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…
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Physicist Himawan Winarto with figures from paper behind him. Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications A new method for verifying a widely held…
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…
Image showing spiraling magnetic field fluctuations at the edge of the NSTX tokamak. Credit: Physics of Plasmas. Composition by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications Blobs can…
Solar wind. Credit: NASA As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere with satellites and global…
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…
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…
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…
A major issue with operating ring-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks is keeping the plasma that fuels fusion reactions free of impurities that could reduce…
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…
Stellarators, twisty machines that house fusion reactions, rely on complex magnetic coils that are challenging to design and build. Now, a physicist at the U.S.…