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Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) is a spherical tokamak fusion plant concept proposed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and funded by the UK government. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The project is a proposed DEMO -class successor device to the ITER tokamak proof-of-concept of a fusion plant, the most advanced tokamak ...
A spherical tokamak is a type of fusion power device based on the tokamak principle. It is notable for its very narrow profile, or aspect ratio. A traditional tokamak has a toroidal confinement area that gives it an overall shape similar to a donut, complete with a large hole in the middle. The spherical tokamak reduces the size of the hole as ...
Fusion Programs Archived 4 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine at General Atomics, including the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, an experimental tokamak. General Atomics DIII-D Program; Fusion and Plasma Physics Seminar at MIT OCW; Unofficial ITER fan club – fans of the biggest tokamak planned to be built in near future.
Another reason for optimism about a fusion power plant in the next decade, Snyder added, is “the investment of $6 billion of private money in fusion companies, mostly fusion startups here in the ...
First plasma was obtained on NSTX on Friday, February 12, 1999 at 7:06 p.m. . Magnetic fusion experiments use plasmas composed of one or more hydrogen isotopes.For example, in 1994, PPPL's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor produced a world-record 10.7 megawatts of fusion power from a plasma composed of equal parts of deuterium and tritium, a fuel mix likely to be used in commercial fusion power ...
The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is the UK's national laboratory for fusion research.It is located at the Culham Science Centre, near Culham, Oxfordshire, and is the site of the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) and the now closed Joint European Torus (JET) and Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START).
Tokamak Energy is a fusion power company based near Oxford in the United Kingdom, [1] established in 2009. [2] The company is pursuing the global deployment of commercial fusion energy in the 2030s through the combined development of spherical tokamaks with high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. It is also developing HTS magnet ...
The company says its approach to fusion is different from the popular conception, and that it can bring an alternative commercial nuclear fusion power plant to the market by the 2030s.