Pushing the plasma density limit | MIT News
Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers discover a path to overcoming the plasma density limit in their quest for steady-state fusion.
Aug. 23, 2018 • ~8 min
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Taming fusion with machine learning | MIT News
Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research.
July 2, 2018 • ~7 min
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Tom Fredian: Streamlining fusion data | MIT News
MIT systems analyst receives award for his essential fusion data storage and retrieval system.
June 1, 2018 • ~6 min
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Spinning data into sound | MIT News
An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion.
May 9, 2018 • ~6 min
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Fine-tuning fusion | MIT News
Postdoc Theresa Wilks finds home on the west coast, helming an MIT collaboration with the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor.
April 9, 2018 • ~5 min
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3Q: Zach Hartwig on MIT's big push on fusion | MIT News
Researchers will work with industrial collaborators to pursue fusion as a source of carbon-free power.
March 9, 2018 • ~9 min
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MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power | MIT News
Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant within 15 years.
March 9, 2018 • ~15 min
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Integrated simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research | MIT News
Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations.
Feb. 16, 2018 • ~8 min
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Changing lives with heart, humor, and engineering | MIT News
MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Nick Schwartz wants to solve the energy problem — and make people smile along the way.
Jan. 3, 2018 • ~8 min
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Study sheds light on turbulence in astrophysical plasmas | MIT News
Theoretical analysis uncovers new mechanisms in plasma turbulence.
Dec. 1, 2017 • ~7 min
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