Hyaline Chen ’25
Major
Undeclared
Project Title
Small Clean Fusion Reactors
Presentation Link
Our research aimed to develop a compact fusion reactor that produces less contamination in the experiments happening in the Princeton Field Reversed Configurations (PFRC) program. I primarily ran simulations of single ion trajectories inside the PFRC magnetic field and observed the heating and confinement of the particles when started with different initial conditions. I then sought to explain the observed behaviors using more analytical models.
Internship Year
2022
Project Category
Innovation and a New Energy Future
Organization(s)
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory - Princeton, New Jersey
Mentor(s)
Samuel Cohen, Director, Program in Plasma Science and Technology, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory