April 2025 | T. Roche | Nature Communications | Paper
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current and increase plasma …
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.
October 2024 | S. Dettrick | APS DPP 2024 | Presentation
The C-2W experiment at TAE Technologies demonstrates steady-state field-reversed configurations with enhanced plasma stability and ion heating driven by neutral beams, supported by advanced modeling and diagnostics to optimize performance.
November 2023 | I. Sato | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
Experimentally verify that there is a change in plasma behavior at the limiter flux line in a high – plasma scenario
October 2022 | S. Gupta | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Develop 2-D Interpretative equilibrium solver SEquOIA (Synthetic Equilibrium from Observables Interpretative Algorithm) for long lived steady state C-2W plasma
June 2022 | J. Romero | TOFE | Presentation
C-2W is the world’s first steady-state FRC with fusion relevant parameters, C-2W machine and diagnostics are upgraded often in response to the research needs.