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CFS was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. [4] After initial funding of $50 million in 2018 from the Italian multinational Eni, [2] CFS closed its series A round of venture capital funding in 2019 with a total of US$ 115 million in funding from Eni, [5] Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures, and others.
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]
The Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a university research center for the study of plasmas, fusion science and technology. It was originally founded in 1976 as the Plasma Fusion Center (PFC) at the request and with the collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy .
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an MIT spinoff, raised $1.8 billion in December 2021 to build a tokamak fusion device, called SPARC, at a scale intended to achieve “net energy,” that is, it is expected to output more energy than required to sustain its nuclear fusion reactions. The company is building this facility in Devens.
The NFCA is an association that represents all of the fusion centers located across the country that make up the National Network. It is headed by an executive board composed of a president, vice president, executive director, treasurer, secretary, and two regional co-chairs that represent fusion centers from the North East, South East, Central, and West regions of the country.
SPARC a development of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) in Devens, Massachusetts. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] Expected to achieve energy gain in 2026 with a fraction of ITERs size by utilizing high magnetic fields.
The VTF is a fundamental physics research group, and its research has wide-ranging and immediate impact on our understanding of such plasma-related subjects as solar flares, the aurora borealis, magnetic confinement fusion, and magnetohydrodynamic theory in general. The VTF was built and originally led by Dr. Marcel Gaudreau, and prior to its ...
Devens, MA: Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center: 1.85 m / 0.57 m: 12.2 T: 8.7 MA: Compact, high-field tokamak with ReBCO coils and 100 MW planned fusion power: ITER [51] Under construction: 2013–2034? 2034? Cadarache: ITER Council: 6.2 m / 2.0 m: 5.3 T: 15 MA ?