PPPL physicists simulate innovative method for starting up tokamaks without using a solenoid Scientists at PPPL have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside fusion plasma without using a central electromagnet, or solenoid.

A collaboration bears fruit as W7-X celebrates first research plasma Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and other national laboratories joined colleagues from around the world at the celebration for the first plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany.

PPPL physicists propose new plasma-based method to treat radioactive waste Physicists propose a new way to process nuclear waste that uses a plasma-based centrifuge