Dennis G. Whyte, the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, has announced he will step down at the end of the year to focus on fusion research and teaching as part of nuclear science and engineering.

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New experiments rule out the concern that neutron irradiation might cause problems during the operation of a nuclear fusion power plant.

MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced plans to build the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

A comprehensive study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant.

High school senior Tuba Balta reached new audiences through her internship with the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where she learned to communicate the basics of fusion science in an accessible way.

A paper by MIT professor Dennis Whyte and others explores academia's role in the development of fusion energy. They cite additional fusion faculty, private industry collaborations, and creative licensing strategies as essential for creating a commercial fusion industry.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Dennis Whyte of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, about what the expected announcement about fusion energy means for climate and energy sustainability on Earth.

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.

Nuno Loureiro is the new director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, succeeding Dennis Whyte. Loureiro will lead efforts in fusion energy research, plasma physics, and collaborations with partners like Eni, IBM, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Investigators in the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center have found that — depending on its future cost and performance — fusion energy has the potential to be critically important to decarbonization and, under some conditions, could reduce the global cost of decarbonizing by trillions of dollars.

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.

Having explored her options at MIT via MISTI assignments and UROPs, Zoe Fisher is focusing on Nuclear Science and Engineering, doing research at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Zoe Fisher, a doctoral student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, is studying how defects in ceramics form during radiation damage, toward designing a more practical ceramic that can insulate the inside of fusion power plants.

A panel hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative discussed areas where new or improved technologies or systems are needed to meet the ambitious goals set by governments around the globe, including the United States, to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century.

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An anonymous reader shared this article from Futurism: More than two years since MIT claimed its scientists achieved a breakthrough in fusion energy, the university is claiming that new research "confirms" that the magnet-based design used in those tests isn't just impressive in a lab setting, but ...

Whyte is a proud man and recoils at the thought that the record European crowd and the massive potential PPV numbers are all Fury's doing.