From confinement approaches to heating, magnets, fuel and materials: explore principles, component roles and development stages, then the companies and projects behind them. Understand the industrial context as well as the technology.
An October 5 ITER report highlights disruption protection. Separate AI misses, false alarms and response times to identify conditions control and diagnostics companies should verify before demonstration.
This approach uses a plasma structure called a field-reversed configuration. Helion's magnetic compression and TAE's beam-driven approach differ in operation and fuel strategy.
Fusion power, gross electrical output and net power available for export: understanding measurement boundaries connects experimental results with business potential.
Plasma energy gain Q and net electricity after subtracting the entire plant's power consumption are different metrics. Check the measurement boundary before comparing numbers.
How do external coils confine a hot plasma? Explore stellarator magnetic fields, the differences between LHD and W7-X, long-pulse results and the engineering challenges on the path to fusion power.
A tokamak uses magnetic fields to confine hot plasma in a toroidal vessel. Integrated design covering heating, control and materials is essential.
In a D–T fusion reactor, the blanket receives neutron energy as heat and also supports tritium breeding. Heat extraction and material durability are crucial.
Lasers compress and heat tiny fuel targets. For power generation, integrating high-repetition-rate irradiation with target supply is a challenge.
Beyond the claim that fuel is abundant lie breeding, recovery, purification and resupply. A guide to the fuel cycle supporting sustained D–T fusion operation.
Fusion fuel does not simply pass through a reactor once. Understand the separate tasks of recovering unburned fuel from a D–T system’s exhaust, replacing consumed tritium, and preparing fuel for reuse.
The relationship between conductor, cooling, structure and protection cannot be captured by ‘20 tesla’ alone. Understanding superconducting magnets as manufacturable systems.
Magnet technology for producing strong magnetic fields. CFS uses REBCO high-temperature superconducting materials in more compact high-field tokamaks.
