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June 21, 2021

Quaise Inc's drilling technology could allow geothermal to power the world

PSFC Senior Research Scientist Paul Woskov is contributing to new plasma drilling technology for accessing carbon-free geothermal energy.

Eurekalert! / AAAS

June 14, 2021

DIII-D researchers continue to improve innovative operating regime for fusion reactors

PSFC research scientist Theresa Wilks and DIII-D colleagues are studying how to use advanced control algorithms to protect the walls of fusion devices without degrading performance.

General Atomics News

Abhay Ram standing with arms crossed in front of greenery.

June 7, 2021

Revisiting a quantum past for a fusion future

Principal Research Scientist Abhay Ram is returning to a field he first embraced as a graduate student at MIT 50 years ago: quantum mechanics.

PSFC News

Portrait of Theo Mouratidis standing in front of young birch trees on the MIT campus.

May 3, 2021

Theo Mouratidis: Going to extremes

When he entered the Museo Galieo, Theo Mouratidis was not expecting to make a life-changing decision.

PSFC News

April 30, 2021

Robert Griffin elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The NAS has elected 120 new members and 30 international associates, including five professors from MIT — Dan Freedman, Robert Griffin, Larry Guth, Stephen Morris, and Gigliola Staffilani — in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.Membership is one of the highest honors that a scientist can achieve.

MIT News

Image of Aaron Rosenthal with diagnostic

April 26, 2021

Candid-camera capture

MIT graduate student Aaron Rosenthal and colleagues from PPPL use a pinhole camera technique to answer questions about what is happening in the edge of hot plasmas confined in tokamaks.

PSFC News

April 20, 2021

Benjamin Reichelt awarded special Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship

Benjamin Reichelt, a second-year Physics PhD candidate with MIT’s PSFC, has been awarded the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF).

PSFC News

April 12, 2021

On course to create a fusion power plant

Since taking on course 22.63 (Principles of Fusion Engineering) over a decade ago Prof. Dennis Whyte has moved away from standard lectures, prodding the class to work collectively on “real world” issues. The course has been instrumental in guiding the real future of fusion at the PSFC.

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