Collage of Top-5 PPPL Achievements in 2015 (IMAGE)

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Collage of Top-5 PPPL Achievements in 2015

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From left: 1.Interior of the NSTX-U showing the completed center stack; 2.W7-X stellarator in Greifswald, Germany; 3.Carlos Paz-Soldan and Raffi Nazikian advanced understanding of the control of heat bursts; 4.Magnetic island geometry revealing the mechanism for the density limit. (Reprinted with permission from Phys. Plasmas 22, 022514 2015); 5.Solar flare at the peak of the cycle in October, 2014, with no observed eruptions. Background: Umbrella view of the interior of the NSTX-U.

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Elle Starkman/PPPL; Lisa Petrillo/GA for Carlos Paz-Soldan and Raffi Nazikian

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