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 | G. Player | APS DPP 2023 | Poster
The C-2W advanced beam-driven FRC device utilizes 15-40 keV neutral beams to create a large population of fast ions, which are critically important for FRC heating, current drive, and stabilization.
February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper
Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…
October 2022 | S. Kamio | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
Fast ion tail was observed at more than the injection beam energy of 15 keV. In particular, the effective tail temperature of fast deuterium ion was notably high
October 2022 | J. Titus | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
There are eight heating neutral beam injectors and one diagnostics neutral beam injector on the C-2W experiment
October 2022 | G. Player | APS-DPP 2022 | Poster
The suite of fast ion diagnostics on the C-2W device include neutral particle analyzers (NPAs), scintillating neutron detectors, silicon proton detectors, and particle bolometers