Here’s an early look at the #fusion energy pilot plant we’re designing as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s bold decadal vision for commercial fusion. First details were presented last week at the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics conference in Atlanta, Georgia. A spherical tokamak using high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to confine and control a plasma, our pilot plant will generate 800 megawatts (MW) of fusion power and 85MW of net electricity – enough to power and heat more than 70,000 American homes. The design builds on more than ten years’ experience designing, building and operating tokamaks, including achieving a world record plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius in 2022 with our ST40 spherical tokamak, the threshold for fusion energy. Michael Ginsberg, EngScD, President of Tokamak Energy Inc., said: “The first design details of our high-field spherical tokamak created a great amount of excitement at the prestigious APS conference. 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 #fusionenergy. We now look forward to working with our partners in the U.S. to evolve and progress this design.” Read our full press release here: 👇 https://lnkd.in/e_G-uBa5 #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition
Tokamak Energy
Renewable Energy Power Generation
Milton, Abingdon, England 35,020 followers
Commercialising fusion energy and our groundbreaking HTS magnet technology
About us
We are developing the technology to deliver clean, secure and affordable fusion energy in the 2030s. Tokamak Energy was founded in 2009 as a spin-off from UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Our US subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019. We are the only private fusion company with over a decade’s experience developing the two technologies that offer the most efficient and commercially attractive route to fusion energy; the compact spherical tokamak and high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. TE Magnetics, our dedicated HTS magnet business division, is focussed on becoming the leading supplier of HTS technology for fusion and other exciting new applications, including science, renewable energy and propulsion on land, in water air and space.
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- Renewable Energy Power Generation
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- 201-500 employees
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- Milton, Abingdon, England
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- Privately Held
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- 2009
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Milton, Abingdon, England OX14 4SD, GB
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It’s the final day of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS_DPP) conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Our team has had a busy week, presenting the latest results of our ST40 spherical tokamak research and meeting with partners and collaborators including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, General Atomics, DIII-D National Fusion Facility and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). We’re proud to be part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program and believe that building strong public-private partnerships will deliver #fusion as a new source of carbon-free, secure and affordable energy for the world ⚡ #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition
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Would you like to know more about how a tokamak works? Or how we achieved a record 100 million degrees Celsius in our ST40 spherical tokamak? Come and meet our team of leading scientists and engineers at the IF Oxford - Oxford Science & Ideas Festival this Saturday 12th October, or in the UK school half-term break on Monday 28th October. We’ll be presenting ‘The anatomy of a tokamak’, explaining how our work with ST40 is helping to deliver #fusion as a new source of virtually limitless, clean and secure energy for the world 🌍 You can also try our tokamak simulator, based on real ST40 data, to see if you too can reach 100 million degrees, over six times hotter than the centre of the sun ☀️ 🕚 Saturday 12 October 2024, 11am-5pm 🌍 Explorazone, Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St, Oxford, OX1 2DH 🕚 Monday 28 October 2024, 11am-5pm 🌍 BLAST!, The Barn, Nightingale Ave, Oxford, OX4 7BU Find out more here: 👇 https://lnkd.in/dRyjuGD #FusionForAll #IFOx2024
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Good news on spherical tokamak performance was announced at the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) conference by Michele Romanelli, Head of Plasma Prediction and Simulation at Tokamak Energy. Initial analysis of the latest results on our ST40 spherical tokamak indicates energy confinement increases more rapidly with magnetic field than would be expected with the ITER scaling used for conventional tokamaks. This is an important finding as we scale-up to the next generation of #fusion pilot plants. Michele said: “ST40 is a compact, high-field spherical tokamak; a working prototype of a fusion pilot plant. We are learning rapidly how to optimise performance and gaining vital data for pilot plant design. In addition, we have found a way to stay clear from 'ELM's, or Edge-Localised Mode, that can cause #plasma instabilities and loss of confinement. Our work supports the spherical tokamak as the optimal route to globally deployable, cost-effective #fusionenergy." #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition #Innovation
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An article in Physics World by IOP Publishing highlights the exciting spin-off applications of the technology we're developing to deliver #fusionenergy. It features our cutting-edge high temperature #superconducting (HTS) #magnet technology, developed to contain and control plasmas in future fusion power plants. This technology has the potential to transform not only fusion but a wide range of applications, from 'space thrusters and proton-beam therapy to motors and generators for wind turbines and planes’. Read the article here: 👇 https://lnkd.in/dzh9mY74 Find out how we're leading the development of HTS magnets for commercial applications via our TE Magnetics business division: 👇 www.temagnetics.com #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition #Innovation #Superconductors
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As #fusion moves towards commercial delivery, one of the greatest challenges is developing ‘first wall’ #materials that can withstand the harsh environment inside future fusion power plants and maintain performance for the lifetime of the plant. We’re delighted to be supporting two projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-E Chadwick programme. We’ll be working as an industrial partner on a project led by The Johns Hopkins University to develop a nanocrystalline tungsten material expected to be twice as tough and ten times as irradiation resistant than current tungsten materials. We’re also supporting a project led by Ames National Laboratory to investigate and develop a new high-temperature material using tungsten, vanadium, rhenium, and other elements with high melting points. Developing advanced, durable materials like these will lower operational expenses and reduce downtime in future commercial plants, opening the way for the delivery of clean, secure and affordable #fusionenergy ⚡ 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezD6c4fM #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition #Innovation
Press Release | U.S. Department of Energy Announces Nearly $30 Million for 13 Projects to Enable Commercial Fusion Energy
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The #fusion world has gathered this week at Dublin City University for the 33rd Symposium on Fusion Technology (#SOFT2024). It’s the most important fusion technology conference in Europe, and ten members of the Tokamak Energy team are there, proud to present and discuss our latest work, catch up with friends and collaborators, and make new connections. Building strong partnerships is a core part of our mission to develop the technology to deliver clean, secure and affordable #fusionenergy ⚡ Otto Asunta Robin Kamenicky Victor Agudo Konstantin Moshkunov James Alexander Alasdair Burchill Emma Wooldridge Filip Janky Graham NAYLOR James Stirling #FusionForAll #Fusion #CleanEnergyTransition
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Watch a #plasma pulse from our recent experimental campaign with our ST40 spherical tokamak. This is how we’re building the understanding and developing the technology to deliver commercial #fusionenergy. In phase 1 of our 2024 campaign, we focussed on enhancing our understanding of confinement in spherical tokamaks, looking at how energy confinement time scales with magnetic field and plasma current. Energy confinement is a key component of ‘triple product’, an important measure of plasma performance that includes plasma temperature, density and energy confinement time. Operating ST40, the world’s highest-field spherical tokamak, enables us to carry out research like this, and to play a leading role in the design of the next generation of #fusion pilot plants. It’s a core part of our mission to develop the technology to deliver clean, secure and globally deployable fusion energy. #FusionForAll #Fusion #Innovation #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergyTransition
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We're proud of our work with our ST40 spherical tokamak, which is the highest magnetic field and most advanced of its kind in the world. A recent paper published in Nuclear Fusion by the Institute of Physics IOP Publishing provides an overview of results from our 2022-2023 campaigns, all of which are focussed on building the confidence, understanding and technology that supports the spherical tokamak as the optimal route to commercial #fusionenergy. In 2022, we achieved a record plasma ion temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius, demonstrating that #fusion relevant temperatures can be achieved in a compact, high-field spherical tokamak. More recently, we’ve explored high performance, high confinement (H-mode) plasmas, solenoid free start-up, plasma exhaust, and non-inductive scenarios. Our work is supported by a first-of-a-kind private-public partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, enabling scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to actively participate in ST40 research. This shared research is directly informing the design of the next generation of fusion pilot plants that will demonstrate grid-ready fusion energy. Energy that we believe will be delivered by governments and industry working together. Read the full paper here: 👇 https://lnkd.in/eEKeYqD6 #FusionForAll #CleanEnergyTransition #Innovation
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The September sun was shining on the first Tokamak Energy Partner Summit in historic Oxford yesterday. We were delighted to host such an inspiring event at Brasenose College, University of Oxford for our guests who had travelled from all over the world to unite in the race to deliver clean and secure #fusionenergy. We were honoured to be joined by Dr Adam Baker from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero who discussed the UK approach and explained how “the case for pursuing fusion energy is very strong”, with multiple benefits and value on the way. It links directly into the Government’s mission for the nation to be a clean energy superpower and to kickstart economic growth, he added. Tokamak Energy CEO Warrick Matthews said after the event: “Our mission is to make commercial #fusion a reality, and we believe the only way to be able to deploy fusion technologies and devices at scale is by developing strong partnerships. Our first Partner Summit was a great opportunity to share our vision and help build a more complete ecosystem of partners to overcome the challenges ahead. We hope the event will become a regular date in the calendar and continue to grow as we move towards a clean and secure #energyfuture.” As well as interactive panel discussions inside the college first founded in 1509, guests were introduced to some of the company’s latest results and technologies by a team of experts. This included a look at one of the high temperature #superconducting (HTS) magnets built as part of the world-first Demo4 project and a virtual reality tour of a spherical tokamak. Attending the event were ATI, AtkinsRéalis, Eni, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC GROUP, General Atomics, Google, Hitachi, IHI Corporation, Jacobs, Kyoto Fusioneering, Siemens Energy, SIMIC, Sumitomo Corporation, Thales Westinghouse Electric Company #fusionenergy #FusionForAll #cleanenergy #energysecurity