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Team led by PPPL physicist wins major supercomputer time to help develop fusion energy
Multi-institutional researchers led by physicist C.S. Chang of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been granted millions of supercomputer node-hours to investigate issues crucial to the success of ITER, the international tokamak under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power. The two-year award from the DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE), selected in competition with science and engineering research from around the world, enables the team to extend its previous INCITE work into areas of critical interest for next-step fusion facilities.