"For decades, scientists have attempted to harness the energy released by fusing atoms inside highly complex reactors, a green and potentially safer alternative to nuclear fission. Scientists are only beginning to crack the point at which fusion plants generate more energy than they require to operate, and plenty of questions remain about our ability to scale up these operations - despite enormous interest from the private sector and major investments from the likes of Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman."
"His research "helped inform the design of fusion devices that could harness the energy of fusing plasmas, bringing the dream of clean, near-limitless fusion power closer to reality," according to an MIT obituary. Loureiro was convinced that "we are really progressing towards finally having electricity from fusion," plasma physicist Bruno Soares Gonçalves told Nature."
Nuno Loureiro, director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot multiple times at his Brookline home and died at a hospital at age 47. The Norfolk County District Attorney's Office is treating the incident as an active and ongoing homicide investigation. No motive or clear link to his fusion energy work has been identified. Loureiro led award-winning research on the motion of charged particles in magnetic fields and contributed to the design of fusion devices aimed at producing clean, near-limitless power. Colleagues described him as an engaging colleague and an inspiring, caring mentor, and noted his recent work on quantum computing algorithms for plasma simulation.
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