NEWS: Plasma material interactions

April 6, 2022

Turning neutrons into fusion fuel

“One of the things that you get good at while at MIT,” says PSFC research scientist Sara Ferry, “is being able to start from nothing on a particular system or skill and knowing how to approach it in a way that’s effective.”

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October 22, 2021

Alessandro Marinoni: Returning to fusion’s D-turn

Alessandro Marinoni has continued to examine an innovative plasma shape, dubbed “negative triangularity,” extending previous research to configurations more compatible with the plasma environment of a reactor. 

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August 18, 2021

Steven Jepeal wins second place prize in Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D awards

MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) graduate student Steven Jepeal has been awarded a Second Place prize in the 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards.

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July 9, 2021

Magnet Man

After overseeing three years of research and development, Brian LaBombard is ready to test a toroidal field model coil (TFMC), a prototype for those that will be used in the new fusion experiment, SPARC.

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August 12, 2020

Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and LED batons

Rising sophomore Lauryn Kortman is working on a future fusion project, ARC, that embodies her own entrepreneurial spirit.

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April 10, 2020

Exploring novel and low-cost approaches to creating fusion energy

MIT experience with heating plasmas will support novel and low-cost approaches to creating fusion energy.

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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.