Major Next Steps for Fusion Energy Based on the Spherical Tokamak Design
Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy are considering the design and materials for the next step in fusion reactions research – a device called a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility that could become a pilot plant and serve as a forerunner for a commercial fusion reactor.
Read more about Major Next Steps for Fusion Energy Based on the Spherical Tokamak DesignPoof! The Weird Case of the X-ray that Came Out Blank
Researchers at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source have observed a nonlinear optical effect, called “stimulated scattering,” that had never been seen in X-rays before and is a milestone in the quest to understand how light interacts with matter.
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Three large neutrino experiments – PROSPECT and COHERENT, both based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and the Majorana Collaboration based at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota – are gearing up with researchers from many institutions to advance our understanding of neutrino physics.
Read more about Neutrino Experiments Utilize ORNL Experts, Equipment to Explore the UnknownPPPL and Princeton Help Lead a New Center to Understand and Mitigate Runaway Electrons that Pose a Challenge for ITER
Researchers from nine U.S. universities and national laboratories are working together to explore the causes and solutions for runaway electrons, which travel at nearly the speed of light and could damage the interior walls of future tokamaks.
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Using computer simulations at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, researchers discovered conditions that explains the phenomenon of chirping – a wave in plasma that breaks from a single note into rapidly changing notes - and may help to optimize the design of fusion energy plants in the future.
Read more about How to Keep the Superhot Plasma Inside Tokamaks from ChirpingGraduate Student Eric Metodiev Finds Freedom and His Voice in Physics
Under the mentorship of Bill Morse in the Physics Department, Metodiev has worked for the past four years on the Muon g-2 experiment, studying the properties of muons, tiny subatomic particles that exist for only 2.2 millionths of a second.
Read more about Graduate Student Eric Metodiev Finds Freedom and His Voice in PhysicsA New Way to Display the 3-D Structure of Molecules
Metal-organic frameworks provide a new platform for solving the structure of hard-to-study samples.
Read more about A New Way to Display the 3-D Structure of MoleculesStony Brook University's Samema Sarowar Awarded Renate W. Chasman Scholarship
Samema Sarowar, a biosciences student at Stony Brook University (SBU), has been awarded the 2016 Renate W. Chasman scholarship. Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS), a not-for-profit organization at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, offers the scholarship to qualified candidates to encourage women to pursue careers in science, engineering, or mathematics.
Read more about Stony Brook University's Samema Sarowar Awarded Renate W. Chasman ScholarshipUnveiled: Earth’s Viral Diversity
DOE JGI researchers utilized the largest collection of assembled metagenomic datasets from around the world to uncover over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes, the majority of them infecting microbes and providing researchers with a unique resource of viral sequence information.
Read more about Unveiled: Earth’s Viral DiversityScientists Uncover the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound
Analysis of thousands of samples reveals that the compound becomes superconducting at an unusually high temperature because local electron pairs form a "superfluid" that flows without resistance.
Read more about Scientists Uncover the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide CompoundFM Global Researchers Say “ADIOS” to Bottlenecks at OpenFOAM Conference
Researchers from commercial property insurer FM Global use OLCF-developed middleware to drastically improve fire suppression simulations. The team used OLCF resources to test the speed and restart capability of ADIOS while simulating the spray dynamics from a sprinkler.
Read more about FM Global Researchers Say “ADIOS” to Bottlenecks at OpenFOAM ConferenceEnergy Department to Invest $16 Million in Computer Design of Materials
Two four-year projects—one team led by DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the other team led by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will take advantage of superfast computers at DOE national laboratories by developing software to design fundamentally new functional materials destined to revolutionize applications in alternative and renewable energy, electronics, and a wide range of other fields.
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