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Transforming fusion from a scientific curiosity into a powerful clean energy source
Driven to solve hard problems, MIT Associate Professor Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to nuclear fusion power plants.
“It was a pretty bleak time to take a faculty position in fusion energy, but I am a person who loves to find a vacuum,” says Hartwig, who is a newly tenured associate professor at MIT. In 2012, he had takena class taught by Professor Dennis Whyte that challenged students to design and assess the economics of a nuclear fusion power plant that incorporated a new kind of high-temperature superconducting magnet. “The perspective in 2024 looks quite a bit different than it did in 2016, and a huge part of that is tied to the institutional capability of a place like MIT and the willingness of people here to accomplish big things,” Hartwig says.
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