2: American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today reported financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2006.

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Superconductive Components, Inc. Reports Record Third Quarter Revenue
Columbus, OH, November 1: Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCCI), dba SCI Engineered Materials, a manufacturer of high quality sputtering targets for select markets in the physical vapor deposition industry, today announced financial results for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2006.
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Varian, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter 2006 Results
Palo Alto, CA, November 1: Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:VARI) today reported fourth quarter 2006 revenues of $219.6 million, representing an increase of 10.9% over revenues of $198.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005. The growth in sales was broad-based. Demand was particularly strong for industrial applications and within the Pacific Rim and Europe.

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U.S. Department of Energy Awards Contract for Management and Operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC
Batavia, IL, November 1: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a new $1.575 billion, five-year contract for management and operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, owned jointly by the University of Chicago (UChicago) and Universities Research Association, Inc.
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Colorado State University is Partner in $11 Million Grant for Mathematical Modeling of Fusion
Fort Collins, CO, November 1: Providing the mathematical tools to enable whole-device modeling for the U.S. fusion program is the goal of a $500,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant recently awarded to Colorado State University's Don Estep, a professor in the mathematics and statistics departments. The grant is a component of a major $11 million project awarded to the Boulder-based Tech X through the Department of Energy 2006 SCIDAC2 program.

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MRI analysis could prevent brain damage from stroke, Stanford study finds
Stanford, CA, November 1: A stroke victim arrives in the emergency room and, within minutes, the doctor must make a decision: Should drugs be administered to open up the blocked blood vessel and prevent further brain damage? Or is this patient at high risk for suffering a brain hemorrhage if the blocked vessel is opened?

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Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. Is Awarded The Frost & Sullivan '2006 Niche Player of the Year'

North Andover, MA, November 1: Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. has been awarded the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Niche Player of the Year for its role as a technology leader in Dedicated Breast MRI.