News Archive

October 22, 2015

MIT PSFC's Doody wins Best Paper Award for ADX design

Doody wins award at the COMSOL Conference 2015 for his paper “Structural Analysis of the Advanced Divertor eXperiment’s Proposed Vacuum Vessel".

PSFC

October 19, 2015

Booker and Kimmel visit Alcator C-Mod, explore new superconducting technology

PSFC

October 14, 2015

Science writers visit MIT’s fusion experiment

Over 30 science writers and public information officers gathered insight into the current state of world fusion research, and the possibilities for the future on a recent tour of the PSFC.

PSFC

October 8, 2015

Analyzing protein structures in their native environment

Enhanced-sensitivity NMR could reveal new clues to how proteins fold.

MIT News

September 9, 2015

Dennis Whyte named head of Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Whyte succeeds Richard Lester as NSE department head.

MIT News

August 18, 2015

Unusual magnetic behavior observed at a material interface

Findings could lead to a building block for future quantum computers, and a research tool for physics.

MIT News

August 10, 2015

A small, modular, efficient fusion plant

New design could finally help to bring the long-sought power source closer to reality.

MIT News

June 17, 2015

Fusion Energy Sooner and Cheaper?

Dr. Dennis Whyte, the Director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, showed that a series of scientific and engineering breakthroughs could enable fusion to become a feasible a power source faster and cheaper than anyone had thought possible.

American Security Project