Tucked in an unmarked industrial building in Foothill Ranch, the physicists at secretive nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies believe they have moved a step closer to achieving viable fusion energy – the holy grail of sustainable energy.
A secretive start-up claims to have made a breakthrough in creating fusion power, a limitless source of energy.
In an unassuming building in an unassuming industrial park south of Los Angeles, nuclear physicists are smashing together rings of plasma at one million kilometers per hour, producing temperatures on the order of a hundred-million degrees Celsius.
In a suburban industrial park south of Los Angeles, researchers have taken a significant step toward mastering nuclear fusion—a process that could provide abundant, cheap, and clean energy.
May 2015 | M. Binderbauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Conventional field-reversed configurations (FRCs), high-beta, prolate compact toroids embedded in poloidal magnetic fields, face notable stability and confinement concerns.