AI Advances Fusion Energy Research at Princeton Lab

A team at Princeton Laboratory has harnessed artificial intelligence to confine plasma within a tokamak. The findings were published in the journal Nature.

“By studying past experiments, rather than using information from physical models, AI was able to develop a definitive control policy. It maintains a stable high-power plasma mode in real-time on an actual reactor,” said project leader Egemen Kolemen.

The research has opened up possibilities for conducting reactions more effectively compared to existing methods. Nuclear fusion itself is of interest to society as a clean and virtually limitless energy source.

Earlier in February, engineers from Pennsylvania developed a silicon-photonic chip that uses light waves instead of electricity.