Plasma Science and Fusion Center leads new Center of Excellence

The High-Energy-Thickness Physical science (HEDP) division of MIT’s Plasma Science and Combination Center (PSFC), alongside four different colleges, has been granted a five-year, $10 million award to lay out a Stewardship Science Scholarly Collusions Focus of Greatness.The center’s primary partner will be the PSFC, along with the University of Iowa;the Reno-based University of Nevada;the Rochester University;and Polytechnic Institute and State University of Virginia.

The educational and research objectives of the partners will be aided by the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) award.The newly established center aims to address issues of critical interest to the Department of Energy’s NNSA and national labs while also producing exceptional experimental and theoretical PhDs in HEDP and inertial confinement fusion (ICF).

The center, which will go by the official name of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics and Platforms for Inertial ICF and HEDP at Omega, NIF, and Z, will concentrate on the properties of plasma under extreme pressure, density, and temperature conditions.The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, and General Atomics will be among the center partners.