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25/12/2025 20:09
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25/12/2025 20:09
25/12/2025 20:09
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Fecha: 25/12/2025 18:10
Building a fusion energy plant capable of powering thousands of homes can be a challenging task. With one of the criteria being able to generate a plasma temperature as hot as the sun, only a few companies are capable of taking on this challenge. This article delves into how this can be done. Tokamak Energy announces details of the pilot fusion energy plant design Tokamak Energy has announced the details of its pilot plant design plans. This pilot plant is expected to generate a fusion power of 800 MW and a net electricity of 85MW. The plant is a part of the United States Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy program. The energy proposed to be generated from this plant is expected to power about 70,000 residential homes. Tokamak Energy explains that if everything goes well, the plant should be fully functional by mid-2030s. Some details about this artificial sun reactor design At the annual meeting of the American Physical Societys Division of Plasma Physics in Atlanta, Tokamak Energy provided details about the design of the plant. Some details of the initial design include the following: - Aspect ratio of 2.0 - Plasma major radius of 4.25 meters - Magnetic field of 4.25 Tesla - Liquid lithium tritium breeding blanket Together with these details, there will be high-temperature superconducting magnets to confine and control the deuterium and tritium hydrogen fuel in a plasma temperature of about 100 million degrees Celsius. Tokamak Energy is best suited for this project Tokamak Energy was founded in 2009 and was cut off from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Its United States branch was established in 2019. By 2022, Tokamak Energy became the first company to achieve a plasma concentration of 100 million degrees Celsius in its ST40 spherical tokamak the temperature needed for fusion energy. Also, Tokamak Energy remains the only company with at least 10 years of experience in designing, building, and operating tokamaks. To boost fusion energy research and development, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Bhas a old Decadal Vision plan to use public-private partnerships to enable commercially relevant fusion pilot plants. Tokamak Energy, which was the first private firm to reach the threshold temperature, had linked with national laboratories in the United States and also some universities. The company also received seven awards through the US Innovation Network for Fusion Energy and signed an agreement to participate in the DOEs $46 million milestone-based fusion development program, just like this strange purple storm generating clean fusion energy. According to Michael Ginsberg, the president of Tokamak Energy, he said, The first design details of our high-field spherical tokamak created excitement at the American Physical Society event. We are delighted by the reception from an expert crowd and energized by our mission to demonstrate net power from this pilot plant in the mid-2030s, paving the way for globally deployable carbon-free fusion energy. We now look forward to working with our partners in the U.S to evolve and progress this design. The fusion energy reaction is carbon-free The research behind fusion energy aims to copy the process in which the sun works. How does the sun work? When light atomic nuclei fuse, they form heavier nuclei, releasing a large amount of energy in the process. To make this process feasible, fuel is heated at high temperatures, at least ten times hotter than the center of the sun, to form a plasma, which is the medium for the fusion reaction. Fuel is important for this fusion reaction; however, there are no carbon emissions into the environment. The energy generated from a fusion reaction can be used by commercial power stations to generate electricity. However, a major challenge is achieving a rate of heat emitted by a fusion plasma that exceeds the rate of energy injected into the plasma. By the mid-2030s, this project should be completed if everything goes according to plan. Considering their experience and collaborations with national laboratories, Tokamak Energy is the best company for this project. The goal is to power up to 70,000 homes, similar to this advanced Spanish photovoltaic device, generating clean energy.
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