A new initiative is emerging at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory managed by Princeton University. Under the direction of principal ...

A comprehensive study of high-temperature superconducting magnets confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant. In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers achieved ...

A startup lead by MIT scientists announced the successful test of the world’s strongest high temperature superconducting magnet (above), the key technology for fusion energy. A nuclear fusion startup ...

In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers achieved a major milestone in the labs of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), when a new type of magnet, made from high-temperature ...

Yuhu Zhai leads PPPL’s new High-Field Magnet Test Facility, a collaborative research space open to researchers in both academia and private industry. The lab will enable the design and construction of ...

MIT researchers achieve a world-record magnetic field strength using high-temperature superconducting magnets, demonstrating their potential for compact fusion power plants. The comprehensive study, ...

In MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the new magnets achieved a world-record magnetic field strength of 20 tesla for a large-scale magnet. In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers ...

The DOE award demonstrates that the results of rigorous performance tests for CFS' full-scale toroidal field (TF) magnet, a key component at the heart of the company's SPARC fusion machine, have been ...

Someone posted an informative video on Reddit for fans of the Rivian R1T electric pickup. They can find out through a quick magnet test which parts of the car are aluminum and which are steel. We ...