{"id":220037,"date":"2025-08-13T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/finding-the-shadows-in-a-fusion-system-faster-with-ai"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:07:53","slug":"finding-the-shadows-in-a-fusion-system-faster-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/finding-the-shadows-in-a-fusion-system-faster-with-ai","title":{"rendered":"Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finding-the-shadows-in-a-fusion-system-faster-with-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A public\u2011private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what\u2019s known as \u201cmagnetic shadows\u201d in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Known as HEAT\u2011ML, the new AI could lay the foundation for software that significantly speeds up the design of future <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fusion<\/a> systems. Such software could also enable good decision\u2011making during fusion operations by adjusting the plasma so that potential problems are thwarted before they start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research shows that you can take an existing code and create an AI surrogate that will speed up your ability to get useful answers, and it opens up interesting avenues in terms of control and scenario planning,\u201d said Michael Churchill, co\u2011author of <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.fusengdes.2025.115010\" target=\"_blank\">a paper<\/a> in <i>Fusion Engineering and Design<\/i> about HEAT\u2011ML and head of digital engineering at PPPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public\u2011private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what\u2019s known as \u201cmagnetic shadows\u201d in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}