MT29 Abstracts and Technical Program

Session

Sat-Af-Or1 - Fusion Test Facilities

5 Jul 2025, 14:00

Momentum ABC

Conveners

Sat-Af-Or1 - Fusion Test Facilities

• Philip Michael (MIT)
• Tommaso Bagni (Gauss Fusion)

809. Sat-Af-Or1-01: [Invited] ITER Magnet Cold Test Facility Design and Assembly

Thierry Schild

05/07/2025, 14:00

Invited Oral

ITER project has decided mid 2023, to procure a Magnet Cold Test Facility (MCTF) to test as many as possible Toroidal Field Coils (TFC) and the Poloidal Field Coil PF1, before they will be assembled in the tokamak. An important constraint is that the coil tests shall not impact the tokamak construction. The earliest readiness of the facility is then very important factor to optimize its usage...

628. Sat-Af-Or1-02: Current Progress on the High-Field Cable Testing Facility at Fermilab

Gueorgui Velev

05/07/2025, 14:30

Contributed Oral

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is constructing a new High Field Vertical Magnet Test Facility (HFVMTF) with capabilities comparable to the European facilities EDIPO and FRESCA2. The facility, located at Fermilab, will feature a background magnetic field of 15 T, generated by a magnet provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The HFVMTF will support two U.S....

185. Sat-Af-Or1-03: Progress on the EDIPO 2 test facility

Xabier Sarasola (EPFL-SPC)

05/07/2025, 14:45

Contributed Oral

Over the past two decades, the SULTAN test facility at EPFL-SPC has qualified superconductors for all major superconducting fusion facilities worldwide. However, the increasing demand for higher field and higher current conductors—partly driven by the development of High Temperature Superconductors —requires testing capabilities beyond those of SULTAN (limited to a background field of ≤11 T...

854. Sat-Af-Or1-04: Large bore high field fast ramp test facility for in-field measurements of HTS cables and model coils

Yuhu Zhai (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

05/07/2025, 15:00

Contributed Oral

Significant efforts to advance high temperature superconductor (HTS) and HTS coil technology are underway by privately funded startups with the goal to demonstrate HTS maturity for commercial fusion. The goal for a fusion pilot plant (FPP) is to make 50-100 MW net electricity power plants with either extended long pulses or steady state options. Although a high current, self-field test...

936. Sat-Af-Or1-05: Withdrawn

05/07/2025, 15:15

532. Sat-Af-Or1-06: Demo4 - Presentation of the assembly and commissioning of a representational set of high filed HTS magnets in a reactor relevant configuration

Graham Dunbar (Tokamak Energy Limited)

05/07/2025, 15:30

Contributed Oral

• Tokamak Energy is pursuing commercial fusion energy based on the development of spherical tokamaks with high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets.
• The Demo4 project is an ambitious high field HTS magnet build that has delivered a full spherical tokamak magnet system. This will provide a world first demonstration of the operation of a representative array of coils in a toroidal and...

221. Sat-Af-Or1-07: Development of the Qualification Program for the SPARC PF High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets

Rui Diaz-Pacheco (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)

05/07/2025, 15:45

Contributed Oral

The SPARC compact, high-field tokamak developed by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is based on high temperature superconductor (HTS) magnets. This device employs 8 Poloidal Field PF magnets which are made with PIT-VIPER cable wound in pancakes, the smallest measuring 1.2 meters radius, and the largest 8 meters. There are 10-14 pancakes in each magnet,...