New computer code could lead to simpler, less costly stellarators for fusion power
Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...
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US fusion code breakthrough slashes stellarator design time to under 10 seconds
Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have unveiled a groundbreaking computer code, QUADCOIL, that ...
Scientists Just Uncovered a Major Challenge for Fusion Power – And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are exploring how deuterium, a potential fusion fuel, interacts with ...
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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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Some fuel lodges in the inner walls of fusion vessels: Researchers now have a better idea of how much
New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a minimum.
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Startups gamble on fusion energy
Fusion technology is likely far from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.
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The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
They say fusion is 50 years away ... 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 ...
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Fusion physicist Ian Chapman to head UK Research and Innovation
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 ...
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Scientists create mind-blowing phenomenon inside first-of-its-kind energy device: 'We were all very excited'
For the first time, their Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART) fusion reactor, created with researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, successfully created plasma (the soup-like medium ...