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PPPL celebrates role in first research plasma on W7-X stellarator in Germany

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has designed and contributed major components to the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany and is collaborating on research.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

PPPL physicists win Torkil Jensen award

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Physicists Luis Delgado-Aparicio and Egemen Kolemen of the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have won a national scientific competition to conduct a full day of experiments on the DIII-D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates in San Diego for the DOE.

Graduate students install diagnostic on NSTX-U

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

A system of antennas similar to those that astrophysicists use to study radio emissions from stars and galaxies will help shed light on fusion experiments at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

A collaboration bears fruit as W7-X celebrates first research plasma

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and other national laboratories joined colleagues from around the world at the celebration for the first plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany.

Schweickhard 'Schwick' von Goeler dies at 84

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Schweickhard 'Schwick' von Goeler, an award-winning physicist at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for more than 35 years and the inventor of numerous X-ray diagnostics used in fusion experiments worldwide, died of leukemia on Dec. 6 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was 84.

Bernard named communications director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Larry Bernard, a proven developer of strategic communications programs, has been named director of communications for the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), effective Dec. 14.

PPPL physicists propose new plasma-based method to treat radioactive waste

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Article describes a proposed plasma-based method for treating nuclear waste.

Identifying new sources of turbulence in spherical tokamaks

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This article describes a paper that identifies two new sources of turbulence in a state-of-the-art simulation of a spherical tokamak.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: Office of Science/Fusion Energy Sciences

PPPL engineers build mirror mechanism using 3-D-printer and off-the-shelf parts

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the spirit of tinkering lives. This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3-D printing and parts bought at Walmart.

Rob Goldston wins 2015 Nuclear Fusion Award for best paper published in 2012

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Rob Goldston wins the 2015 Nuclear Fusion Award for best paper published in 2012.

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