To operate fusion systems safely and reliably, scientists need to monitor plasma fuel conditions and measure properties like ...

Fusion energy may be one of the most promising clean power sources of the future—but only if scientists can precisely measure the extreme, fast-moving plasmas that make it possible. A new U.S.

Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

One of the fastest supercomputers in the world, Aurora is enabling new simulations of a powerful but elusive concept: fusion ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a new project which aims to use AI to expedite fusion energy research. Shantenu Jha, the head of PPPL’s Computational ...

Despite these hurdles, tools like Stellar-AI could help scientists solve key engineering challenges faster and reduce overall ...

A new DOE-sponsored report identifies fusion diagnostics as the "holy grail" for delivering commercial clean energy ...

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

The global race for commercial nuclear fusion is accelerating, with the United States and China pulling ahead through major ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

New simulations from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory suggest that deliberately engineering plasma rotation inside tokamak fusion reactors could dramatically reduce the heat loads that destroy ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have set a new fusion record on the WEST tokamak, sustaining plasma at roughly 50 million degrees Celsius for six ...