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

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

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Profile describes new role for plasma physicist Jongsoo Yoo and the high-profile magnetic reconnection device he oversees.

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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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Scientists have used a recently developed technique to improve predictions of the timing and intensity of the solar wind’s strikes, which sometimes disrupt telecommunications satellites and damage electrical grids.

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Ensuring that countries abide by future nuclear arms agreements will be a vital task. Now, PPPL researchers have helped devise an automated way to ensure compliance.

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Laszlo Horvath, an early career physicist at PPPL, is the winner of the 2022 Károly Simonyi Memorial Plaque from the Hungarian Nuclear Society.

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Suying Jin, who is entering her sixth and planned final year as a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, won Princeton University’s honorific Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year.

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PPPL hosted a workshop on fusion energy and nuclear nonproliferation at Princeton University on Jan. 25 and 26. Participants included representatives from government, national laboratories, Princeton University, other academic institutions, and private fusion developers.

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PPPL scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know.

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The first laboratory realization of the long-standing but never-before confirmed theory of the puzzling formation of planets, stars and supermassive black holes by swirling surrounding matter has been produced at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

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Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory uncover the long-hidden process that helps explain why the Sun's corona can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.

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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded PPPL funding of more than $12 million to work with laboratories around the world to accelerate the development of a pilot plant powered by the carbon-free fusion energy that drives the sun and stars and can counter climate change.

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He has been named a member of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, which advises the director of the United States Office of Science on complex scientific and technical matters related to America’s fusion energy sciences research program.

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Physicist Stefano Munaretto of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has received leadership roles in two DOE three-year awards.

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PPPL scientists propose an explanation for the thermal quench, the sudden heat loss that precedes disruptions in doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities.

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Story describes a key step for designing lasers to ignite reactions.

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Scientists at have conducted research showing that a PPPL-developed powder dropper can successfully drop boron powder into high-temperature plasma within tokamaks that have parts made of a heat-resistant material known as tungsten.