TAE Technologies’ “Norm” Tour:
A Milestone in Fusion Science
This guided experience offers a rare, firsthand look at “Norm,” the reconfigured and optimized successor to our fifth-generation National Laboratory-scale device, “Norman.”
Purpose-built to validate TAE’s proprietary advanced beam-driven Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) approach, Norm now operates with significantly greater efficiency and performance.
Through strategic reengineering, Norm has been streamlined to deliver best-in-class plasma performance with approximately 50% less system complexity and cost, while achieving a historic first in fusion science: forming, heating and sustaining FRC plasma using only neutral-beam injection (NBI).
Norm supports hundreds of experiments per month, as we drive toward our broader mission: commercial fusion power based on aneutronic and globally abundant hydrogen-boron fuel for a sustainable, scalable power solution for the planet.This visit is designed for scientists, engineers and technical stakeholders across disciplines who are advancing the future of energy, advanced physics and electrification technologies
We welcome your interest in seeing the systems, strategies and science behind TAE’s pathway to grid-ready fusion.
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TAE’s proprietary fusion architectureExplore how TAE’s linear device differs fundamentally from traditional tokamaks. The FRC self-organizes plasma and generates its own confining magnetic field. This approach significantly reduces external magnetic hardware, simplifies construction and maintenance, and improves power efficiency.
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Advantages of hydrogen-boron (p-B11) fuelLearn why TAE is committed to pursuing hydrogen-boron (p-B11) fusion: a safe, clean and abundant fuel cycle that produces only helium as a byproduct — with no neutrons in the primary reaction and no long-lived nuclear waste. Though it requires higher plasma temperatures, TAE’s approach is uniquely suited to achieve this reaction efficiently.
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Reduced cost and complexity through reconfigurationUnderstand how Norm was streamlined by removing approximately 50% of legacy hardware, resulting in a leaner, more efficient system that maintains peak experimental output with lower overhead, cost and operational complexity.
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Proprietary power storage and delivery platformSee our custom-built power management technology that enables delivery of up to 750 megawatts of peak power per experiment in precise pulses, comparable to the output of a large-scale power plant. Originally developed to support the energy needs of fusion experiments, this technology is now being commercialized by our spinoff company TAE Power Solutions for advanced energy storage and e-mobility systems.
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Advanced particle accelerator technologyLearn how TAE’s proprietary NBI system forms, heats and stabilizes plasma. This technology also underpins our TAE Life Sciences spinoff company, which is advancing a minimally invasive cancer treatment, called Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT).
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AI, machine learning and real-time active feedback controlDiscover how our integrated control system combines data-driven modeling, diagnostics and adaptive algorithms to execute, monitor, and optimize over 800 fusion experiments per month, dramatically accelerating learning cycles and system performance.