News Archive

February 22, 2021

An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power development

PSFC

February 22, 2021

Understanding imperfections in fusion magnets

MIT Energy Fellow Richard Ibekwe is attracted to the challenges of fusion research."There are few problems as hard to solve or that might have as profound a potential positive impact on our planet and the whole of humanity,” he says.
 

PSFC News

February 3, 2021

Keeping an eye on the fusion future

"When I actually got into the depths of fusion, seeing what the PSFC was doing - nothing ever compared,” says graduate student Dan Korsun.

PSFC News

January 25, 2021

Atomic design for a carbon-free planet

Ju Li's research has hastened advances in materials with applications in nuclear energy, batteries, and energy conversion, with significant near- and long-term implications for decarbonizing the planet. 

MIT News

January 21, 2021

New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants running

MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices.

PSFC / NSE News

January 14, 2021

InEnTec: Turning trash into valuable chemical products and clean fuels

Landfills take up space, but there is a much more serious problem associated with them according to MITEI research scientist Daniel R. Cohn: greenhouse gas emissions.

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December 21, 2020

Storm in a cosmic teacup: Discovering a new paradigm for understanding plasma turbulence

On the path to writing his PhD dissertation Lucio Milanese made a discovery - one that refocused his research and will now likely dominate his thesis.

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December 18, 2020

Three Questions: Francesco Sciortino on his HTPD invited talk

PhD candidate Francesco Sciortino works at the PSFC on plasma turbulence in tokamaks, with an emphasis on computational statistics and machine learning methods.

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