Post by Princeton University

On June 3, a flatbed truck arrived at the front gates of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) carrying a piece of machinery that could influence the course of energy innovation in the United States — the central magnet bundle for the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U), a compact fusion system designed to be the most powerful of its kind in the world: https://bit.ly/3QCFo4c NSTX-U will provide important information about the viability of the spherical tokamak concept for fusion power plants and provide data to train artificial intelligence systems that can improve the operations of fusion machines. It will also play an important role in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap, which targets actions and milestones to provide the scientific and technological foundation to support a competitive U.S. fusion energy industry.