High school senior Tuba Balta reached new audiences through her internship with the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where she learned to communicate the basics of fusion science in an accessible way.
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Rachel Bielajew, PhD student in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is researching magnetic confinement fusion. Her work in plasma confinement, transport, and turbulence in tokamaks has applications in tokamak design. She is also passionate about helping make a better world through science and community action.
“There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.”
Dennis Whyte, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is reflecting on a guiding belief behind his nuclear science and engineering class 22.63 (Principles of Fusion Engineering). He has recently watched his students, working in teams, make their final presentations on how to use fusion technology to create carbon-free fuel for shipping vessels. Since taking on the course over a decade ago, Whyte has moved away from standard lectures, prodding the class to work collectively on finding solutions to “real-world” issues. Over the past years the course, and its collaborative approach to design, has been instrumental in guiding the real future of fusion at the PSFC.