Michl Binderbauer, CEO of the privately funded alternative fusion developer TAE Technologies, applauds the report’s emphasis on public–private partnerships. “You are combining the strength of a DOE lab or university program with the end-product focus of the private sector,” he says, rather than the “more meandering” academic process. “A tighter adherence to schedules will help to drive efficiency in the process.”
December 2020 | T. Roche | HTPD 2020 | Poster
C-2W (or Norman) has achieved program goals. 60+ individual diagnostic systems. 1000s of channels total utilized to obtain and verify results.
December 2020 | M. Tobin | HTPD 2020 | Poster
First application of Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition for
MHD mode identification using magnetic field measurements
December 2020 | E. Granstedt | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Long axial direction compared to short symmetric azimuthal direction requires many imaging instruments to view the plasma throughout.
December 2020 | V. Sokolov | HTPD 2020 | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”), record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state.
December 2020 | J. Titus | HTPD 2020 | Poster
Four static beams (15 keV) and four tunable beams (15-40 keV) are currently operational on C-2W. A tungsten wire calorimeter was designed with the help of a two-dimensional heat transfer model to measure injected neutral beam power.
December 2020 | E. Parke | HTPD 2020 | Poster
On C-2W (also called “Norman”) record breaking, advanced beam- driven field-reversed-configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
December 2020 | R. Marshall | HTPD 2020 | Poster
9 neutral beam injectors (8 heating beams and 1 diagnostic beam) are installed on the central cell of C-2W.