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Faces of participants surrounding the MIT dome

November 12, 2021

MIT makes strides on climate action plan

Prof. Anne White (co-chair of MIT's Climate Nucleus) and PSFC Director Dennis White both contributed to the MIT Climate Tune-In, just part of the Institute's effort to make strides on climate change discussed in this article.

MIT News

November 12, 2021

Gene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies at 91

Gene Dresselhaus, a longtime research physicist at MIT who worked at Lincoln Laboratory, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and the PSFC, died peacefully at his home in California on Sept. 29 at age 91.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

November 8, 2021

Anne White: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner

SoE Distinguished Professor of Engineering Anne White answers the question "What did the 2011 Department of Energy Early Career Award allow you to do?"

Department of Energy Office of Science

October 27, 2021

MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

PSFC Director Dennis Whyte and NSE Professor Jeff Freidberg have received a Seed Fund grant from MITEI to study “Advanced MHD topping cycles: For fission, fusion, solar power plants."

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustration of reverse d-shaped plasma inside tokamak

October 22, 2021

Alessandro Marinoni: Returning to fusion’s D-turn

Alessandro Marinoni has continued to examine an innovative plasma shape, dubbed “negative triangularity,” extending previous research to configurations more compatible with the plasma environment of a reactor.

PSFC News

October 22, 2021

Radiofrequency wave scattering improves fusion simulations

By incorporating the scattering of radiofrequency waves into fusion simulations, MIT physicists improve heating and current drive predictions for fusion plasmas.

PSFC News

October 12, 2021

Can nuclear fusion put the breaks on climate change

A brief history of the road to ARC and SPARC as it leads to the historic magnet testing at MIT in September 2021.

The New Yorker

Photo of MIT crew who worked on the MRS diagnostic at the National Ignition Facility

September 28, 2021

MIT makes key contribution to the National Ignition Facility’s historic fusion experiment

The PSFC's Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer was vital to the success of the National Ignitiion Facilities historic fusion yield, which puts researchers within reach of "ignition."

PSFC News

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