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…
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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…
The ARC Fusion Pilot Plant concept was developed at MIT as a demonstration of the potential of high-temperature superconducting magnets to reduce the cost and…
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…
David Fischer sits beside the experiment’s vacuum chamber (illuminated in blue), where the high temperature superconductor tapes will be mounted for proton irradiation and in…
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.…
An artist’s rendering of electrical current flowing through a tokamak fusion facility. Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Electric current is everywhere, from…
Physicist Suying Jin, DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Credit: Suying Jin Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering…
Wide angle view of the interior of the Wendelstein 7-X plasma vessel, showing the different armour materials designed to take up the heat from the…
The ITER Tokamak will be nearly 30 meters tall, and weigh 50,000,000 pounds. The very small man dressed in blue (bottom right) gives us some…