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NSTX project will produce world's most powerful spherical torus

DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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With lithium, more is definitely better

A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has found that increasing the amount of lithium coating in the wall of an experimental fusion reactor ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 10

New probe to uncover mechanisms key to fusion reactor walls

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton University to learn precisely what happens when extremely hot plasmas touch and ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Perspective on: The future of fusion

Stewart Prager, a well-known plasma physicist and fusion scientist with a distinguished career and a record of discovery at the University of Wisconsin, arrived in January 2009 as director of PPPL, the United ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 76

Fusion scientists gear up to learn how to harness plasma energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working on an advanced experimental fusion machine are readying experiments that will investigate a host of scientific puzzles, including how heat escapes as hot magnetized plasma, ...

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created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Taming thermonuclear plasma with a snowflake

Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion research -- ...

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created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Getting to know the sun advances fusion research

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at the National Spherical ...

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created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Findings show promise for nuclear fusion test reactors

Researchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces facing the plasma inside a thermonuclear fusion reactor, part of work aimed at developing coatings capable of ...

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created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Discovery in 'pop' science reveals the elegant, complex way bubbles burst (w/ Video)

On the surface of things, how a bubble bursts may seem to be a simple, unremarkable event. In the June 10th issue of Nature, engineers at Harvard report just the opposite, having uncovered the beautifully comple ...

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created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The behemoth has a thick belt

Talk about a diet! By resolving, for the first time, features of an individual star in a neighbouring galaxy, ESO's VLT has allowed astronomers to determine that it weighs almost half of what was previously ...

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created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Finally, the 'planet' in planetary nebulae? New studies may vindicate 300-year-old astronomical 'mistake'

Astronomers at the University of Rochester, home to one of the world’s largest groups of planetary nebulae specialists, have announced that low-mass stars and possibly even super-Jupiter-sized planets may ...

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created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 0


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