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  • ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting

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    Michael Paluszek
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    I attended the ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, MA, June 14-15, 2023. The hotel is a landmark situated in the very heart of Boston. Here is a detail of the elevator. The meeting venue was spectacular. We were on the top floor of the Omni Parker House.…

    ARPA-E Fusion Programs Annual Meeting

  • Our Visit to ITER in the South of France

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    Michael Paluszek
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    On September 22 Marilyn, Eric, and I visited ITER, the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, about 45 minutes from Aix-en-Provence. We took the TGV from Paris to Aix-en-Provence. Our tour started with a talk by Akko Maas who gave a great presentation on fusion. He talked about building ITER. The complexity of the…

  • Upgrade underway of Princeton Field Reversed Configuration-2

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    Sangeeta Punjabi-Vinoth
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    The Princeton Field Reversed Configuration-2 (PFRC-2) upgrade in field and frequency is underway. We are currently installing new coils around the experiment to increase the magnetic fields and new capacitors to help lower the RF operating frequency – all to reach our target milestones of measuring ion heating! This is an essential next step in…

  • A Third Planet Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri

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    Michael Paluszek
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    Introduction A third planet, as large as 26% of the mass of Earth, has been discovered orbiting our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri .Astronomer João Faria and his collaborators detected Proxima Centauri d using the Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations. It would be exciting to send a spacecraft to enter the…

  • New Direct Fusion Drive video

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    Stephanie Thomas
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    Our new video about Direct Fusion Drive, filmed in the lab at PPPL

  • Nuclear Fusion Power

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    Michael Paluszek
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    Nuclear fusion power research started in earnest in the 1950’s. Initially, researchers thought that the work needed to produce a fusion power plant would be comparable to that needed to produce the first fission plants. That turned out to be unrealistic as the physics was not well understood and plasma confinement was much more difficult…

  • Direct Fusion Drive Mars Mission – Deep Space Habitat

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    James Slonaker
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    Check out our new banner! We modified our spacecraft to use NASA’s Deep Space Habitat:             Image Source: NASASpaceFlight The habitat has a 500 day configuration, with more than enough room for all of the astronauts and their supplies! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/dsh-module-concepts-outlined-beo-exploration/ http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/delving-deeper-dsh-configurations-support-craft/ We will use the Orion spacecraft for transfer from…

  • PSS at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Open House

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    Amanda Knutson
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    On Saturday April 1, PSS participated in the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Open House to show case our Direct Fusion Drive and our conceptual nine-month manned space mission to Mars in 2024! Our new fusion engine enables shorter transfer times and total mission durations, critical for interplanetary manned space flight. We had great interest in our…

  • Get to Mars Quickly with the Direct Fusion Drive

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    Yosef Razin
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    Do you really want to spend the next 501 days locked in a tiny room with your spouse, hurtling toward the Red Planet just to take a few snap shots from 100 miles away? What about competing with 10,000  people to build the first Martian colony on a “Big Brother”-style reality TV series? What if…