The U.S. Department of Energy now has two major supercomputing systems aimed at accelerating fusion energy research through artificial intelligence. Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora exascale ...

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard, Ph.D., a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science ...

The simulations accurately predict the heat losses measured in experiments in the DIII-D tokamak. The findings reveal that turbulence at small electron scales can become the dominant driver of heat ...

An artist’s conception of how theory, engineering and computer codes can come together to bring fusion-powered electricity to the grid. PPPL scientists use codes to solve a range of fusion challenges.

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...

Creating efficient, self-sustaining fusion power requires good confinement of the heat in the plasma. Plasma confinement is limited by particle and energy losses due to turbulence. A new analysis used ...