The plasma vessel from Asdex Upgrade. At the bottom you can see the divertor’s baffle plates. Credit: © Volker Rohde On March 21, 1991, the…
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Rice University graduate student Grant Gorman at work in Rice’s Ultracold Atoms and Plasmas Lab. Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions…
PPPL physicist Gerrit Kramer with conceptual image of SPARC fusion reactor. Credit: Collage and Kramer photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. SPARC image courtesy…
KSTAR sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C. Aims to continuously operate high-temperature plasma over the 100-million-degree for 300 seconds…
[embedded content]Computer simulation of ELM crashes at the lower plasma edge of ASDEX Upgrade fusion device. The video shows the evolution of the plasma pressure…
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.…
ORNL researchers used natural tungsten (yellow) and enriched tungsten (orange) to trace the erosion, transport and redeposition of tungsten. Tungsten is the leading option to…
From her home in Alabama, MIT sophomore Lauryn Kortman focuses on the analytical aspects of her fusion magnet research. Credit: Jodi and Michael Kortman Rising…
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States,…
Construction of the ITER scientific installation began in 2010. Credit: ITER Organization Fusion: Future source of carbon-free, abundant, safe and economic energy; Leaders of EU,…
After his PhD thesis invalidates an old assumption, Norman Cao wonders what’s next. “What are some challenges in controlling plasma and what are your solutions?…
ITER Fusion Reactor Tokamak Assembly Begins – World’s Largest International Scientific Collaboration
The 1250 ton cyrostat base is positioned over the ITER tokamak pit for installation. This base is the heaviest lift of tokamak assembly. Credit: ITER…
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…