QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain ...
The Stellaris design described in Fusion Engineering and Design provides a maximum of 2.7 GW of fusion energy, resulting in ...
The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain.
Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...
Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have unveiled a groundbreaking computer code, QUADCOIL, that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dubbed Stellaris, the machine is a quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator with high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. This type of reactor uses complex, twisted magnetic fields to confine hot ...
Fusion power in the next decade Stellaris is designed to produce much more power per unit volume than any stellarator power plant ever designed before. The much stronger magnetic fields that are ...