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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Surrounding a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, a 3-meter-tall stack of high-temperature superconducting magnets will create a powerful magnetic field to squeeze and corral a swirling, superheated mass of hydrogen plasma. The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Louisville, Colo.

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MIT team proposes ARC fusion reactor: affordable, robust, compact

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The reduction in size, in turn, makes the whole system less expensive and faster to build, and also allows for some ingenious new features in the power plant design. In June 2015, a test for the 32 tesla magnet set a new world record of 27 tesla for an all-superconducting magnet. At 32 tesla, it will be ~8.5 Palmer, F.J. Sierchio, P.

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