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As of 2023, the Wendelstein 7-X reactor is the world's largest stellarator device. [3] After two successful operation phases ending in October 2018, the reactor was taken offline for upgrades. [4] [5] The upgrade completed in 2022. New fusion experiments in February 2023 demonstrated longer confinement and increased power. [6]
The Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor (CFR) was a fusion power project at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. [1] Its high-beta configuration, which implies that the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure is greater than or equal to 1 (compared to tokamak designs' 0.05), allows a compact design and expedited development.
SPARC is a tokamak under development by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). [1] Funding has come from Eni, [2] Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Temasek, Equinor, Devonshire Investors, and others. [3]
To create reliable, commercial nuclear fusion on Earth, scientists need to heat up plasma inside tokamak reactors to 150 million degrees Celsius—a temperature roughly 10 times that of the Sun ...
A visualisation of a nuclear fusion reactor (iStock/ Getty Images) The process mimics the same natural reactions that occur within the Sun , however harnessing nuclear fusion energy has proved ...
ITER also represents the most typical fusion reactor at this point, which is the tokamak; this is a donut-shaped canister where extremely powerful magnets control a swirling plasma that reaches ...
In general, nuclear fusion startups “tend to be a little aggressive in what they’re promising,” Jerry Navratil, a professor of fusion energy and plasma physics at Columbia University, told ...
The next stage of SST mission, the SST-2 fusion reactor, dubbed as 'DEMO' among Indian scientific circles has already been conceived. A group of eminent scientists from Institute for Plasma Research is working towards making of a full-fledged fusion reactor capable of producing electricity. Many new features like D-T plasma, Test Blanket Module ...