Our fusion future
Brutal heat waves marked the summer of 2022, which brought us the hottest July ever recorded in the United States. Scientists and experts regard global warming as the crisis of our time, and with fossil Continue Reading →
Category: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Reaching for the stars
By John Greenwald Fusion is the reaction that drives the sun and stars, generating massive amounts of energy. At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists seek to replicate fusion on Earth with the goal Continue Reading →
Public-private partnerships propel fusion research
The quest to develop a safe, clean and virtually limitless source of energy for the future has brought the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) into partnership with private companies. PPPL has teamed with five technology companies in the United States, Canada and Great Britain to unlock the potential of fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, to meet humanity’s ever-growing electricity needs. Continue Reading →
AI accelerates fusion energy research
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are using AI to forecast disruptions that can halt fusion reactions. Continue Reading →
From Math to Meaning. Artificial intelligence blends algorithms and applications
By Kevin McElwee Artificial intelligence is already a part of everyday life. It helps us answer questions like “Is this email spam?” It identifies friends in online photographs, selects news stories based on our politics Continue Reading →
Discovery provides a path to safe, clean, plentiful energy
By John Greenwald Fusion — the energy-producing reaction that powers our sun and most stars — can be a safe, clean and virtually limitless source for generating electricity on Earth, ending reliance on fossil fuels and Continue Reading →
Exploring collective interactions of matter and antimatter
STRIP AWAY ELECTRONS FROM THEIR ATOMS and you get a plasma — a collection of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions. But at high energies around compact cosmic objects such as black holes, quasars Continue Reading →
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: The quest for clean energy continues
FUSION — the energy-making process that powers the sun — could provide us with a near limitless source of energy, ending our dependence on fossil fuels for making electricity. This summer, after a nearly three-year Continue Reading →
A farewell to arms? New technique could aid nuclear disarmament
SCIENTISTS at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are developing a system to verify the presence of nuclear warheads without collecting classified information, as a step toward the Continue Reading →
Star formation, black holes focus of new research
TWO NEW RESEARCH NETWORKS IN ASTROPHYSICS got off the ground this year, one to explore how stars form and the other to study how black holes accumulate matter, with the goal of answering fundamental questions Continue Reading →
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: Blazing a path to fusion energy
Ask researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to name one of the greatest science and engineering challenges ever undertaken and the answer comes easily: harnessing fusion energy. Fusion happens Continue Reading →
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