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Jean Paul Allain, head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, has been appointed associate director for fusion energy sciences within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Over a two-year term, Allain will serve in a senior executive role to lead the planning, development and administration of research programs in fusion energy science.

Precitec acquired a majority stake in the French startup Enovasense, whose technology measures the thickness of coatings on any substrate. T

ORNL fusion scientist Elijah Martin is working with TAE Technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of field-reversed configuration reactors, a

Oak Ridge National Laboratory manages the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy Program, or INFUSE, with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, to help the private sector find solutions to technical challenges that need to be resolved to make practical fusion energy a reality.