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New Princeton supercomputer advances fusion research at PPPL

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton University officially launches a new supercomputer, Traverse, that will accelerate development of the science at PPPL to bring the fusion that powers the sun and stars to Earth.

Light my fire: How to startup fusion devices every time

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have constructed a framework for starting and raising a fusion plasma to temperatures rivaling the sun in hundreds of milliseconds.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, RCUK Energy Programme

Versatile physics leader Stefan Gerhardt elected an APS fellow

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Profile of physicist Stefan Gerhardt who has been elected a 2019 fellow of the American Physical Society.

Testing the Toughness of Microbial Cell Walls

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Microbial cells contain biological material that can be important for research or industrial use, such as DNA or proteins. Yet, reaching this cellular material can be a challenge.

Today's forecast: How to predict crucial plasma pressure in future fusion facilities

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Feature describes improved model for forecasting the crucial balance of pressure at the edge of a fusion plasma.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Look, up in the sky! Interns develop a device that levitates droplets of water

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Features describes summer interns who built an acoustical levitator at PPPL.

New collaborative facility will explore a key source of innovation

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Feature describes new national facility hosted by PPPL and Princeton University to advance understanding and control of low-temperature plasma, a rapidly expanding source of innovation in fields ranging from electronics to health care to space exploration.

New technique could streamline design of intricate fusion device

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stellarators, twisty machines that house fusion reactions, rely on complex magnetic coils that are challenging to design and build. Now, a PPPL physicist has developed a mathematical technique to help simplify the design of the coils.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PPPL Physicist Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck wins DOE Early Career Research Award

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Profile of PPPL recipient of a 2019 DOE Early Career Research Award.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Improving the magnetic bottle that controls fusion power on Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The exhaustive detection method that discovered the error field in the initial run of the NSTX-U tokamak could serve as a model for error-field detection in future tokamaks.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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