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DOE funds $21 million to advance diagnostics on the flagship facility at PPPL

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

New funding will upgrade diagnostics on the National Spherical Tokamak Experiment-Upgrade, the flagship facility at PPPL.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Researchers find unexpected electrical current that could stabilize fusion reactions

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PPPL scientists have found that electrical currents can form in ways not known before. The novel findings could give researchers greater ability to bring the fusion energy that drives the sun and stars to Earth.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: United States Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Science, United States Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

New public-private projects to speed fusion energy development come to PPPL

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

Two new fusion companies will work with PPPL to model their development concepts under the INFUSE program.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Revised code could help improve efficiency of fusion experiments

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by PPPL have upgraded a key computer code for calculating forces acting on magnetically confined plasma in fusion energy experiments. The upgrade will help scientists further improve the design of breakfast-cruller-shaped facilities known as stellarators.

Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Euratom Research and Training Program, Australian Research Council, Simons Foundation

Egemen Kolemen wins 2020 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Egemen Kolemen, Princeton University assistant professor and PPPL physicist, wins prestigious Fusion Power Associates award.

Photo and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists at PPPL discover a new trigger for edge localized modes (ELMs) -- instabilities that can halt fusion reactions and damage the tokamaks that house such reactions.

Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Scientists propose method for eliminating damaging heat bursts in fusion device

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers discover a technique for widening the windows of plasma current to enhance suppression of edge localized modes (ELMs) that can damage tokamak facilities.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Scientists propose a novel method for controlling fusion reactions

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have developed a pulsed method for stabilizing magnetic islands that can cause disruptions in fusion plasmas.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Will Fox wins 2020 John Dawson Award for insights into astrophysical shockwaves

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Profile of PPPL winner of APS Dawson Award for outstanding achievement in plasma physics research.

First results of an upgraded device highlight lithium's value for producing fusion

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Initial results of the LTX-β at PPPL show that the enhancements significantly improve performance of the plasma that will fuel future fusion reactors.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

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