Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by wcarss on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:53PM
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Yes, the video above is basically about this, and is really worth watching -- it's a fantastic talk.
I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth Fusion Systems[0] is the entity affiliated with MIT that has been doing work to prove out the recently available higher magnetic field strength superconducting materials and apply them to tokamak construction to bring size down dramatically. They had a bunch of press in 2018/2019 when they first got underway[1], and it looks like they've received a lot more investment over the last few years and likely made quite some progress since then[2].
I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth Fusion Systems[0] is the entity affiliated with MIT that has been doing work to prove out the recently available higher magnetic field strength superconducting materials and apply them to tokamak construction to bring size down dramatically. They had a bunch of press in 2018/2019 when they first got underway[1], and it looks like they've received a lot more investment over the last few years and likely made quite some progress since then[2].
0 - https://cfs.energy/ 1 - https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/03/09/new-approach-... (op-ed in the Boston Globe by a Vice President at MIT) 2 - https://cfs.energy/press/