Newsflashes from Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

The new issue focuses on the successful completion of the conversion of the Garching Tokamak and its new experimental capabilities.

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In the project “HTS4Fusion”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) is working with partners to advance magnet technologies for stellarators – which could enable more compact and efficient fusion power plants. more

The Max Planck Society (MPG) honors the two IPP physicists for their outstanding doctoral theses. more

Fraunhofer IWS and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Develop Innovative Barrier Coatings for Fusion Power Plants more

The journal Nature Reviews Physics features a contribution by IPP Director Prof. Frank Jenko on the potential applications of supercomputing and artificial intelligence in fusion research. In the following interview, he explains what these are. more

On May 22, the latest experimental campaign concluded at the world’s most powerful nuclear fusion device of the stellarator type. Through collaboration between researchers from Europe and the USA, Wendelstein 7-X achieved, among other milestones, a world record in a key parameter of fusion physics: the triple product. This value now exceeds previous tokamak records for long plasma durations (see UPDATE at the end of the article). more