DOE Award Reunites PPPL with Spin-Out Company Princeton Stellarators
Two public-private collaborations, awarded in the latest round of the Department of Energy's Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program, bring Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) into a one-year partnership with Princeton Stellarators Inc, a startup cofounded by a PPPL physicist.
The stellarator, which historically had a complex twisted-coil design, and the tokamak are the main systems with which scientists around the world are seeking to capture and control fusion energy as a clean and abundant source of power to generate electricity and mitigate climate change. Their goal is to facilitate harnessing on Earth the same fusion energy that powers the sun and stars.
The two PPPL collaborations, which will receive nearly $500,000 in total funding, are among the 10 recently announced INFUSE-funded projects totaling $2.3 million.