Reflections on Thanksgiving
Warm wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving from TAE Technologies + a message from our CEO Michl Binderbauer about things to be grateful for this year.
TAE Technologies Gains Renewed Admission into DOE INCITE Program to Further Fusion Energy Research
TAE Technologies’ modeling group has won a 2018 US Department of Energy INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) award on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Theta supercomputer. The award is for 31MCH (million core hours), which is equivalent to 100MCH on ALCF’s Blue Gene supercomputer, Mira, and will be used to accelerate our research in creating clean fusion energy.
First experimental measurements of a new fast ion driven micro-burst instability in a field-reversed configuration plasma
October 2018 | B. Deng | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
In modern F experiments at TAE Technologies, classical FRC instabilities are suppressed
by advanced neutral beam injection and edge biasing methods, leading to high plasma confinement and fast ion pressure built-up which is comparable to the bulk plasma pressure.
Characterization and calibration of the Thomson scattering diagnostic suite for the C-2W field-reversed configuration experiment
October 2018 | A. Ottaviano | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
The new C-2W Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostic consists of two individual subsystems for monitoring electron temperature (Te) and density (ne): one system in the central region is currently operational, and the second system is being commissioned to monitor the open field line region.