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.
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
November 2016 | Artem Smirnov | CAARI | Presentation
Neutral beam-driven field reversed configuration offers reactor advantages.
TAE Technologies was featured in the Scientific American magazine article, “Can Small Fusion Energy Start Ups Conquer the Problems that Killed the Giants?”
October 2016 | M. Beall | APS-DPP | Poster
Upgraded interferometer/polarimeter on center plane of machine to provide high resolution density and magnetic field information.
October 2016 | I. Allfrey | APS-DPP | Poster
Fusion plasmas require long lifetimes and high temperatures, both of which are limited by particle loss, among other factors.
October 2016 | Dima Osin | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2U is a macroscopically stable, high-performance field-reversed configuration (HPF), where high plasma temperatures with significant fast-ion population and record lifetimes were achieved.
October 2016 | L. Steinhauer | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2U facility at TAE Technologies creates an advanced, beam-driven FRC with large ion orbits. The plasma is sustained for > 5ms.
October 2016 | Francesco Checcerini | APS-DPP | Poster
The goal of TAE’s experiments is to sustain through the of use of neutral beam heating and edge biasing an advanced beam-driven FRC for many milliseconds, i.e., well beyond the growth times of common instabilities.
October 2016 | Nathan Bolte | APS-DPP | Poster
In the TAE Technologies C-2U experiment, advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas were sustained via tangential neutral beam injection.