First look at Tokamak's fusion pilot plant design well received in US
The first design details of Tokamak Energy's fusion energy pilot plant created great excitement at the annual meeting of the American physical society (APS) division of plasma physics in Atlanta, USA last week, the Oxford firm said.
The company is designing a pilot plant capable of generating 800 megawatts (MW) of fusion power and 85MW of net electricity - enough to power and heat more than 70,000 American homes and the first details of its high-field spherical tokamak were presented at the conference.
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Fusion power stations are set to provide safe and secure clean energy as 1kg of fusion fuel releases the same amount of energy as burning around 10m kg of coal with no harmful emissions.
"The first design details of our high-field spherical tokamak created great excitement at the prestigious APS conference," said Michael Ginsberg, president of Tokamak Energy Inc.
"We are delighted by the reception from an expert crowd and energised on our mission to demonstrate net power from this pilot plant in the mid-2030s, paving the way for globally deployable carbon-free fusion energy.
"We now look forward to working with our partners in the U.S. to evolve and progress this design."
The company boasts two transformative technologies - the compact spherical tokamak and High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnets.
The pilot plant will include a complete set of new generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to confine and control the deuterium and tritium hydrogen fuel in a plasma many times hotter than the centre of the sun.
Tokamak Energy was founded in 2009 as a spin-off from UK Atomic Energy Authority and currently employs a growing team of more than 250 people with experts from the UK and around the world.
