Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located on Princeton University's Forrestal ...

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are exploring how deuterium, a potential fusion fuel, interacts with ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. And it's underway in ...

New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a minimum.

Researchers from Lam Research, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new technique to streamline the process. It uses cryogenic ...

Carbon: The hidden culprit in nuclear fuel retention. Scientists have been studying boron-coated walls in fusion reactors ...

And David McComas, vice president for the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, said Matthaeus is a “household name” in plasma physics. “Bill has made seminal discoveries and contributions ...

Fusion technology is likely far from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

Experiments like the Lithium Tokamak Experiment-Beta (LTX-β) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab suggest that a little bit of lithium in the plasma may help the plasma get up to ...

The fusion physicist Ian Chapman is to be the next head of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – the UK’s biggest public research funder. He will take up the position in June, replacing the geniticist ...