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Re:Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' ... by nmca on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:28AM (#24636688)
Well now I really want to see the projected SPARC reactor on that plot. Does anyone have the necessary familiarity to add it?
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Re:Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' ... by sam on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:36AM (#24639860)
Author of that article and plot here. SPARC is projected to have energy gain Q >=2 and potentially up to 11[1]. ITER is projected to achieve Q of >=10[2] so I would guess that SPARC's expected triple product would be in the same ballpark as the projected ITER datapoint, perhaps slightly lower, though potentially the same. We'll see!

[1] http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001075

[2] https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2845

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