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Fusion Energy: How it Works, Why We Want it and How to Get it Sooner
Dennis Whyte, Director, PSFC
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Jan/12 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Fusion energy is one of the most attractive options for producing large amounts of safe, carbon-free electricity. We will explore what is required to make fusion energy a reality and how its development could be accelerated by technology and science innovations.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
High Temperature Superconducting Magnets for Fusion: New Technology for a New Energy Source
Joseph Minervini, Division Head, Fusion Technology and Engineering
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Jan/12 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Magnet systems are the ultimate enabling technology for magnetic confinement fusion devices, which require powerful magnetic fields to confine the plasma. Almost all design concepts for power-producing commercial fusion reactors rely on superconducting magnets to create these magnetic fields efficiently and reliably. If fusion reactors are going to be a significant and practical energy source, future superconducting magnets will require improved materials and components.
A recent breakthrough could significantly change the economic and technical status of superconducting magnets. So-called High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have now been used to demonstrate superconducting fields > 30T in small bore solenoid geometries. Recent studies performed at MIT indicate that HTS magnets using demountable magnets are becoming a feasible option for future devices. These magnets could make game-changing improvements to fusion reactor performance, as well as to machine maintenance, reliability and availability.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
ICF - Basic Science Behind Stockpile Stewardship: Research with the OMEGA Laser
Craig Sangster, University of Rochester
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Jan/20 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
The DOE-NNSA supports a number of experimental facilities that explore the high-energy-density physics, HEDP, (e.g., pressures above 1 Mbar) relevant to Stockpile Stewardship. The OMEGA laser at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is one of those facilities and recently completed its 25,000th shot since becoming operational in 1996. The Stewardship program has benefited immensely from the open nature of the research conducted at LLE where the research priorities are split roughly equally among basic science, fusion and HEDP. This talk will describe many of the experimental platforms and techniques used to study physics relevant to fields such as material science, relativistic plasmas (e.g., electron-positron plasmas), hydrodynamics, cosmology and astrophysics, and planetary science. While the data from these experiments are often published in journals such as Physical Review, Nature and Science, where possible, the HEDP connection with the Sponsor will be discussed.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
Inertial Confinement Fusion Tour
Maria Gatu Johnson, Research Scientist
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Jan/20 | Tue | 03:15PM-04:15PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
This tour showcases Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) research at MIT. The PSFC High-Energy-Density Physics group has developed and/or calibrated a number of nuclear diagnostics installed on the OMEGA laser at the University of Rochester, NY, and on the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA, to study nuclear products generated in fusion reactions.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
MIT's High-Field Research on the Fast Track to Fusion Electricity - Alcator C-Mod and ADX
Brian LaBombard, Senior Research Scientist
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Jan/16 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
How can one harness the process that powers the sun? By compressing a hot fusion plasma with very strong magnetic fields. Recent advances in high temperature, high-field superconductors open up an exciting new design window for a compact, high-field, electricity producing device, based on the tokamak concept. MIT’s high field tokamak, Alcator C-Mod, and a proposed new high-field device, ADX, are charting the pathway forward to this vision for a practical fusion power plant.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
Nuclear Measurements at the National Ignition Facility: MIT's Contribution to Fusion Ignition and Basic Science
Alex Zylstra, Graduate Student
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Jan/20 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
The High-Energy-Density Physics Division is responsible for four essential nuclear diagnostics on the National Ignition Facility: a neutron spectrometer, two proton spectrometers, and a fusion burn history diagnostic. Future capabilities include improvements on current techniques and proton back-lighting. This talk will discuss diagnostic techniques and their applications to both fusion ignition and basic science.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series
Martin Greenwald, Paul Rivenberg, Abhay Ram
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This series introduces plasma physics research and areas of related interest at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. See URL below. http://www.psfc.mit.edu/
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
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Jan/12 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Fusion Energy: How It Works, Why We Want It and How to Get It Sooner
Fusion energy is one of the most attractive options for producing large amounts of safe, carbon-free electricity. We will explore what is required to make fusion energy a reality and how its development could be accelerated by technology and science innovations.
Dennis Whyte - Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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Jan/12 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NW17-218 |
High Temperature Superconducting Magnets for Fusion: New Technology for a New Energy Source
Recent MIT studies indicate that High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnets using demountable magnets are becoming a feasible option for future fusion devices. These magnets could make game-changing improvements to fusion reactor performance, as well as to machine maintenance, reliability and availability.
Joe Minervini - Division Head
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Jan/14 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NW17-218 |
Space Weather Research: Scientific and Social Issues of Living Near a Star
An overview of some scientfic questions and practical issues that confront us as a technological, space-faring human race living in the atmosphere of a star. We will discuss existing space-based assets used for both basic plasma physics research and weather forecasting, along with a remarkably simple method for measuring solar wind.
Michael Stevens - Astrophysicist
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Jan/16 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
MIT's High-Field Research on the Fast Track to Fusion Electricity - Alcator C-Mod and ADX
Recent advances in high-temperature, high-field superconductors open up an exciting design window for a compact, high-field, electricity producing device, based on the tokamak concept. MIT's Alcator C-Mod, and a proposed new high-field device, ADX, are charting the pathway forward to this vision for a practical fusion power plant.
Brian LaBombard - Research Scientist
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Jan/16 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | NW17-218 |
Visit the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a major fusion energy experiment being carried out on the MIT campus. Alcator C- Mod is the third in a series of tokamak devices at MIT that use very high magnetic fields to confine plasmas operating near 100,000,000 degrees.
Ted Golfinopoulos - Postdoctoral Associate
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Jan/20 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Nuclear Measurements at the National Ignition Facility (NIF): MIT's Contribution to Fusion Ignition and Basic Science
MIT is responsible for 4 essential nuclear diagnostics on the NIF: a neutron spectrometer, two proton spectrometers, and a fusion burn history diagnostic. This talk will discuss diagnostic techniques and their applications to both fusion ignition and basic science.
Alex Zylstra - Grad Student
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Jan/20 | Tue | 12:15PM-01:00PM | NW17-218 |
This tour showcases Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) research at MIT. The PSFC High-Energy-Density Physics group has developed and/or calibrated a number of nuclear diagnostics installed on the OMEGA laser at the University of Rochester, NY, and on the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA, to study nuclear products generated in fusion reactions.
Maria Gatu Johnson - Research Scientist
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Jan/20 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:30PM | NW17-218 |
The Basic Science Behind Stockpile Stewardship: Research with the OMEGA Laser
This talk will describe many of the experimental platforms and techniques used to study physics relevant to fields such as material science, relativistic plasmas (e.g., electron-positron plasmas), hydrodynamics, cosmology and astrophysics, and planetary science.
Craig Sangster - Experimental Division Director, LLE
Space Weather Research: Scientific and Social Issues of Living Near a Star
Michael Stevens, Harvard Smithsonian Center
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Jan/14 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Nw17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
An overview of some scientific and social issues that confront us as a technological, space-faring human race living in the atmosphere of a star. We will discuss existing space-based assets used for both basic plasma physics research and weather forecasting, along with a remarkably simple method for measuring solar wind, which will be employed in the upcoming NASA missions, DSCOVR and Solar Probe Plus.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
Tour of Alcator C-Mod Tokamak at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Ted Golfinopoulos, Postdoctoral Associate
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Jan/16 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | NW17-218 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Visit the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a major fusion energy experiment being carried out on the MIT campus. Alcator C- Mod is the third in a series of tokamak devices at MIT that use very high magnetic fields to confine plasmas operating near 100,000,000 degrees C.
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
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