QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain ...

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have unveiled a groundbreaking computer code, QUADCOIL, that ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

The Stellaris design described in Fusion Engineering and Design provides a maximum of 2.7 GW of fusion energy, resulting in ...

The original stellarator design ... But the reactor involves 425 tons of specifically-shaped superconducting magnets and the subsequent cooling apparatus. They ran into manufacturing troubles ...

these magnets are the only major risk in the entire ... Whether ARC, another tokamak design, or perhaps a stellarator derived from the Wendelstein project will be the first to show the way to ...

cable technology to develop its proprietary stellarator fusion magnets. Type One Energy said in a media release the licensing agreement allows it to benefit from CFS’ experience in manufacturing ...

The agreement between the two companies also expands the market for CFS' magnet business by aligning with the leading stellarator fusion company in the market, Type One Energy.

To do this, a stellarator needs a complex magnetic field: it is ring-shaped and twisted. To generate this, the magnetic coils must be irregularly shaped. The Wendelstein 7-X could only be realized ...

Twisting the magnets can also produce the helical shape without the need for a transformer — this kind of configuration is called a stellarator. (Image: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, ...

This research shows how sophisticated computer programs are critical to developing stellarator fusion facilities. "One of the major challenges in designing stellarators is that the magnets can ...