princeton graduate student creates program that helps stabilize fusion plasma /

Imène Goumiri,a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.
S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion plasmas. The more instabilities there are, or the less efficiently doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks operate. The journal Nuclear Fusion published results of this research in February 2016. The research was supported by the DOE's Office of Science.

Source: phys.org