LPP and PPPL Informal Collaboration
(0) CommentsLPP has established an informal scientific collaboration with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the largest fusion facility in the US. The collaboration has already yielded valuable suggestions on further steps to improve LPP’s switches.
Per Eric Lerner:
The collaboration was initiated through discussions between Focus Fusion Society Executive Director Rezwan Razani and PPPL researcher Samuel Cohen.
Dr. Cohen, who works on the FRC device, suggested that LPP President Eric Lerner meet with Adam Cohen (no relation) who is Deputy Director of Operations for PPPL.
This meeting took place on February 17, leading to a suggestion by Adam Cohen that a PPPL engineer, Lewis Meixler, who had worked with spark gap switches, visit LPP’s lab to give suggestions on our switches.
This visit by Dr. Meixler occurred the next day. After a very good discussion of the problem, Meixler came up with a suggestion concerning adding new insulation to the switches.
LPP will be investigating this suggestion in the coming month, and we expect further collaboration, specifically while Lerner is presenting at a seminar on the dense plasma focus device at PPPL on March 15.
Per a researcher at PPPL:
Though each of us has different ideas and seemingly is moving in different directions, we are players on the same team, one whose goal is to improve the world through fusion.
Progress in Switching – all capacitors firing, but more reliability needed
Instrumentation – Silver activation detector installed
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