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Newswise: New Laboratory-Wide Organization Advances the Development of Fusion Energy Science at PPPL
Released: 19-May-2022 4:10 PM EDT
New Laboratory-Wide Organization Advances the Development of Fusion Energy Science at PPPL
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Major overhaul of a collaborative department aims to enhance PPPL’s role as the U.S. national laboratory devoted to the science of fusion energy.

Newswise: Researchers Design Simpler Magnets for Twisty Facilities That Could Lead to Steady-State Fusion Operation
Released: 28-Apr-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Researchers Design Simpler Magnets for Twisty Facilities That Could Lead to Steady-State Fusion Operation
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Harnessing the power that makes the sun and stars shine could be made easier by powerful magnets with straighter shapes than have been made before. Researchers linked to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found a way to create such magnets for fusion facilities known as stellarators.

Newswise: A roadmap for deepening understanding of a puzzling universal process
Released: 22-Apr-2022 12:35 PM EDT
A roadmap for deepening understanding of a puzzling universal process
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have detailed a roadmap for untangling a key aspect of magnetic recognition that could deepen insight into the workings of the cosmos.

Newswise: Validating models for next-generation fusion facilities with the PPPL flagship
Released: 12-Apr-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Validating models for next-generation fusion facilities with the PPPL flagship
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) at PPPL could serve as the model for a fusion energy pilot plant.

Newswise: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Joins Brookhaven Lab’s Quantum Center
Released: 1-Apr-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Joins Brookhaven Lab’s Quantum Center
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL becomes first institutional affiliate of new center for quantum-based applications in computing, communication, and sensing to benefit national security, economic competitiveness, and leadership in scientific discovery.

Newswise: Former intern Amelia Chambliss speaks out on diversity, equity, and what she learned from her internship at PPPL at White House summit on fusion energy
Released: 21-Mar-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Former intern Amelia Chambliss speaks out on diversity, equity, and what she learned from her internship at PPPL at White House summit on fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Amelia Chambliss, a recent Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, discussed the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and public outreach at the White House fusion energy summit.

Newswise: White House summit brings national energy leaders together to forge a path to accelerate fusion electricity
Released: 21-Mar-2022 4:05 PM EDT
White House summit brings national energy leaders together to forge a path to accelerate fusion electricity
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Steve Cowley, PPPL director, was among climate and energy experts from national laboratories, universities, private industry, government agencies, and congressional representatives gathered together on March 17 at the first ever White House summit, “Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy,” organized by the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Newswise: PPPL’s apprenticeship program ramps up for 2022
Released: 16-Mar-2022 10:00 AM EDT
PPPL’s apprenticeship program ramps up for 2022
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL is now accepting applications for its latest cohort of apprentices for fields including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, information technology, welding, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HAC).

Newswise: PPPL findings could lead to ever-more powerful microchips and supercomputers
Released: 7-Mar-2022 5:05 PM EST
PPPL findings could lead to ever-more powerful microchips and supercomputers
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A description of the Laboratory's process to extend Moore's law that has doubled the number of transistors that can be packed on a microchip roughly every two years and develop new ways to produce ever-more capable, efficient, and cost-effective chips.

Newswise: Innovative new magnet could facilitate development of fusion and medical devices
Released: 3-Mar-2022 9:55 AM EST
Innovative new magnet could facilitate development of fusion and medical devices
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL scientists have designed a new type of magnet that could aid devices ranging from doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks to medical machines that create detailed pictures of the human body.

Newswise: PPPL examines the performance of a fusion pilot plant to generate electricity
Released: 28-Feb-2022 4:00 PM EST
PPPL examines the performance of a fusion pilot plant to generate electricity
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The first detailed look at both a pilot plant and a comprehensive research facility.

Newswise: White House and U.S. Department of Energy leaders meet at PPPL to discuss accelerating timeline to produce electricity from fusion energy
Released: 21-Feb-2022 4:15 PM EST
White House and U.S. Department of Energy leaders meet at PPPL to discuss accelerating timeline to produce electricity from fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Top officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently to discuss how to accelerate the development of fusion energy as a clean, abundant, and safe way to generate electricity.

Newswise: A breakthrough once described as impossible brings a fusion energy device closer to realization
Released: 15-Feb-2022 11:20 AM EST
A breakthrough once described as impossible brings a fusion energy device closer to realization
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Article profiles path-setting technique for improving the design of twisty stellarator fusion facilities.

Newswise: PPPL collaborations support the recent European production of historic fusion power
Released: 11-Feb-2022 4:05 PM EST
PPPL collaborations support the recent European production of historic fusion power
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A close-up look at the PPPL collaboration that helped set the stage for JET's recent record output that advances the development of safe and clean fusion power.

Newswise: Scientists successfully model a fast-action method for countering disruptions on ITER
Released: 9-Feb-2022 10:20 AM EST
Scientists successfully model a fast-action method for countering disruptions on ITER
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Simulation of a novel particle injector shows its potential to mitigate a major challenge to the international fusion experiment going up in France.

Newswise: PPPL hosts online tour for more than 125 female undergraduates to kick off online CUWiP Conference
Released: 7-Feb-2022 4:35 PM EST
PPPL hosts online tour for more than 125 female undergraduates to kick off online CUWiP Conference
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The 2022 College and University Women in Physics Conference kicked off with a virtual tour led by a science educator, a physicist and an engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Newswise: New Insight Into Blobs Improves Understanding of a Universal Process
Released: 4-Feb-2022 9:30 AM EST
New Insight Into Blobs Improves Understanding of a Universal Process
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL researchers have gained insight into a fundamental process found throughout the universe. This insight could help scientists predict enormous burps of plasma from the sun that could threaten satellites and electrical grids on Earth.

Newswise: New public-private partnership comes to PPPL through a novel program to speed the development of fusion energy
Released: 31-Jan-2022 12:15 PM EST
New public-private partnership comes to PPPL through a novel program to speed the development of fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL's machine learning expertise is aiding French company Renaissance Fusion through a unique U.S. Department of Energy program.

Newswise: Plasma physicist and innovative science educator Arturo Dominguez is PPPL’s new head of Science Education
Released: 26-Jan-2022 12:05 PM EST
Plasma physicist and innovative science educator Arturo Dominguez is PPPL’s new head of Science Education
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Arturo Dominguez, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL) new head of Science Education, is a plasma physicist who has been a science educator at PPPL for nearly 10 years.

Newswise: Go on a science adventure with PPPL’s Science on Saturday Lecture series
Released: 12-Jan-2022 2:05 PM EST
Go on a science adventure with PPPL’s Science on Saturday Lecture series
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Science on Saturday lecture series features cutting-edge science talks by researchers from around the country. It will be held online again this year beginning Jan. 29

Newswise: Common household cleaner can boost effort to harvest fusion energy on Earth
Released: 11-Jan-2022 2:40 PM EST
Common household cleaner can boost effort to harvest fusion energy on Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Path-setting findings demonstrate for the first time a novel regime for confining heat in stellarators. The demonstration could advance the twisty design as a blueprint for future fusion power plants.

Newswise: Scientists at PPPL and Princeton University demonstrate a novel rocket for deep-space exploration
Released: 22-Dec-2021 12:15 PM EST
Scientists at PPPL and Princeton University demonstrate a novel rocket for deep-space exploration
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The growing interest in deep-space exploration has sparked the need for powerful long-lived rocket systems to drive spacecraft through the cosmos. Scientists at PPPL have developed a tiny version of a Hall thruster propulsion system that increases the lifetime of the rocket and produces high power.

Newswise: Trio of physicists honored for findings that could accelerate harnessing on Earth the power that drives the sun and stars
Released: 21-Dec-2021 12:15 PM EST
Trio of physicists honored for findings that could accelerate harnessing on Earth the power that drives the sun and stars
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Profiles of the three PPPL physicists who have won the 2021 Kaul Foundation award and their path-setting work to reproduce fusion energy on Earth.

Newswise: Veteran PPPL engineer Tim Stevenson receives Distinguished Engineering Fellow award
Released: 21-Dec-2021 11:35 AM EST
Veteran PPPL engineer Tim Stevenson receives Distinguished Engineering Fellow award
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Tim Stevenson, an engineer who has been an integral part of major experiments in his 37-year career at PPPL, was named a Distinguished Engineering Fellow for his contributions to two flagship experiments in the drive to bring to Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars.

Newswise: PPPL unravels a puzzle to speed the development of fusion energy
Released: 20-Dec-2021 2:05 PM EST
PPPL unravels a puzzle to speed the development of fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Profile of path-setting method to simulate the crazy-quilt movement of free electrons during experimental efforts to harness on Earth the fusion power that drives the sun and stars. The method cracks a complex equation that can enable improved control of the random and fast-moving moving electrons in the fuel for fusion energy.

Newswise: David McComas, Princeton University vice president for PPPL, to receive prestigious medal for space plasma physics research
Released: 17-Dec-2021 2:55 PM EST
David McComas, Princeton University vice president for PPPL, to receive prestigious medal for space plasma physics research
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

David McComas, Princeton University vice president for PPPL, has won a prestigious award for his space plasma research, including leading or taking part in dozens of NASa missions.

Newswise: PPPL continues efforts to expand research portfolio by hiring David Zimmerman to its Strategic Partnership Office
Released: 13-Dec-2021 2:00 PM EST
PPPL continues efforts to expand research portfolio by hiring David Zimmerman to its Strategic Partnership Office
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

David Zimmerman, a patent attorney and former physicist, is leading PPPL's new Strategic Partnership Office

Newswise: Research reveals how plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light
Released: 9-Dec-2021 10:10 AM EST
Research reveals how plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL researchers have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously unexplained emissions of light and heat. These findings can increase basic understanding of fundamental astrophysical processes throughout the universe.

Newswise: Fusion’s role in fighting climate change
Released: 6-Dec-2021 5:05 PM EST
Fusion’s role in fighting climate change
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Physicists Robert Goldston and Jacob Schwartz present a broad overview of the development of fusion energy on Earth and relate it to the mitigation of climate change.

Newswise: Shaping up nicely: Adjusting the plasma edge can improve the performance of a star on Earth
Released: 3-Dec-2021 11:05 AM EST
Shaping up nicely: Adjusting the plasma edge can improve the performance of a star on Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

While trying out a new device that injects powder to clean up the walls of the world’s largest stellarator, scientists were pleased to find that the bits of atoms confined by magnetic fields within the device got temporarily hotter after each injection, leading to better fusion performance.

Released: 30-Nov-2021 12:20 PM EST
PPPL speakers and discoveries prominent at 2021 global plasma physics gathering
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Review of Laboratory's contributions to the 62nd annual conference of the American Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics.

Released: 23-Nov-2021 4:30 PM EST
PPPL postdoctoral physicist Min-Gu Yoo wins international research award
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Min-Gu Yoo, a postdoctoral physicist in the Theory Department at PPPL, won an Under 40 Young Researcher Award from the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies-Division of Plasma Physics for his research on ohmic breakdown in tokamaks.

Released: 23-Nov-2021 4:30 PM EST
Plasma physics graduate student Eduardo Rodriguez wins prestigious Fellowship
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Eduardo Rodriguez, a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics at PPPL, details how he feels about winning a highly selective Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship from Princeton University and his current research on quasisymmetric stellarators.

Released: 18-Nov-2021 6:05 PM EST
PPPL wins state recycling award
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory celebrated America Recycles Day this week after recently winning a state Recycling Leadership Award for its recycling and sustainability programs.

Newswise: PPPL scientists produce insights into perhaps the most extreme state of matter created on Earth
Released: 18-Nov-2021 3:05 PM EST
PPPL scientists produce insights into perhaps the most extreme state of matter created on Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Article describes ground-breaking insight into measuring laser-produced high energy density plasmas.

Newswise: A focus on fusion energy and PPPL’s expanded mission during U.S. Energy Secretary’s visit
Released: 17-Nov-2021 6:20 PM EST
A focus on fusion energy and PPPL’s expanded mission during U.S. Energy Secretary’s visit
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently paid a visit to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory where she met with staff, took a virtual tour of the Laboratory, and learned more about PPPL's primary mission of developing fusion energy as clean and abundant source of electricity as well as expanded research directions exploring plasma applications in microelectronics and sustainability and advanced computing.

Released: 11-Nov-2021 12:05 PM EST
PPPL expert details plans for a fusion pilot plant for presidential advisors
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Article describes presentation to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology the report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that calls for rapidly assembling public, private and university partnerships to carry out plans for an electricity-generating pilot plant.

Newswise: New insights into heat pathways improve understanding of fusion plasma
Released: 20-Oct-2021 10:05 AM EDT
New insights into heat pathways improve understanding of fusion plasma
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Researchers at PPPL have made simple changes to equations that model the movement of heat in plasma. The changes improve insights that could help engineers avoid the conditions that could lead to heat loss in future fusion facilities.

Newswise: Plasma to the rescue: Scientists develop a path-setting method to enable vast applications for a promising nanomaterial
Released: 19-Oct-2021 8:50 AM EDT
Plasma to the rescue: Scientists develop a path-setting method to enable vast applications for a promising nanomaterial
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PPPL and Princeton University demonstrate a novel technique for overcoming a barrier to the application of stronger-than-steel graphene for a vast array of industrial and scientific uses.

Released: 5-Oct-2021 4:20 PM EDT
Process leading to supernova explosions and cosmic radio bursts unearthed at PPPL
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A process important to black holes and supernovas has for the first time been demonstrated in a laboratory at PPPL.

Released: 27-Sep-2021 3:40 PM EDT
Renowned energy expert Emily Carter returns to Princeton to advise PPPL on sustainability science
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Emily A. Carter, former dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science, and most recently executive vice chancellor and provost at UCLA, has been named Senior Strategic Advisor for Sustainability Science at PPPL.

Released: 23-Sep-2021 4:05 PM EDT
Physicist Greg Hammett honored for his work advancing understanding of fusion plasmas
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Theoretical and computational physicist Greg Hammett, a leader in advancing understanding of the complex turbulence that controls the performance of fusion plasmas and a dedicated educator, has been named a 2021 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the DOE’s Office of Science.

Released: 22-Sep-2021 9:00 AM EDT
PPPL scientists win highly competitive awards to bring cosmic processes to Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The two awards will enable physicists to use lasers to reproduce high-energy astrophysical plasmas under extreme conditions to probe processes such as space storms that can disrupt cell phone service.

Released: 21-Sep-2021 3:45 PM EDT
Three PPPL scientists win competitive awards to conduct frontier plasma science work
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

World-class expertise in the study of plasma — the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe — has won frontier science projects for three physicists at PPPL.

Released: 16-Sep-2021 12:00 PM EDT
Scientists demonstrate pathway to forerunner of rugged nanotubes that could lead to widespread industrial fabrication
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Collaboration led by PPPL has identified a chemical pathway to an innovative nanomaterial that could lead to large-scale production for applications ranging from spacesuits to military vehicles.

Released: 15-Sep-2021 10:30 AM EDT
The Lab in the living room: Summer interns delve into plasma and fusion research from their homes
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Summer interns working for PPPL did hands-on research from their computers in their bedrooms or on their dining room tables all over the U.S. They worked closely with PPPL physicists and engineers on research aimed at understanding ionized gases called plasmas.

Released: 14-Sep-2021 2:15 PM EDT
A gem of a lab will design next-generation diamond sensors, bringing the world of quantum physics into the light
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A quantum diamond sensor that can produce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of single molecules will be developed by a collaborative venture led by PPPL.

Released: 30-Aug-2021 4:10 PM EDT
PPPL physicist helps confirm a major advance in stellarator performance for fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Results of a heat-confinement experiment on the twisty magnetic Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany could enable devices based on the W7-X design to lead to a practical fusion reactor.

Released: 30-Aug-2021 3:30 PM EDT
Updated State-of-the-Art Computer Code Could Advance Efforts to Harness Fusion Energy on Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Researchers at PPPL have used supercomputers and a state-of-the-art computer code to simulate plasma in fusion devices under a wider range of conditions than ever before.



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