NEWS: Magnetic fusion energy

March 9, 2018

3Q: Zach Hartwig on MIT's big push on fusion

Today, MIT announced plans to work with a newly formed company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), to realize the promise of fusion as a source of unlimited, safe, carbon-free energy. 

MIT News

September 25, 2017

VIDEO: Leigh Ann Kesler: Tracking erosion happening inside fusion devices

NSE PhD student, Leigh Ann Kesler who studies at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dates her interest in fusion from an 11th-grade persuasive writing assignment. Inspired in part by her father’s interest in the potential of nuclear energy, she decided to investigate fusion.

July 21, 2016

VIDEO: Alcator C-Mod 360 degree video tour

Take a 360 degree video tour of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, the fusion experiment at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

March 8, 2016

VIDEO: Breakthrough in Fusion?

PSFC Director, Dennis Whyte spoke at the MIT Club of Northern California — Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy generation because by fusing two hydrogen atoms together into a single helium atom it releases enormous amounts of energy, yet represents a clean, safe, sustainable and secure form of power.

November 3, 2015

VIDEO: An 8T plasma discharge at the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

View and sound of plasma during a 2-second shot in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

March 18, 2013

VIDEO: TEDxBeaconStreet: Bringing a Star to Earth for Energy

In this future-facing TEDxBeaconStreet talk, Dennis Whyte talks through the development of a revolutionary energy device that can change our world in a very big way.