The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded PPPL funding of more than $12 million to conduct experimental research in fusion energy science.
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently received a 2022 Edison Patent Award for their invention of a liquid centrifuge that could be used to treat waste streams and extract valuable solids from mining tailings.
The researchers received the award for industrial…
Advising the director of the United States Office of Science on complex scientific and technical matters linked to fusion
Record laboratory attendance delivers full-scale contributions
Strengthening education, training, and outreach programs in nuclear fusion research all over the world
Leadership roles in two U.S. Department of Energy projects
Proposing the source of sudden thermal quenches.
A key step in designing lasers to ignite reactions
Award honors wide-ranging work
Protecting internal parts and helping maintain fusion reactions
Counter-intuitive way to stabilize tearing modes.
PPPL and Steve Cowley, PPPL’s director, were featured on the July 23 “CBS Saturday Morning”
Supporting new quantum information and microelectronics research
Built using material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance
Updating models to make fusion calculations more accurate