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Researchers led by Chang Liu of PPPL have unveiled a promising approach to mitigating damaging runaway electrons created by disruptions in tokamak fusion devices. Key to the approach was harnessing a ...
On December 13th America’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, announced that the country’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) had lived up to the “I” in its name, by achieving ignition. The stuff ...
Members of the Metrology Research and Development team working with the 4Pi system in a room at General Atomics headquarters. Courtesy of General Atomics Engineers and scientists at General Atomics ...
Fusion energy is being developed as a solution to global energy problems. In particular, the magnetic confinement method, in which ultra-high temperature plasma is confined by a magnetic field, is the ...
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Recent White House and Energy Department pronouncements on speeding up the “commercialization” of fusion energy are so over the top as to make you wonder about the scientific competence in the upper ...
The most exciting current subject in applied physics is “controlled fusion,” i.e., getting usable energy out of the nuclear reactions that make H-bombs explode. Industrialists looking forward to ...
Image of digital twin control, in which real plasma is controlled by virtual plasma reproduced on a computer. In this research, we developed a digital twin control system that can estimate optimal ...