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PPPL inventors win award for device that creates isotope vital for diagnosing diseases

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Charles Gentile, an engineer at PPPL, and fellow inventors George Ascione and Adam Cohen won third prize at Princeton University Keller Center's 11th Annual Innovation Forum on Feb. 24 for their invention of an on-demand method to create a badly needed isotope used routinely in medical imaging.

PPPL graduate students help create exhibition exploring art and physics

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

This winter, a group of past and present PPPL graduate students collaborated on a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum that explores the connections between physics and art.

Developing the digital safeguard that protects PPPL's upgraded tokamak

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

At PPPL, engineers have successfully designed, built, tested and installed a state-of-the-art system that protects NSTX-U's coils from accidental overload.

PPPL researchers advance understanding of turbulence that drains heat from fusion reactors

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory appear to have gained important new insights into what affects plasma turbulence, which can impact the leakage of heat from the fusion plasma within tokamaks. Understanding how fusion plasmas lose heat is crucial because the more a plasma is able to retain its heat the more efficient a fusion reactor can be.

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

PPPL physicists help celebrate first hydrogen plasma on W7-X

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicists collaborating on the Wendelstein 7-X (W 7-X) stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany were on hand for the Feb. 3 celebration when German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed a button to produce a hydrogen-fueled superhot gas called a plasma.

Funder: DOE/Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
Meeting: 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

PPPL team wins 80 million processor hours on nation's fastest supercomputer

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy has awarded a total of 80 million processor hours on the fastest supercomputer in the nation to an astrophysical project based at the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The grants will enable researchers led by Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the Theory Department at PPPL, and physicist Will Fox to study the dynamics of magnetic fields in the high-energy density plasmas that lasers create.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Top-5 achievements at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2015

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

This article describes the top 5 scientific and engineering advances at PPPL during the past year.

PPPL engineers complete the design of Wendelstein 7-X scraper unit

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

Engineers at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have finished designing a novel component for the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator, which recently opened at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Griefswald, Germany.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PPPL scientists simulate innovative method for starting up tokamaks without using solenoid

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: US Office of Science

Description of mechanism that halts solar eruptions

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

At the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, researchers led by physicist Clayton Myers have identified a mechanism that may halt eruptions before they leave the sun.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

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