“Fusion Energy: Recent Developments and Physical Constraints ”

Scott Parker

Monday,  February 20th at 4:00 PM

120 Engineering (Hammond Auditorium)

Fusion energy is a promising technology for producing clean, limitless, zero-carbon energy. Recently, there has been a paradigm shift where today, privately funded research dominates over the historic government-funded fusion program. Private research and development have very short timelines, and some future milestones appear speculative. I will discuss plasma and nuclear physics constraints that experiments will face as they progress toward the fusion goal. [Read More…]