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The UK's Tokamak Energy has set up TE Magnetics as it seeks to commercialise its high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology for both fusion and non-fusion applications.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 September 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fusion-firm-Tokamak-launches-spin-off-HTS-magnet-d
UK-based Tokamak Energy says that the digital twin computer software means it will be able to maximise the impact of each experiment without needing to test multiple scenarios in the physical machine.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 14 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tokamak-Energy-to-use-digital-twin-with-ST40-fusio
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Czech Republic research organisation Centrum výzkumu Rež (CVR), have signed a multi-year use of facility agreement. This will enable unique testing of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes, critical for the development of the UK’s prototype fusion energy powerplant, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). These tapes are intended to confine STEP’s fusion plasma, a superheated gas of hydrogen isotopes, in a tokamak. Under intense heat – 150m degrees celsius, ten times hotter than the core of the sun – and pressure, the isotopes fuse into helium, releasing energy as neutrons.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 May 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukaea-signs-agreement-with-cv-to-test-step-components-11746651
Results will be used in project to build prototype Step reactor
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uk-and-czech-republic-to-work-together-on-crucial-testing-5-4-2024
High temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes for use in the UK's prototype fusion power plant will be tested in a Czech research reactor following the signing of an agreement between the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Research Centre Řež.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/STEP-components-to-undergo-testing-in-Czech-resear
UK-based Tokamak Energy is developing new laser measurement technology to control extreme conditions inside future fusion power. Plasma temperatures inside a tokamak reach over 100m degrees Celsius. The hydrogen fuel must be closely and accurately measured by a specialist laser system to keep the hot plasma stable, hold density and maintain fusion conditions.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energy-to-develop-new-laser-technology-for-fusion-plant-operations-11616489
UK-based nuclear fusion company Tokamak Energy said it is developing new laser measurement technology crucial for controlling extreme conditions inside future fusion power plants and delivering clean energy to the grid.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tokamak-Energy-developing-new-laser-technology
The Joint European Torus (JET) produced the largest amount of energy achieved in a fusion experiment during its final round of deuterium-tritium experiments, breaking its own record set in 2021.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-world-record-set-in-JET-s-final-fusion-experim
UK-based Tokamak Energy’s superconducting magnet system, which is being built to replicate fusion energy power plant forces, has passed significant milestone cryogenic tests. Creating fusion energy requires strong magnetic fields to confine and control the extremely hot hydrogen fuel, which becomes a plasma several times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energys-fusion-magnet-system-passes-cryogenic-tests-11159891
UK-based Tokamak Energy in February announced that it had built the first set of new generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to be assembled and tested in fusion power plant-relevant scenarios. The magnets are intended for use in Tokamak’s planned ST-E1 fusion pilot plant expected to demonstrate the capability of delivering electricity into the grid in the early 2030s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energys-magnets-to-be-tested-at-sandia-laboratories-10806895