MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

MIT students, supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, visited the Netherlands to see how the country is investing in and implementing low-carbon technologies — including hydrogen energy production, an on-site experimental energy grid, and a local district energy heating project.

Research in lab-based astrophysics enables MIT NSE graduate student Thomas Varnish to study astrophysically relevant fundamental plasma physics — an otherwise heavily theoretical subject. His work primarily focuses on studying experimental pulsed-power-driven magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field.

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.

Startup says result highlights value of plentiful proton-boron fuel

Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it — a major breakthrough in the decades-long quest to harness the process that powers the sun.

Fission? Fusion? Net energy gain? Lasers? All the questions you have about the fusion breakthrough, answered.

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.

Nuclear is booming again. And with a serious pile of private and public funding behind them, these companies say they're getting closer to fusion.

Multiple companies aim to generate power by corraling plasma with twisted magnets

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers are using various models to study plasma turbulence in ITER, applying simulations, modeling, and machine learning to advance fusion energy research and verify performance.

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.

The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, U.S. Climate Envoy John...

Developing commercial fusion energy requires scientists to understand sustained processes that have never before existed on Earth. But with so many unknowns, how do we make sure we're designing a device that can successfully harness fusion power?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time...

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.

It's now just decades away, experts say.

By 2025, we could see the "world's first burning plasma and net energy fusion machine."

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.

Rachel Bielajew, PhD student in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is researching magnetic confinement fusion. Her work in plasma confinement, transport, and turbulence in tokamaks has applications in tokamak design. She is also passionate about helping make a better world — through science and community action.

The secret to digging deep enough borrows a technique right out of the nuclear fusion toolkit, the gyrotron. It will melt away rock as it's drilled.