Creating loops of liquid lithium for fusion temperature control

Credit: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department

Francisco Saenz is a graduate student at Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-author of the divertorlets paper.

« Creating loops of liquid lithium for fusion temperature control

Credit: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department

A divertorlet prototype.

« Creating loops of liquid lithium for fusion temperature control

Credit: Francisco Saenz / PPPL

This screenshot from a computer simulation of the divertorlets system shows the liquid metal as it travels around the slats in the device, shown here as white rectangles.

« Creating loops of liquid lithium for fusion temperature control

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