NEW YORK (AFP) – Spurred on by major technological advances and huge private investment, the United States’ (US) nuclear fusion sector could be producing electricity within 10 years, industry players said. The process, which powers the Sun, sees two atomic nuclei combine – and release massive amounts of energy. But private companies on Earth are […]
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.
A detailed study confirms that record-setting magnets built by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Commonwealth Fusion Systems meet the requirements for an economical, compact power plant.
Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, followed up her ultrathin brain probes with tools to study the gut-brain connection and now leads an MIT research center investigating neural pathways throughout the body.
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