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PPPL co-manages DOE program to promote private-public fusion energy partnerships

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Feature describes PPPL role in innovative DOE program to promote public-private partnerships to speed development of fusion energy.

Tracking major sources of energy loss in compact fusion facilities

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Analysis of energy loss in low-aspect ratio tokamaks opens a new chapter in the development of predictions of transport in such facilities.

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

Researchers uncover a new obstacle to effective accelerator beams

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Release proposes explanation for failure to focus accelerator-fired ion beams.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists has for the first time created a particular form of coherent and magnetized plasma jet that could deepen the understanding of the workings of much larger jets that stream from newborn stars and possibly black holes.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation

Four scientists at PPPL awarded national and international honors

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Institutions ranging from NASA to the Korean Physical Society have recently bestowed national and international honors on four scientists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Release describes application of machine learning form of artificial intelligence to predict the behavior of fusion plasma.

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

Machine set to see if lithium can help bring fusion to Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

Feature describes three-year upgrade of the unique Lithium Tokamak Experiment that brings conditions in the device closer to those in a fusion reactor.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Feature describes Nature paper on opening a new chapter in fusion research with artificial intelligence.

Journal: Nature
Funder: PPPL Laboratory Directed Research, DOE Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration, Princeton University Institute for Computational Science and Engineering

Physicists improve understanding of heat and particle flow in the edge of a fusion device

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PPPL physicists have discovered valuable information about how plasma flows at the edge inside doughnut-shaped fusion devices. The findings mark an encouraging sign for the development of machines to produce fusion energy for generating electricity without creating long-term hazardous waste.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Ready, set, go: Scientists evaluate novel technique for firing up fusion-reaction fuel

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Article describes analytical confirmation that transient CHI, a novel device for starting up fusion plasmas, can achieve startup in future compact fusion facilities.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 2018 APS-DPP conference

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