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…
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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…
Physicist Suying Jin with computer-generated images showing the properties of heat pulse propagation in plasma. Credit: Headshot courtesy of Suying Jin / Collage courtesy of…
Harnessing the Power of the Sun on Earth: Major Advance in Stellarator Performance for Fusion Energy
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…
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…
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…
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…