November 2025 | J. Barrett | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
Maintaining ultra-high vacuum is critical for sustaining high-performance field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in TAE’s latest fusion device—Norm [1]. Titanium gettering plays a pivotal role in maintaining vessel base pressures of 1 ” 10!” Torr or lower, suppressing impurities in the vessel…
November 2025 | R. Groenewald | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
Overview of NORM (C-2W) Fusion Device –
NORM uses Neutral Beams and End-Biasing Systems to form and sustain either Mirror Plasmas or Field-Reversed
Configurations (FRCs) – see Roche et al., Nature Comm, 16, 3487 (2025) for NBI formed FRC report.
November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …
November 2025 | T. Roche | APS DPP 2025 | Paper
We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. This is achieved by trapping the steady-state beams in an initial seed plasma, hence providing a direct source of toroidally directed energetic ion current …
October 2025 | N. Sheth (Univ. of Saskatchewan) | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
It is shown that transonic plasma acceleration in the converging–diverging magnetic field (magnetic nozzle) follows the unique global solution which is fully defined by the magnetic field.