Modeling feedback control of unstable separatrix location in beam-driven field-reversed configurations
March 2017 | Niko Rath | AIP Publishing | Paper
We present a linear, one-parameter model for rigid displacement of a toroidally symmetric plasma.
Enhanced fusion reactivity in the beam-driven field reversed configuration
March 2017 | R. Magee | TAE Technologies | Paper
A dramatic enhancement of the deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction rate – 100x beyond thermonuclear – is observed from a field reversed configuration plasma during high power hydrogen beam injection.
The Fusion Underground
Nikkei Science featured TAE Technologies in the March 2017 edition of their magazine.
Is alluring but elusive fusion energy possible in our lifetime?
Watch Miles O’Brien feature TAE Technologies on PBS NewsHour. “In Southern California, this complex, power- hungry machine is hard at work on a seemingly quixotic mission – akin to catching lightning in a bottle.”
Equilibrium properties of hybrid field reversed configurations
January 2017 | M. Tuszewski | Physics of Plasma | Paper
Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs) heated by neutral beam injection may include a large fast ion pressure that significantly modifies the equilibrium. A new analysis is required to characterize such hybrid FRCs, as the simple relations used up to now prove inaccurate.
Le Scienze
Le Scienze featured TAE Technologies in the January 2017 edition of their magazine.
Entrepreneurial spirit and fusion research
January 2017 | GOTA Hiroshi | The Journal of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research | Paper
TAE Technologies is one of the companies that conduct fusion research in the entrepreneurial approach. It is often asked why and how such research in the large scale and long range may be carried out based on private funds. English version included.
Suppressed ion-scale turbulence in a hot high-beta plasma
December 2016 | L. Schmitz | Nature Communications | Paper
An economic magnetic fusion reactor favours a high ratio of plasma kinetic pressure to magnetic pressure in a well-confined, hot plasma with low thermal losses across the confining magnetic field.
FRC separatrix inference using machine learning techniques
November 2016 | J. Romero | APS-DPP | Presentation
Method to infer the FRC separatrix geometry and axial stability properties of the equilibrium developed. Tested with equilibrium code simulations
Accelerator Technology Development at TAE Technologies
November 2016 | Artem Smirnov | CAARI | Presentation
Neutral beam-driven field reversed configuration offers reactor advantages.