Nuclear fusion facility: JET interior with superimposed plasma. Credit: UKAEA European joint experiment prepares transition to large-scale ITER project. Following the example of the sun,…
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Visualized are two-dimensional pressure fluctuations within a larger three-dimensional magnetically confined fusion plasma simulation. With recent advances in machine-learning techniques, these types of partial observations…
MITMIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861.…
Credit: U.S. Fusion Energy The new community-wide outreach, education, and workforce development website provides centralized resources for all audiences. The U.S. Fusion Outreach Team, a…
The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility are the first step in increasing the energy of laser beams as they make their way toward the…
Cross section of a tokamak (left) with exhaust region highlighted in green and simulation box in red. Snapshots of electron density (right) from simulations show…
Harnessing the Power of the Sun on Earth: Major Advance in Stellarator Performance for Fusion Energy
Wendelstein 7-X stellarator schema. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Stellarators, twisty magnetic devices that aim to harness on Earth the fusion energy that…
This large-bore, full-scale high-temperature superconducting magnet designed and built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has demonstrated a record-breaking…
The Science Tokamak devices use strong magnetic fields to confine and shape the plasmaPlasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, along with…
A key challenge for scientists striving to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is preventing what are called runaway…
National Ignition Facility Breakthrough: Experiment Puts Researchers at Threshold of Fusion Ignition
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at the National Ignition Facility put researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, achieving a yield of more than…
The magnet system of Wendelstein 7-X. Fifty superconducting magnet coils create the magnetic cage for confining the plasma. In the twisted coil forms, computational optimization…
Image of the inside of a magnetic confinement experiment during plasma discharge. In a tokamak, plasma particles are confined and shaped by magnetic field lines…
Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.…
Supercomputer simulation of plasma turbulence in a spherical tokamak. Credit: Image courtesy of Walter Guttenfelder of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Fusion energy science is a…
Schematic image of permanent magnet stellarator with plasma in yellow. Red and blue indicate permanent magnets with simplified coils surrounding the vessel. Credit: Coaxing Zhu…
ARCH is a conceptual design for an onboard fusion device capable of generating ammonia fuel for ship engines. Credit: Ethan Peterson How an MIT engineering…
NIF’s high-energy laser beams converge on a target at the center of the target chamber. Success in achieving fusion ignition would be a major step…
Futuristic power plant concept. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and all other stars. During fusion, the nuclei of two atoms are…
Fusion reactor technologies are well-positioned to contribute to our future power needs in a safe and sustainable manner. Numerical models can provide researchers with information…