Scientists Use Supercomputers to Study Reliable Fusion Reactor Design, Operation

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Scientists Use Supercomputers to Study Reliable Fusion Reactor Design, Operation

Nuclear fusion, the same kind of energy that fuels stars, could one day power our world with abundant, safe, and carbon-free energy. Aided by supercomputers Summit at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Theta at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), a team of scientists…

Rachel McDowellFebruary 18, 2021

Will Fox of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory examined the relationship between high-density plasma and magnetic fields. Credit: PPPL

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PPPL’s Will Fox Honored for Research on Titan

Will Fox, a research scientist at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and long-time user of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), has received the 2019 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society.…

Will WellsJuly 22, 2019

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Surprise finding: Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields

By John Greenwald, PPPL Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that this phenomenon…

Katie BetheaOctober 20, 2018

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Breakthrough Fusion Simulations Shed Light on Plasma Confinement

Using Jaguar, a research team led by William Tang of DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a clearer picture of plasma confinement properties in an experimental device that will pave the way to future commercial fusion power plants.

OLCF Staff WriterAugust 3, 2011

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