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Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on September 25, 2026. May be an image of text. 5 items, carousel

As celebrations continue for PPPL’s 75th anniversary year, explore another highlight of one of the Lab’s…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on September 23, 2026. May be an image of text. 9 items, carousel

Technicians and engineers have been hard at work prepping the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on September 15, 2026. May be an image of text. 3 items, carousel

Fusion energy researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom met online Sept. 9 and 10 to turn a…

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#WhatIsItWednesday — This summer, William Gergen (@the_bakers_blaze), an engineering physics major at the…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on September 04, 2026. May be an image of text. 3 items, carousel

The classic video game character Pac-Man is well known for gobbling up power pellets. Now a new AI software…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 27, 2026. May be an image of generator, crane and text.Video

And we stick the landing! 🏗️ Earlier this summer, the Lab received delivery of a new substation transformer…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 25, 2026. May be an image of text. 6 items, carousel

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) operated at PPPL from 1982 to 1997. TFTR set a number of world…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 24, 2026. 15 items, carousel

What’s shaped like a cored apple 🍎 and could offer a good option for power plants powered by fusion energy?…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 19, 2026. May be an image of capacitor and text that says 'Isolation Barrier R LED Input Input Photodiode Output RL GND Return GND'.Video

#WhatIsItWednesday — Magnetic reconnection, the process where magnetic field lines break apart and…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 18, 2026. May be an image of text. 2 items, carousel

Congratulations 🎉 to SangKyeun Kim, a staff research physicist at PPPL, on receiving the 2026 Early Career…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 13, 2026. May be an image of display case, rack and text.Video

The Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC) is a new state-of-the-art building under construction at the…

Photo by Princeton University on August 13, 2026. May be an image of text. 2 items, carousel

At Princeton, quantum science can be roughly divided into two categories: the development of engineering…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 11, 2026. May be an image of text. 8 items, carousel

What did you learn this summer? Each summer, PPPL welcomes students from across the country to participate…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 10, 2026. May be an image of text. 2 items, carousel

Congratulations Yiguang Ju! 🎉 An associated faculty member and head of electromanufacturing science at…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 07, 2026. May be an image of text. 3 items, carousel

A collaborative team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (@energy) Princeton Plasma Physics…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 06, 2026. May be an image of text.Video

Space weather, like solar flares, is driven by a powerful process called magnetic reconnection. When…

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#WhatIsItWednesday — This summer, Kirby Wilkerson, a recent graduate of Georgia Tech University…

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Way to go Rishika Porandla, a Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program intern at PPPL and…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on August 03, 2026. May be an image of text. 5 items, carousel

As the Lab celebrates 75 years of breakthroughs at PPPL, we’re spotlighting the moments that pushed fusion…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on July 31, 2026. May be an image of studying, clipboard, chalk drawing and text.Video

For #NationalInternDay meet Devin Sinn, a recent Penn State graduate with triple majors in astronomy and…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on July 30, 2026. May be an image of microscope and text.Video

Happy #NationalInternDay! Meet Samuel Evangelista, a rising sophomore studying physics at Princeton…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on July 29, 2026. May be an image of one or more people, newsroom, office and text.Video

For #NationalInternDay, meet Leila Alston, a rising senior at Hampton University (@_hamptonu) majoring in…

Photo by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on July 28, 2026. May be an image of text. 5 items, carousel

A new two-year pilot program expands collaboration between Princeton University (@princeton) and the…

Video by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab on July 27, 2026. May be an image of text that says '福 र PPPL is New Jersey's national laboratory. WEST ร้ม'.Video

On #NationalNewJerseyDay we're proud to be the Garden State's only national laboratory. ⚛️ PPPL is one of 17…