Worldwide Stellarator Research Goes Virtual
Article describes weekly virtual stellarator conferences held in lieu of annual face-to-face meeting because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
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Groundbreaking University of Maryland physicist wins Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship to bring her mathematical skills to PPPL
Article profiles standout doctoral graduate who has developed a unique mathematical means to facilitate the development of stellarator fusion facilities.
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Lehigh University graduate student wins DOE award to conduct thesis research at PPPL
Article profiles Vincent Graber, his research interests and thesis plans.
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Return of the Blob: Scientists find surprising link to troublesome turbulence at the edge of fusion plasmas
Correlation discovered between magnetic turbulence in fusion plasmas and troublesome blobs at the plasma edge.
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Applying mathematics to accelerate predictions for capturing fusion energy to predict the behavior of fusion plasma
PPPL scientists have borrowed a technique from applied mathematics to rapidly predict the behavior of fusion plasma at a much-reduced computational cost.
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Kat Royston: Finding excitement in nuclear physics
As a teenager, Kat Royston discovered that physics could give her answers to her questions about the ways the world works. Now, as a researcher in ORNL’s Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, she works on unraveling the mysteries of fission and fusion around the world – including research for the ITER and JET fusion experiments.
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Moving on Up, to the Top for Fusion Power
Researchers have demonstrated a new approach for injecting microwaves into a tokamak fusion device. In a fusion electron-cyclotron current drive (ECCD), microwaves help stabilize the plasma while the tokamak heats the plasma on the path to fusion. The new approach to ECCD is twice as efficient as previous approaches.
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Magnetic Ripples Calm the Surface of Fusion Plasmas
The ITER fusion reactor being built in the south of France will use rippled magnetic fields to prevent bursts of heat and particles that can damage the walls of the reactor. Now, physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the DIII-D national fusion facility have compared computer simulations of the DIII-D plasma with experimental measurements to better understand how controlled magnetic ripples outside the plasma can suppress these bursts.
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ORNL team builds portable diagnostic for fusion experiments from off-the-shelf items
The techniques Theodore Biewer and his colleagues are using to measure whether plasma has the right conditions to create fusion have been around awhile.
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Story Tips: Fusion squeeze, global image mapping, computing mental health and sodium batteries
Story Tips: Fusion squeeze, global image mapping, computing mental health and sodium batteries
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Accelerating the Development of Nuclear Fusion
Researchers from TAE Technologies used the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to support their fusion research. The company is working to develop the world’s first fusion device that can generate electricity and is commercially viable.
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Bank on it: Gains in one type of force produced by fusion disruptions are offset by losses in another
Simulations show that halo currents can serve as a proxy for the total force produced by vertical disruptions.
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