October 2021 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies, Inc. (TAE) is pursuing an alternative approach to magnetically confined fusion, which relies on field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas composed of mostly energetic…
August 2021 | M. Griswold | OS2021 | Presentation
Original array of diagnostics on C-2W’s divertor electrodes
demonstrated the functionality of C-2W’s expander divertors:
• Measured Ambipolar Potential of 4-5 Te
• Small Debye Sheath of ~1 Te
August 2021 | M. Kaur | OS2021 | Presentation
Negatively-applied biasing improves confinement by stabilizing global MHD modes
• Bias is most effective in narrow biasing configurations
• Comparison of three electrode configurations shown …
August 2021 | T. Roche | OS2021 | Presentation
TAE has developed the world’s premier FRC machine
• The C-2W Project has accomplished its goals:
• Steady state operation for > 30 ms
• Plasma parameter ramp up via NB heating and current drive …
August 2021 | S. Dettrick | OS2021 | Presentation
Equilibrium with large kinetic ion population
• Global Stability properties in presence of neutral beams
• Perpendicular Transport due to kinetic microturbulence
July 2021 | D.K. Gupta | Review of Scientific Instruments | Paper
A main ion charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (mChERS) diagnostic has been developed to measure the velocity and temperature of the main deuterium ions in the C-2W FRC device