# Princeton’s PACMAN reads fusion plasma in 20 milliseconds — far faster than any operator

Even a fully attentive human operator needs roughly a second to respond to anything. PACMAN, a control framework developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University, completes an entire pass in about 20 milliseconds, then loops back and does it a

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| Published | 7 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/princetons-pacman-reads-fusion-plasma-in-20-milliseconds-far-faster-than-any-operator/