Sentences with phrase «fusion facilities»

He became increasingly interested in turbulence in fusion facilities in the late 1980s and has made that the focus of most of his career.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have for the first time simulated the formation of structures called «plasmoids» during Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI), a process that could simplify the design of fusion facilities known as tokamaks.

«I already see that major fusion facilities in the United States, as well as international tokamaks, are embarking on experiments that are ideal validation tools for theory and simulation,» he said.

The award recognizes Goldston's paper describing a new model for estimating the width of the scrape - off layer — the hot plasma that is exhausted in fusion facilities called tokamaks — as the most outstanding paper published by the journal in 2012.

The Department of Energy offers several research stints, including one at its magnetic fusion facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Heitzenroeder has contributed to the design and construction of many of the world's major magnetic fusion facilities during a storied 40 - year career at PPPL that includes more than 20 years as head of the Mechanical Engineering Division.

The more instabilities there are, the less efficiently doughnut - shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks operate.

The nuclear fusion facility in Livermore, California has been under construction since 1997, but now engineers are finally ready to fire up the facility's 192 lasers, and to generate the nuclear reaction present only inside the cores of stars and exploding thermonuclear weapons.

A study by NIF on a future inertial fusion facility resulted in a conceptual design dubbed the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) plant.

The machines included ASDEX - Upgrade, in Germany; Alcator C - Mod at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DIII - D, the national fusion facility operated by General Atomics for the DOE in San Diego; the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at PPPL that has since been upgraded; and the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a component that could improve the performance of doughnut - shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.

The fact that ignition in a large American experimental inertial confinement fusion facility did not occur as hoped by Sept. 30 has sadly raised questions about the scientific legitimacy of that pursuit.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Germany have devised a new method for minimizing turbulence in bumpy donut - shaped experimental fusion facilities called stellarators.

The National Ignition Facility intends to be the first fusion facility to demonstrate ignition and gain.

The bill instructs DOE to use the extra funds to keep open the Alcator C - Mod fusion facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, which the Administration had proposed closing.

Europe's largest fusion facility, the Joint European Torus (JET), is sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a legal limbo that could halt vital research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.

The future of the Joint European Torus, the world - leading fusion facility near Oxford, U.K., remains uncertain beyond its current contract which ends in 2018.

Depending on budget scenarios, the panel suggests that one other fusion facility — the DIII - D operated by the defense firm General Atomics in San Diego or the National Spherical Torus Experiment in Princeton, New Jersey — could also face the chopping block five years later.

New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.

Heitzenroeder's 40 - member team works on all aspects of mechanical engineering for fusion facilities.

The team took office shortly after DOE had cancelled PPPL's unfinished National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX)-- now known as QUASAR — when construction costs exceeded the initial projections for the innovative fusion facility.

The upgrade began in late 2011 and will make the NSTX the most powerful fusion facility of its kind in the world when the work is completed around the end of this year.

In papers published in Physics of Plasmas in May and Physical Review Letters this month, Timothy Stoltzfus - Dueck, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), demonstrated a novel method that scientists can use to manipulate the intrinsic — or self - generated — rotation of hot, charged plasma gas within fusion facilities called tokamaks.

Spherical tokamaks are compact fusion facilities shaped like cored apples, compared with the doughnut - like shape of conventional tokamaks that are in wider use.

Prager noted further advances ranging from a new partnership between the Theory Department and the NSTX research group to new programs in astrophysics and low - temperature plasmas, new collaborations with superconducting fusion facilities around the world and new links to other parts of the University in fields that include plasma astrophysics and material sciences.

Researchers have improved plasma performance by applying lithium coatings to the walls of fusion facilities.

The computationally predicted plasmoids have been confirmed with fast - camera images inside the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), the major fusion facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); the facility has since been upgraded.

He headed the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, then the largest magnetic confinement fusion facility in the U.S., from 1991 to 1997.

The Department creates computer programs that simulate the plasma inside magnetic fusion facilities and can be used to predict how the plasma will behave under different conditions.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

Sabbagh received the Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development for his work on advancing the understanding, and enhancing the stability, of high - performance plasmas in fusion facilities called tokamaks.

Last year Bill Gates visited the cold - fusion facilities of the Italian national technology agency ENEA, but he has not invested, according to his office.

The model has proven so accurate that engineers designing ITER, an experimental nuclear fusion facility, have requested simulations of the building site in southern France.

Department officials asked the 23 FESAC members to recuse themselves if they had connections to a lab with a major fusion facility, or a lab that might benefit from the report's recommendations.

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

The findings, published online in October in Physics of Plasmas, could influence the development of future fusion facilities.

He initially performed both neutronics — the study of neutrons that emerge from plasmas — and plasma control calculations for the design of the Burning Plasma Experiment (BPX), a fusion facility that was targeted to produce about 100 - 500 megawatts of fusion power, which at a minimum would equal the heating power but was hoped to exceed it.

He soon transitioned to plasma physics research, simulating how plasmas evolve in fusion facilities, among other projects.

Specifically, the finding could help a fusion facility currently being built in France, ITER, and will be the world's largest tokamak fusion reactor when completed.

• Instabilities caused by plasma that flows faster in the center of the fusion facility than toward the edge when rotating strongly in L - mode — or low confinement — regimes.

The fusion facility resumes operating on August 28, 2017, and will investigate the suitability of its optimized magnetic fields to create steady state plasmas and to serve as a model for a future power plant for the production of a «star in a jar,» a virtually limitless source of safe and clean energy for generating electricity.

Speakers at the workshop included theorists and experimentalists from the ITER Organization, PPPL, General Atomics and several U.S. Universities, and from fusion facilities in the United Kingdom, China, Italy and India.

Stellarators are fusion facilities that confine plasma in twisty magnetic fields, compared with the symmetrical fields that tokamaks use.

Campanell models the influence of electrons that are emitted from the walls of a fusion facility during experiments.

For fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of fusion plasma and the physical walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

The method aims to make the ELMs smaller and reduce the amount of heat that strikes the divertor that exhausts heat in fusion facilities.

interactions that take place between the volatile edge of fusion plasma and the physical walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

Such instabilities can damage the interior of fusion facilities.