Conveners
Sat-Af-Or1 - Fusion Test Facilities
- Tommaso Bagni (Gauss Fusion)
- Philip Michael (MIT)
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...
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....
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...
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...
High Field Compact Machine Approach to Fusion and Relevant Superconducting Technologies*
B. Coppi1, L. Sugiyama1 and C. Mazzotta2
1MIT (US), 2ENEA (Italy)
Given the limitations of relevant theory and available experimental results at the current stage of fusion research, reaching regimes close to ignition conditions is necessary in order to investigate the physics of meaningful fusion...
• 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...
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,...
