Fusion researchers have long known that powerful magnets are the key to turning star-like reactions into a practical power ...

Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 HTS magnet system has replicated fusion power plant magnetic fields at 11.8T, marking a key step ...

A new initiative is emerging at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory managed by Princeton University. Under the direction of principal ...

Yuhu Zhai leads PPPL’s new High-Field Magnet Test Facility, a collaborative research space open to researchers in both academia and private industry. The lab will enable the design and construction of ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have believed that only the electric side of light played a role in certain magnetic ...

In MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the new magnets achieved a world-record magnetic field strength of 20 tesla for a large-scale magnet. In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers ...