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    Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough 2025 Using High Temperature Superconductor HTS:

    • MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
    New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.



    This large-bore, full-scale high-temperature superconducting magnet designed and built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has demonstrated a record-breaking 20 tesla magnetic field. It is the strongest fusion magnet in the world.

    Collaborative team working on the magnet inside the test stand housed at MIT. Research, construction and testing of this magnet has been the single largest activity for the SPARC team, which has grown to include 270 members.



    Spool of high-temperature superconducting tape used in the new class of fusion magnet. The magnet built and tested by CFS and MIT contains 267 km (166 mi) of tape, which is the distance from Boston, MA to Albany, NY.



    A team of engineers and scientists from CFS and MIT’s PSFC lower the superconducting magnet into the test stand in which the magnet was cooled and powered to produce a magnetic field of 20 tesla.



    Director of the PSFC Dennis Whyte (L) and CEO of CFS Bob Mumgaard (R) in the test hall at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. The collaboration which began over three years ago with the formation of Commonwealth Fusion Systems now moves to the next phase, building SPARC, which will be the world’s device to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.



    Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

    It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it consumes, according to the project’s leaders at MIT and startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).That advance paves the way, they say, for the long-sought creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could make a major contribution to limiting the effects of global climate change.

    “Fusion in a lot of ways is the ultimate clean energy source,” says Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics. “The amount of power that is available is really game-changing.” The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimited resource. We just have to figure out how to utilize it.”

    Developing the new magnet is seen as the greatest technological hurdle to making that happen; its successful operation now opens the door to demonstrating fusion in a lab on Earth, which has been pursued for decades with limited progress. With the magnet technology now successfully demonstrated, the MIT-CFS collaboration is on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025.

    “The challenges of making fusion happen are both technical and scientific,” says Dennis Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, which is working with CFS to develop SPARC. But once the technology is proven, he says, “it’s an inexhaustible, carbon-free source of energy that you can deploy anywhere and at any time. It’s really a fundamentally new energy source.”

    Whyte, who is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, says this week’s demonstration represents a major milestone, addressing the biggest questions remaining about the feasibility of the SPARC design. “It’s really a watershed moment, I believe, in fusion science and technology,” he says.
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    • Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough in Magnetic Confinement [High-Temperature Superconductors]

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    • A Star in a Bottle: The Quest for Commercial Fusion:



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    • If it finally works ... it may also be used in the near future for a.o. Ion Drives in Space?
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    • Re-Fusion to Give Up! Magnetic Fusion Breakthrough:

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    • Germany's New Nuclear Fusion Reactor SHOCKS The Entire Industry!

    Nuclear Fusion has potential beyond what you can imagine. It has the potential to power the stars. It can offer practically infinite energy with zero carbon emissions if it can be recreated on Earth. And unlike the current nuclear fission technology, Nuclear Fusion does not produce any long-term radioactive waste. For decades, the technology has appeared to be just out of reach, yet the reward is so great that billions of dollars continue to flow into the field. However, Germany's foremost plasma research facility has set a new record with its new Nuclear Fusion Reactor, demonstrating that we are moving closer to the wonderful objective of fusion power - an almost endless source of clean, renewable energy.
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    • Is Nuclear Fusion the answer to LIMITLESS Clean Energy?!:

    Nuclear fusion is the most naturally occurring method of creating energy which if cracked, promises cheap, clean and abundant energy. Unfortunately for scientists, it also happens to occur in the Sun… Achieving these extreme and brutal conditions of the sun in a lab on earth is immensely difficult and has presented countless scientific and engineering challenges in the decades long plight for making fusion a reality. No wonder the joke has been that Fusion is always 30 years away. However, now armed with huge injections of private investment it seems that fusion might be shaking its elusive reputation. Helen visited Tokamak energy to see how close they’re getting to making Nuclear Fusion commercially viable and into the grid. Brace yourself for some mega magnets, mind-boggling numbers and a touch of Czerski scepticism as Fully Charged explore this mysterious lab nestled in the heart of Oxfordshire.

    Timestamps:
    • 0:00 Introduction
    • 1:41 How did scientists discover Nuclear Fusion?
    • 2:47 What’s a Tokamak?
    • 3:16 What’s going on inside a reactor?
    • 5:08 Fusion explained…with grapes!
    • 7:17 15 million degrees!
    • 10:14 MASSIVE Magnets
    • 13:35 Will it happen?
    • 15:04 Conclusion
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