Principal research scientists at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Dr. John Wright and Dr. Stephen Wukitch, have collaborated with international partners on a review paper summarizing research on a three-ion approach to plasma heating for magnetic fusion devices, a scenario for which they shared the American Physical Society (APS) Landau-Spitzer Award in 2018.
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.
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’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices.
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.