News

2024

• SciTechDaily: Igniting Fusion Energy’s Future: The Surprising Power of Boron (November 4, 2024)

• Interesting Engineering: US plans to sprinkle boron in nuclear reactors like ‘saltshaker’ to stop energy loss (October 8, 2024)

• Phys.Org: Stopping off-the-wall behavior in fusion reactors (October 7, 2024)

2023

• DIII-D/PPPL San Diego: Real-time Si Material Injection for In-Situ Coating in the DIII-D Tokamak: Paper Published in Nuclear Fusion Journal (August 24, 2023)

• ANS San Diego: Florian Effenberg elected Vice Chair of the American Nuclear Society San Diego Section (June 22, 2023)

2022

• DIII-D/PPPL San Diego: "Mitigation of plasma–wall interactions with low-Z powders in DIII-D" published (August 31, 2022)

• ANS San Diego: Florian Effenberg re-elected for the executive committee of the American Nuclear Society San Diego Section (June 22, 2022)

• US Department of Energy: Blowing dust to cool fusion plasmas (March 7, 2022)

2021

• Newswise: PPPL speakers and discoveries prominent at 2021 global plasma physics gathering (November 30, 2021)

• ZME Science: Fusion breakthrough brings us one step closer to solving key challenges (November 8, 2021)

• Phys.org: Integrating hot cores and cool edges in fusion reactors (November 8, 2021)

• Twitter:  Today's featured postdoc: Florian Effenberg ... (September 24, 2021)

• Princeton innovation:  Future entrepreneurs get outside their comfort zone in Energy I-Corps workshop (May 10, 2021)

2019

• UW Madison/IPP Greifswald: Paper on radiative power exhaust with neon and nitrogen impurity seeding in the W7-X island divertor published (August 22 2019)

• UW Madison/IPP Greifswald: Research shows EMC3-EIRENE modeling aligns with IR measurements in Wendelstein 7-X high-performance divertor configurations (January 17 2019)

2018

• UW Fusionlab News: F. Effenberg gives contributed oral at 2018 IAEA FEC meeting (October 26 2018)

2017

• UW Fusionlab News:  F. Effenberg awarded the James D. Callen Fellowship for Excellence in Plasma Theory (December 13, 2017)

• UW 3DPSI News:  Systematic numerical study of helical SOL transport and limiter fluxes for Wendelstein 7-X using the EMC3-EIRENE code was published by PhD student Florian Effenberg in IoP journal Nuclear Fusion (January 21, 2017)

2016

• Highlights from Sherwood 2016:  F. Effenberg receives the Poster Award at the International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference (April 7, 2016)

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