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Released: 4-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Research on the DIII-D National User Facility and Small-scale Experiments
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for nine projects that are focused on advancing innovative fusion technology and collaborative research on small-scale experiments and on the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, an Office of Science scientific user facility. The projects will be executed under 16 awards at 13 institutions across the nation.

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Newswise: PPPL wins three major DOE awards for supercomputing fusion projects
Released: 1-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
PPPL wins three major DOE awards for supercomputing fusion projects
 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Description of the three PPPL-led SciDAC collaborations that unite fusion scientists and and applied mathematicians to solve complex fusion problems through supercomputing.

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Newswise: U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research
Released: 1-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research
 University of California San Diego

With a $7.4 million DOE grant award, a multi-institutional team of data scientists from General Atomics, the San Diego Supercomputer Center and UC San Diego, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Sapientai will develop a Fusion Data Platform for advancing high-priority fusion research.

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Released: 31-Aug-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $29 Million for Research on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29 million in funding for seven team awards for research in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data resources for fusion energy sciences.

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Newswise: Promising approaches to combatting tokamak disruptions presented at global PPPL-hosted workshop
Released: 23-Aug-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Promising approaches to combatting tokamak disruptions presented at global PPPL-hosted workshop
 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

An overview of recent developments for coping with damaging disruptions in doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities.

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Newswise: Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic
Released: 21-Aug-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic
 Harvard Medical School

Artificial intelligence's impact goes beyond clinical medicine. It is reshaping science in more profound ways.

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Newswise: Scientists discover shortcut that aids the design of twisty fusion facilities
Released: 17-Aug-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Scientists discover shortcut that aids the design of twisty fusion facilities
 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists have found a mathematical shortcut that could help harness fusion energy, a potential source of clean electricity that could mitigate floods, heat waves, and other rising effects of climate change.

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Released: 14-Aug-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $112 Million for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations among fusion scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists to maximize the use of high performance computing, including exascale computers.

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Newswise: A record six public-private partnership grants to speed the development of fusion energy awarded to PPPL
Released: 11-Aug-2023 10:55 AM EDT
A record six public-private partnership grants to speed the development of fusion energy awarded to PPPL
 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Article describes the unprecedented six DOE-backed INFUSE partnerships awarded to PPPL.

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Newswise: Five ORNL scientists to receive DOE Early Career Research awards
Released: 4-Aug-2023 12:00 PM EDT
Five ORNL scientists to receive DOE Early Career Research awards
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since its inception in 2010, the Early Career Research program bolsters national scientific discovery by supporting early career researchers in fields pertaining to the Office of Science.

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Released: 2-Aug-2023 1:25 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $28.5 Million for LaserNetUS
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced $28.5 million for LaserNetUS to advance discovery science and inertial fusion energy.

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Released: 26-Jul-2023 12:30 PM EDT
DOE Announces $33 Million to Advance Energy Research Across America
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $33 million to support 14 clean-energy research projects as part of a program to ensure the Department’s research funding is reaching pockets of the country that traditionally have received disproportionally low amounts of Federal scientific funding. The projects will cover a range of topics—including grid integration, renewable solar and wind energy, and advanced manufacturing. Today’s funding will help ensure all regions of the country share in the ownership of priority research that advances science and addresses energy and environmental issues as the country moves ahead to reach the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious climate goals.

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Released: 25-Jul-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $4.6 Million for Research on Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.6 million in funding for 18 projects at national laboratories and U.S. universities. The awards are provided through the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy, or INFUSE, program, which was established in 2019. The program is sponsored by the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program office within DOE’s Office of Science and is focused on accelerating fusion energy development through public-private research partnerships.

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Released: 17-Jul-2023 1:10 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $5.25 Million for Research on High Energy Density Plasmas
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced $5.25 million for 11 research projects in High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP).

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Newswise: PPPL makes critical contributions to historic public-private partnership
Released: 6-Jul-2023 4:05 PM EDT
PPPL makes critical contributions to historic public-private partnership
 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory confirms achievement of 100 million degree plasma, the heat required for commercial fusion energy production, in the UK Tokamak Energy's compact spherical ST40 tokamak.

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Released: 27-Jun-2023 2:05 PM EDT
DOE and Sweden Sign Joint Implementation Agreement to Increase Scientific Cooperation
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Department of Energy (DOE) today signed an implementation agreement with Sweden to further promote and facilitate basic science research in energy and related fields.

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Newswise: US-Japan fusion materials collaboration marks 40 years of progress
Released: 27-Jun-2023 1:15 PM EDT
US-Japan fusion materials collaboration marks 40 years of progress
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Creating energy the way the sun and stars do — through nuclear fusion — is one of the grand challenges facing science and technology. What’s easy for the sun and its billions of relatives turns out to be particularly difficult on Earth. On Earth, scientists must generate, confine and sustain a superhot gas called plasma — heated to 10 times the temperature of the center of the sun — to cause a fusion reaction. Although terrestrial plasmas can be confined magnetically, what materials can withstand near such high temperatures and the relentless impact of energetic neutrons? That question is central to the development of economical fusion power plants to provide abundant and carbon-free energy. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been working with Japanese scientists under the Japan-U.S. Fusion Cooperation Program for decades to determine the answer.

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Newswise: Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence
Released: 21-Jun-2023 3:20 PM EDT
Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Creating efficient, self-sustaining fusion power requires good confinement of the heat in the plasma. This requires understanding particle and energy losses due to turbulence. A new analysis studied the complex interaction in turbulence between the slow, large-scale motion of hydrogen fuel ions and the fast, small-scale motion of electrons. It found that this so-called “multi-scale turbulence” is mostly responsible for the heat losses in the edge region of tokamak experiments.

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Released: 31-May-2023 6:10 PM EDT
DOE Announces $46 Million for Commercial Fusion Energy Development
 Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $46 million in funding to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants, representing a major step in President Biden’s commitment to a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion within a decade. Fusion reactions power the stars, and research is underway to make fusion energy production on Earth possible, providing an abundant, inherently safe, non-carbon-emitting energy source for the planet. This funding from the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program will solidify U.S. leadership in fusion commercialization, a gamechanger that would help the United States meet the President’s goal of reaching a net-zero economy by 2050.

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Newswise: Small Fusion Experiment Hits Temperatures Hotter than the Sun’s Core
Released: 30-May-2023 9:50 AM EDT
Small Fusion Experiment Hits Temperatures Hotter than the Sun’s Core
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Future commercial fusion power plants will need to achieve temperatures of 100 million degrees C, which requires careful control of the plasma. Researchers have now achieved these temperatures on a compact spherical tokamak called ST40. The results are a step toward fusion pilot plants and the development of more compact, and potentially more economical, fusion power sources.

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