Schematic of fast ions (black spirals) interacting with plasma waves (color) in a fusion experiment. Credit: Steve Allen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and adapted by…
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Recent research at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility has led to groundbreaking observations of energetic ions in fusion plasmas, crucial for maintaining the state of…
Universities are key to the development of high-tech industries, especially the emerging fusion energy sector. However, there’s a notable gap in fusion-focused academic resources. Experts…
Rochester’s LLE has been awarded $10 million by the DOE to advance inertial fusion energy research, leading efforts to create innovative laser technologies and train…
EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center is a leading force in nuclear fusion research, using a unique tokamak reactor to study plasma behavior. Their work aims to…
A team of researchers has introduced a method to mitigate damaging runaway electrons in tokamak fusion devices. The strategy harnesses Alfvén waves to disrupt the…
New work being undertaken by MIT’s Cristina Rea and her co-investigators seeks to accelerate the progress of fusion science and make fusion energy a reality…
Structure of Heliotron J device. Credit: KyotoU/Heliotron J group Plasma physicists from Ukraine, Germany and Japan collaborate to spark fusion power. Despite being forced to…
MIT has contributed to the success of the ignition program at the National Ignition Facilty for more than a decade by providing and using a…
On the one-year anniversary of achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, the scientific results of this record experiment…
Nuclear fusion facility: JET interior with superimposed plasma. Nuclear fusion energy could be a pivotal sustainable energy source to complement renewables. Credit: UKAEA The old…
Illustration of cloud-like ionized plasma in the ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPLThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative…
According to recent simulations and analysis, the flagship fusion facility of the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPLThe U.S. Department…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have created an efficient computer algorithm to model the crazy-quilt movement of free electrons…
When ITER, the international fusion experiment, starts up in 2025, one of the major priorities will be to minimize or mitigate violent disruptions that could…
Magnetic fusion reactors contain super hot plasma in a donut-shaped container called a tokamak. Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls –…
Artist’s animation of burning plasma inside a fusion reactor. Nature paper chronicles how researchers achieved burning plasmaPlasma is one of the four fundamental states of…
Plasma inside the TCV tokamak. Credit: Curdin Wüthrich /SPC/EPFL Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling…
Scientists have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the conceptual design of twisty stellarators, experimental magnetic facilities that could reproduce on Earth the fusion energy that…