[HTML][HTML] Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion

SE Wurzel, SC Hsu - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Lawson criterion is a key concept in the pursuit of fusion energy, relating the fuel density
n, pulse duration τ or energy confinement time τ E, and fuel temperature T to the energy gain …

Thermal confinement and transport in spherical tokamaks: a review

SM Kaye, JW Connor, CM Roach - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the thermal plasma confinement and transport properties observed
and predicted in low aspect ratio tokamaks, or spherical tokamaks (STs), which can depart …

Plasma burn—mind the gap

H Meyer, STEP Plasma Team - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy
Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the …

Energy confinement in the spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field reaching 0.8 T

GS Kurskiev, VK Gusev, NV Sakharov, YV Petrov… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The work presents the results of the energy confinement study carried out on the compact
spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field as high as 0.8 T. A reproducible …

[HTML][HTML] Technology Roadmapping for mission-led agile hardware development: a case study of a commercial fusion energy start-up

RJ Pearson, AE Costley, R Phaal, WJ Nuttall - … Forecasting and Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite several decades of dedicated R&D, fusion, a potentially world-changing energy
source, remains decades away from commercialisation. The majority of development thus …

Potential design problems for ITER fusion device

A Hassanein, V Sizyuk - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) is a worldwide project currently
being built in France for the demonstration of the feasibility of thermonuclear technologies …

Fusion pilot plant performance and the role of a sustained high power density tokamak

JE Menard, BA Grierson, T Brown, C Rana… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent US fusion development strategy reports all recommend that the US should pursue
innovative science and technology to enable construction of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) that …

Flat-top plasma operational space of the STEP power plant

E Tholerus, FJ Casson, SP Marsden, T Wilson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
STEP is a spherical tokamak prototype power plant that is being designed to demonstrate
net electric power. The design phase involves the exploitation of plasma models to optimise …

New proposed ITER divertor design using carbon insert on tungsten to mitigate ELMs and secondary radiation effects on nearby components

V Sizyuk, A Hassanein - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Building a successful device for the magnetic fusion energy production is a great challenge.
ITER is an international project of the tokamak based magnetic fusion design being …

STEP—on the pathway to fusion commercialization

H Wilson, I Chapman, T Denton, W Morris… - … Fusion Energy: How …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Entering its final construction phase, the international fusion experiment, ITER, will
demonstrate much of the science and technology for net fusion gain. In parallel, major …