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Anne White, professor and head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, is a leader in plasma physics and has produced path-breaking fusion research. She's passionate about changing the world with nuclear applications.
MIT PhD candidate Evan Leppink will explore a new way to drive current in a tokamak plasma using radiofrequency (RF) waves, at the DIII-D National Facility in San Diego, thanks to an award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education activities under a new five-year agreement with Institute spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). This new agreement doubles CFS’ financial commitment to PSFC, enabling greater recruitment and support of students, staff, and faculty.
MIT scientists completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science: predicting the temperature and density profiles of a magnetically confined plasma via first-principles simulation of plasma turbulence. The researchers used an optimization methodology developed for machine learning to dramatically reduce the CPU time required while maintaining the accuracy of the solution.
Martin Greenwald, a researcher and Plasma Science and Fusion Center deputy director, embodies a brief history of fusion at MIT. From Berkeley to MIT, his contributions to the field have included discovery of what is now known as the Greenwald Density Limit; work on all of MIT's Alcator series of tokamaks, and involvement with the MIT-designed tokamak SPARC.