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MBA Thesis: Publicly Funded Research and Opportunities for Public-private Engagement in Fusion Energy

May 15, 2022 Leave a Comment

pie chart of funding sources for proprietary research performed at US DOE User Facilities in FY2020

I successfully defended my MBA thesis during the Spring 2022 semester in the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. This was a fascinating project for me, as I examined the U.S. Department of Energy’s User Facility program within the Office of Science. The resulting title of this thesis is, Assessment of Industry […]

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Profiles in Diagnostics: Making Walls Better by Watching Walls Fall

July 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

Igor Bykov studies how plasmas interact with fusion reactor walls using high speed imaging and spectroscopy. The tokamak approach to magnetic confinement fusion uses a toroidal solenoid to confine high-temperature plasmas. With peak plasma temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius, no physical measurements are possible beyond the very edge of the devices. The unique diagnostic […]

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Profiles in Diagnostics: A Hot Pursuit to Understand ICE

January 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Kathreen Thome studies how particles travel through fusion plasmas using high frequency magnetic fluctuations known as ion cyclotron emission (ICE). The tokamak approach to magnetic confinement fusion uses a toroidal solenoid to confine high temperature plasmas. With peak plasma temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius, no physical measurements are possible beyond the very edge of […]

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A Trip to Stockholm: One Old Ship and Lots of New Research

September 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

I spent a few days in Stockholm (my first visit there) and will cut straight to the highlight: The Vasa. The Vasa, seen at right in its home at the Vasa Museum, was built by Sweden in the early 1600’s as the largest warship in the world. The Vasa sank during its maiden voyage in […]

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Making Our Fusion Reactor Better

May 13, 2018 Leave a Comment

Update, November 9, 2018: the video above highlights some of the upgrade projects. This video was shot at about the halfway point of the 11-month schedule for all engineering upgrades.   Our lab, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, has ended its experimental campaign and entered into a nearly one year period of upgrade construction. This […]

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Dynamic Neutral Beam Current and Voltage Control to Improve Beam Efficacy in Tokamaks

May 1, 2018 1 Comment

The publication provided below is concerned with showing how we can reduce the energy of particle beams injected in tokamaks while actually improving the performance. The trick is that the reduced energy, i.e., beam voltage, must be accompanied by an increase in the beam current. This allows a larger number of lower energy particles to […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: DIII-D, neutral beams

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