October 2024 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion device, C-2W (also called ‘Norman’), is the world’s largest compact-toroid device and has made significant progress in field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma performance.
November 2023 | Y. Musthafa | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
C-2W’s ensemble of neutral
beams includes four static energy 15 keV H/D beams, four tunable energy 15-40 keV H/D beams, and one 40 keV diagnostic beam.
November 2023 | Y. Fujiwara | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The FIDA spectrum was extracted from active measurements using a midplane array of sightlines passing through a diagnostic neutral beam.
November 2023 | S. Karbashewski | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
A workhorse diagnostic for investigating magnetic fluctuations in C-2W is a
Mirnov probe array comprising 3-axis magnetic probes for sensing “B-dot”
fluctuations at the CV wall arranged in evenly spaced rings.
November 2023 | R. Smith | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Pulsed polarimetry is a LIDAR technique which uses the intensity and state of polarization of the emission to yield local measurements of density
November 2023 | M. Litton | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
By adjusting gas settings in each NB, this neutral flux was minimized. Localized wall heating was reduced and fast ion confinement times in the FRC plasma were improved by 25%.