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Red and orange swirls simulation of plasma

December 13, 2021

Seeing the plasma edge of fusion experiments in new ways with AI

In a pair of recent publications, Abhilash Mathews begins directly testing the accuracy of a reduced plasma turbulence model in a new way: he combines physics with machine learning.

PSFC News

December 10, 2021

Helping make fusion a reality

Fusion has great potential as a carbon-free energy source but plasma turbulence presents a problem. Rachel Bielajew is taking on that challenge and helping make a better world—through science and community action.

MIT NSE News

November 22, 2021

Research Administration Spotlight: Katherine Ware and David Parker

PSFC Senior Fiscal Office Katherine Ware and Administrative Officer David Parker share their enjoyment of working at the PSFC in this RA Community News interview.

RA Community News

Faces of participants surrounding the MIT dome

November 12, 2021

MIT makes strides on climate action plan

Prof. Anne White (co-chair of MIT's Climate Nucleus) and PSFC Director Dennis White both contributed to the MIT Climate Tune-In, just part of the Institute's effort to make strides on climate change discussed in this article.

MIT News

November 12, 2021

Gene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies at 91

Gene Dresselhaus, a longtime research physicist at MIT who worked at Lincoln Laboratory, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and the PSFC, died peacefully at his home in California on Sept. 29 at age 91.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

November 8, 2021

Anne White: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner

SoE Distinguished Professor of Engineering Anne White answers the question "What did the 2011 Department of Energy Early Career Award allow you to do?"

Department of Energy Office of Science

October 27, 2021

MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

PSFC Director Dennis Whyte and NSE Professor Jeff Freidberg have received a Seed Fund grant from MITEI to study “Advanced MHD topping cycles: For fission, fusion, solar power plants."

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustration of reverse d-shaped plasma inside tokamak

October 22, 2021

Alessandro Marinoni: Returning to fusion’s D-turn

Alessandro Marinoni has continued to examine an innovative plasma shape, dubbed “negative triangularity,” extending previous research to configurations more compatible with the plasma environment of a reactor.

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