Host Adam Shaw interviewed PSFC Director and Nuclear Science and Engineering Department Head Prof. Dennis Whyte about the laboratory’s current project, the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, and MIT’s new vision for a smaller, faster, less expensive approach to fusion research.
MIT’s IAP brought National Ignition Facility Director Mark Hermann to the PSFC in January to talk about the science behind the inertial confinement fusion experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Research scientist Maria Gatu Johnson is intrigued. The results of her recent experiment are very different from what she anticipated, giving rise to even more questions. But her smile suggests she’s enjoying every minute of her bewilderment. “It’s the fun of physics,” she says.
