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August 7, 2019

Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in laboratory

PSFC's Chikang Li and an international team of researachers have reproduced critical conditions of collisionless shocks in the laboratory, allowing for detailed study of the processes taking place within giant cosmic smashups.

MIT News

August 1, 2019

PSFC physicist Maria Gatu Johnson wins APS award

Research scientist Maria Gatu Johnson, part of the PSFC’s High-Energy-Density Physics Division, will receive the American Physical Society’s Katherine E. Weimer Award, which recognizes outstanding plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early stages of her career.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

July 31, 2019

Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts

Picard's study of the microwaves that speed from the megawatt gyrotron at MIT’s PSFC could lead the way to smaller and more powerful particle accelerators, the kind of finished product Picard finds rewarding.

PSFC

June 27, 2019

CFS raises $115M, closes Series A round to Commercialize Fusion Energy

Financing will support technology development of SPARC, the world's first system to prove the viability of commercial fusion power

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

June 26, 2019

Brandon Sorbom: Tech Review 35InnovatorsUnder35

By developing an electromagnetic system using high-temperature superconductors to insulate part of the fusion process, Sorbom’s breakthrough could make fusion power plant designs dramatically cheaper to build.

MIT Technology Review

June 19, 2019

Anne White named head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Fusion energy and turbulence modeling expert will succeed Dennis Whyte as Department Head, effective July 1.

School of Engineering

June 14, 2019

Cody Can (PhD ’17) named the winner of the 2019 Raymond Andrew Prize

Thach (Cody) Can (PhD ’17), a former member of Professor Robert Guy Griffin‘s research group, has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Raymond Andrew Prize.

Department of Chemistry

May 7, 2019

Steering Fusion’s “D-turn”

PSFC research scientist Alessandro Marinoni researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have discovered promising evidence that reversing the conventional shape of the plasma in the tokamak chamber can create a more stable environment for fusion to occur, even under high pressure.

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