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Fusion Expert George Tynan, Mechanical Engineering Professor, Featured in Wall Street Journal

October 7, 2024

University of California San Diego mechanical engineering professor George Tynan is featured in a video produced by the Wall Street Journal looking at the global race to develop practical fusion energy technologies. 

“In the last five years or so, there is the beginning realization that this [fusion] may not just be interesting science but there may be the possibility that this could become an important, practical technology,” said Tynan in the WSJ video entitled “What China’s Rapid Gains in Nuclear Fusion Mean for the U.S.”

Tynan is the Kazuo Iwama Endowed Chair in Material Science and a member of the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. 

Tynan’s fusion-related research expertise includes:
Fundamental studies of plasma-material interactions in burning plasma conditions; development of radiation-damage resistant materials for controlled fusion; basic and applied plasma physics; and fundamental physics of turbulent transport in hot confined plasmas using both smaller scaled laboratory plasma devices as well as large scale fusion experiments. 

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Daniel Kane
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-534-3262
dbkane@ucsd.edu