November 2025 | A. Bondarenko | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion research device C-2W1 utilizes neutral beam injection and edge biasing to sustain long-lived, stable field reversed configuration (FRC)2 plasma embedded within a magnetic mirror.
November 2025 | M. Nations | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ C-2W device has achieved stable, beam-driven Field-Reversed Configurations (FRCs) maintained for up to 40 ms. Recent advances include real-time plasma control, enhanced fueling via pellets and compact toroids, and the commissioning of new cyclotron resonance heating systems.
November 2025 | T. DeHaas | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
A prototype Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) system has been developed for C-2W, a beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment at TAE Technologies.
November 2025 | S. Karbashewski | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
• Diagnostics, Beams, and Plasma Parameters
• Dynamic mirror shaping
• Magnetic Mirror Experiments
• Mirror-to-FRC Transition
• Multiple Fast-Ion Species
• 2D (Q2D) and 3D (WarpX) observations
• Validation of experimental results
November 2025 | R. Groenewald | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
Overview of NORM (C-2W) Fusion Device –
NORM uses Neutral Beams and End-Biasing Systems to form and sustain either Mirror Plasmas or Field-Reversed
Configurations (FRCs) – see Roche et al., Nature Comm, 16, 3487 (2025) for NBI formed FRC report.