Santanu Banerjee
Career Objective:
With 20+ years of research experience in tokamak plasma, my objective is to contribute in the experimental R&D activities related to turbulence, transport and confinement in plasma physics and to facilitate Nuclear Fusion research as a clean and viable energy source for mankind in near future. My areas of interest are, Studies of Turbulence and Transport, Plasmas Impurities Production and Transport, Plasma disruption and mitigation techniques, Runaways, Plasma Imaging, Plasma Spectroscopy, MHD. I also have fair knowledge of plasma device operation and control.
Updated: October 2, 2023
How to contact me:
Santanu BanerjeePrinceton Plasma Physics LaboratoryMS 17P.O. Box 451Princeton, NJ 08543-0451GPS: 100 Stellarator RoadPrinceton, NJ 08540 U.S.A.sbanerje@pppl.govsantoipr@gmail.comIPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (Mar 21, 2023)
Continued greenhouse gas emissions will lead to increasing global warming, with the best estimate of reaching 1.5°C in the near term in considered scenarios and modelled pathways. Every increment of global warming will intensify multiple and concurrent hazards (high confidence). Deep, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would lead to a discernible slowdown in global warming within around two decades, and also to discernible changes in atmospheric composition within a few years (high confidence). For any given future warming level, many climate-related risks are higher than assessed in AR5, and projected long-term impacts are up to multiple times higher than currently observed (high confidence). Risks and projected adverse impacts and related losses and damages from climate change escalate with every increment of global warming (very high confidence). Climatic and non-climatic risks will increasingly interact, creating compound and cascading risks that are more complex and difficult to manage (high confidence).
We are only 8 years away from stronger El Niño and La Niña events (Nov 2022)
A new study of climate models finds that this strengthening happening is decades ahead of schedule. (https://www.popsci.com/environment/climate-change-strengthen-el-nino-la-nina/)
Excerpts from the UN press release on the IPCC Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity' (Aug 09, 2021)
Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 report is a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse‑gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.
The internationally agreed threshold of 1.5°C is perilously close. We are at imminent risk of hitting 1.5°C in the near term. The only way to prevent exceeding this threshold is by urgently stepping up our efforts and pursuing the most ambitious path.
Excerpts from PPPL News (Dec 09, 2013): Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the tritium shot heard around the world
Tensions rose in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as the seconds counted down. At stake was the first crucial test of a high-powered mixture of fuel for producing fusion energy. As the control-room clock reached “zero,” a flash of light on a closed-circuit television monitor marked a historic achievement: A world-record burst of more than 3 million watts of fusion energy — enough to momentarily light some 3,000 homes — fueled by the new high-powered mixture. The time was 11:08 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, 1993.
Glimpses of high-speed plasma imaging
Aditya Plasma
QUEST Plasma
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Plasma Torch