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PPPL physicist Masaaki Yamada helped create the field of laboratory astrophysics.

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Joseph Labrum, a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, spent his summer internship building components to upgrade an experiment that successfully compared physical objects without learning anything about the objects themselves. Such a “zero-knowledge protocol” system is a promising first step toward a technique that could possibly be used in future disarmament agreements, pending the results of further development, testing, and evaluation. While important questions remain, it might have potential application to verify that nuclear warheads are in fact true warheads without revealing classified information.

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Article describes multinational contract to study prediction and avoidance of disruptions on South Korea's KSTAR tokamak

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Intern Mark Thom, an engineering graduate student at Howard University, helped get a robotic arm on the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory operational during a summer internship at PPPL.

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Article describes successful demonstration of cryptographic technique that may have applicability to future nuclear disarmament agreements.

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Undergraduate women in physics and other STEM fields are encouraged to apply for the 2017 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) Mid-Atlantic regional conference Jan. 13 to 15 at Princeton University. The conference will focus on workshops aimed at providing tools to encourage women to remain in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The application deadline is Oct. 14.

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Hanna Schamis was inspired to pursue a graduate degree in plasma physics by her summer internship at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). In her graduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she plans to continue research she did this summer at PPPL. Schamis studied the effect of plasma on materials that could be used in fusion devices to protect them from the intense heat of plasmas, which can reach temperatures of up to 100 million degrees. She did the research on a device called the Material Analysis and Particle Probe (MAPP). The device is attached to the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade. MAPP allows scientists to expose materials to a plasma during an experiment and analyze them in a vacuum chamber that is part of the device.

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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have successfully tested a new device that will lead to a better understanding of the interactions between ultrahot plasma contained within fusion facilities and the materials inside those facilities.

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) summer Max Wallace was once a programmer who worked for Silicon Valley. Wallace used his talents to develop a software tool that gives scientists a snapshot of plasma experiments on PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U).

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Article describes spherical tokamaks as models for next-generation fusion facilities

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Article describes spherical tokamaks as models for the next steps in fusion energy.

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Article describes new center to explore the causes and mitigation of runaway electrons.

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Physicists have learned which conditions within fusion plasma make the occurrence of chirping modes more likely.

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Article describes new PPPL contract for research on EAST tokamak.

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Article describes new books by PPPL physicists.

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Article describes application of quantum mechanics and special relativity to plasma physics.

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Article describes Intel-sponsored project to modernize a fusion code that is installed on supercomputers around the world.

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Terry Brog is the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's new deputy director for operations. Brog has decades of experience in senior leadership, most recently as manager of the Strategic Projects Division within the Facilities and Operations division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington.

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Article describes new nanolaboratory commissioned at PPPL.

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The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has received two national awards for its green purchasing program, adding to a long list of honors for PPPL's environmental programs.

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Article describes winners of the 2016 Landau-Spitzer Award and the nature of their research.

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Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University has for the first time performed computer simulations indicating the efficiency of a start-up technique for doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks. The simulations show that the technique, known as coaxial helicity injection (CHI), could also benefit tokamaks that use superconducting magnets.

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Physicist Egemen Kolemen, who has dual appointments at both Princeton University and PPPL, has been awarded funding from the DOE's Early Career Research Program. The grant, covering five years and totaling almost $850,000, will support research on how to monitor and control instabilities within fusion machines known as tokamaks.

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Well-known physicist Ronald C. Davis, a pioneer in plasma physics, former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and MIT's Plasma Fusion Center, and the author of four textbooks on plasma physics, died on May 19.

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Article describes addition of powerful neutral beam injector to upgrade the Lithium Tokamak Experiment.

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Article describes new finding of the composition of the bootstrap current at the edge of fusion plasmas.

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This piece describes a new method for controlling plasma rotation to limit instabilities that can halt fusion reactions.

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Article describes successful test of liquid lithium limiter on China's EAST tokamak.

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The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory hosted a Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for 575 girls. The conference is aimed at sparking young women's interest in STEM and encouraging them to consider STEM careers. Women still lag behind men in STEM careers, especially in certain fields such as computer science, physics, and engineering.

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Physicist Tyler Abrams has led experiments on a facility in the Netherlands called Magnum-PSI showing that combining lithium with the hydrogen isotope deuterium substantially reduced lithium erosion.

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Article describes possible new paradigm for inertial confinement fusion technique.

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An advance look at PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM March 18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Princeton University's Frick Chemistry Laboratory.

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Article describes Princeton University physicist's laboratory at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that will search for Big Bang neutrinos.

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The DOE's Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences Ed Synakowski discusses key discoveries in the quest to develop fusion energy as a clean, affordable, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of generating electric energy.

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Fifity middle school boys came to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on March 4 for a half-day of hands-on science activities. The event was one of many National Week at the Labs events taking place Feb. 29 to March 4 as part of President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Program. The initiative is aimed at supporting and inspiring boys and young men of color to succeed in school and go on to college and successful careers.

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Engineers at PPPL have developed an updated version of a key electronic component that helps regulate the current that powers the coils in PPPL's recently completed National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade.

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PPPL inventors won an award for their invention of an on-demand method to create a badly needed isotope used routinely in medical imaging for diagnosis.

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This winter, a group of past and present PPPL graduate students collaborated on a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum that explores the connections between art and physics.

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Article describes the Digital Coil Protection System that safeguards the Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade at PPPL.

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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) appear to have gained important new insights into what affects turbulence within tokamaks, which can impact the leakage of heat from the fusion plasma. Understanding how fusion plasmas lose heat is crucial because the more a plasma is able to retain its heat the more efficient a fusion reactor can be.

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicists collaborating on the Wendelstein 7-X (W 7-X) stellarator fusion energy device in Greifswald, Germany were on hand for the Feb. 3 celebration when German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed a button to produce a hydrogen-fueled superhot gas called a plasma.

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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), who collaborate with the Max Planck Institute in Germany on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy reactor, congratulated the team for starting its scientific investigations on fusion energy by producing its first hydrogen plasma on Feb. 3.

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Shannon Greco, a science education program leader at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been named one of the YWCA Princeton’s “women of excellence” for her work with young women and disadvantaged youth, including her help in starting two all-girls robotics teams for the YWCA Princeton.

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Fusion energy is natural, safe, environmentally-friendly, conservation- friendly, and international. Here are 10 facts you should know about fusion energy.

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Feature describes modeling of laser-produced plasmas that closely approximate the plasma in astrophysical objects.

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This piece describes five leading scientific and engineering PPPL accomplishments of the past year.

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Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have finished designing a novel component for the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator, which recently opened at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Griefswald, Germany.

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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

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Article describes mechanism that halts solar eruptions

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PPPL physicists win Torkil Jensen Award to conduct key experiments on DIII-D