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 featured TAE Technologies in the January 2017 edition of their magazine.
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.
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.