Prairie View Plasma Lab (PVPL) at Prairie View A&M University is Considered to be the 2nd Such Facility in the US after DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL)

PVPL was established and expanded over 12 years (2004 - 2016) through the Generous Support of more than $ 10M from the Depart of Energy (DOE)

Final Report through U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI Saganti 2017)

A DOE/Fusion Energy Sciences Research/Education Program at PVAMU Study of Rotamak Plasmas

Unique Establishment - Capacitor bank was built with most units from Australia and Switzerland

Unique Power - Most power requirements are distributed among two units of 100 A each

Unique Approach - Microwave heating to sustain additional plasma

Unique Capacity - Largest Spherical Tokamak

Point of Contact: Dr Premkumar Saganti, Regents Professor and Professor of Physics (pbsaganti@pvamu.edu)

936-261-3130