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⚛️ NEW: Researchers at #Tokamak Energy recorded #plasma inside the ST40 spherical tokamak with a high-speed color camera running at 16,000 fps.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-plasma-erupt-in-full-color-inside-a-fusion-reactor-at-16000-fps
#fusion #plasma #tokamak #physics #energy #science #engineering #lithium #reactor #stem #technology #tech #research #video
Ten years later, MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak is *still* of use. I see new research papers circulating that include what we learned on C-Mod. For example, you can validate computer models to see if your simulations match actual results recorded on C-Mod.
Here's a blog post I wrote about the 10th anniversary of the final day of operations at C-Mod, the progenitor to CFS's SPARC and ARC tokamaks.
https://blog.cfs.energy/how-the-alcator-c-mod-tokamak-blazed-the-cfs-trail-to-fusion-power/
https://www.europesays.com/people/249462/ Bill Gates-backed nuclear fusion firm inks 6200-mile reactor tape deal #BillGates #CommonwealthFusionSystems #NuclearFusion #NuclearReactor #tokamak
Fusion in Europe?
The world needs more ways to make Fusion power that is economically viable for commercial use.
Proxima Energy’s approach represents a pragmatic, engineering-driven path to commercial fusion. The European ecosystem is competitive, well-funded, and focused on economic viability over pure physics achievements.
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Here is a concise summary of the transcript, current European fusion landscape, and scientific observations on the technology’s trajectory.
📜 Video Recap: The Startup That Just Took the Lead in Global Fusion #011
Core Message
Proxima Energy is leading Europe’s next generation of compact tokamak fusion reactors by building on Stellaris design principles, using superconducting magnets and multi-objective engineering optimization to achieve cost-effective, scalable clean energy.
🔑 Key Points from the Transcript
TopicSummaryFusion BasicsFusion fuses two atomic nuclei (e.g., deuterium + tritium) under extreme heat/pressure (~100–150 million °C), releasing energy and neutrons. Unlike the sun’s proton-proton chain, Earth uses D-T fusion for efficiency.Magnetic ConfinementTwisted superconducting magnets create a high-density plasma cage, compressing particles toward each other. Permanent magnets are insufficient; superconductors carry hundreds of thousands of amps at −250 °C with zero resistance.Stellaris Architecture3D-printed twisted magnets form stacked “pancake” layers. ~40–50 magnets per reactor. Designed for commercial viability before early 2030s.Divertor & BlanketDivertor exhausts fusion ashes and handles massive heat loads; blanket extracts neutron energy as steam, drives turbines, and breeds tritium for self-sustaining fuel cycles.Net Energy (Q≥1)Proxima’s Alpha device targets Q ≥ 1 — outputting more energy than inputted via alpha-particle self-heating of plasma, eliminating external microwave heating.Economic VisionFusion complements renewables by providing reliable, dispatchable clean power. Abundant fusion energy could desalinate water, restore ice caps, and extract CO₂ from the atmosphere.Engineering FocusMulti-objective optimization balances magnet feasibility, structural steel loads, cryogenics, microwaves, and economic viability. Engineering-driven, not physics-only, approach to commercialization.🌍 European Fusion Startups: 2025–2026 Landscape
Major Players
CompanyRouteMilestone / Status (2025)FundingProxima EnergyCompact tokamakAlpha device targeting Q≥1 by early 2030s; first-power reactor development in progress€150M+ total raisedCommon Fusion Systems (CFS)Advanced tokamak1 MW demo machine under construction in Germany~€30M raisedTAE TechnologiesHigh-beta tokamak (US/EU partnerships)Alpha-2 reactor testing; EU R&D grants active$150M+ totalHelion EnergyCompact tokamakH2 machine prototype under test in Australia/UK~$385M raisedFusion Energy Sciences (TES)Advanced tokamakUS-based, but EU collaborations; compact reactor design$1B+ totalInvestment & Policy Context
Competitive Landscape
🔬 Scientific Insights
1. Why Compact Tokamaks Are Winning
Traditional tokamaks like ITER require massive infrastructure due to scaling laws: , where is minor radius. Proxima’s approach uses advanced superconducting magnets and plasma shaping to decouple power from size, enabling commercial viability at smaller scale.
2. The Q≥1 Barrier
Achieving Q ≥ 1 in a compact reactor requires:
Proxima’s design targets this via optimized plasma geometry and high-β operation.
3. Tritium Breeding Challenge
Self-sustaining tritium breeding requires a blanket with sufficient neutron capture cross-sections, thermal conductivity, and structural integrity under neutron flux (>14 MeV). This remains an unresolved engineering challenge for all fusion companies.
4. Economic Viability vs. Physics Maturity
European startups are prioritizing economic metrics (cost per MW, build time) over pure performance benchmarks. This shift reflects the reality that fusion must compete with cheap renewables + storage, not just outperform them in lab settings.
🧭 Outlook & Risks
RiskMitigation StrategyScaling LawsCompact designs may not scale to gigawatt output without new physics insightsTritium BreedingBlanket materials research continues; no proven commercial design existsCapital IntensityHigh upfront costs require sustained government/private fundingTimeline PressureQ≥1 by 2025–2027 is aggressive; realistic first-power likely 2030+✅ Conclusion
Proxima Energy’s approach represents a pragmatic, engineering-driven path to commercial fusion. The European ecosystem is competitive, well-funded, and focused on economic viability over pure physics achievements. While Q≥1 remains a significant hurdle, the compact tokamak route with advanced superconducting magnets offers a plausible pathway to first-power reactors by the early 2030s. Fusion will not replace renewables but can complement them as a reliable, dispatchable clean energy source.
#Europe #Fusion #NuclearPower #Nuclearfusion #Stem #Eufoundry #energy #nuclear #science #technology #tokamak
https://www.europesays.com/people/226127/ Hyundai Motor backs Bill Gates-funded fusion firm in $1 billion raise #BillGates #BillGates'NuclearFirm #Energy&Environment #NuclearFusion #tokamak
Hyundai Motor backs Bill Gates-funded fusion firm in $1 billion raise
Bill Gates-backed US nuclear fusion firm Commonwealth Fusion Systems has secured an investment from South Korea’s Hyundai Motor…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Hyundai #BillGates'nuclearfirm #Energy&Environment #HyundaiGroup #HyundaiMotorGroup #nuclearfusion #tokamak
https://www.europesays.com/korea/152793/
What exactly is a tokamak? 🤔
It's a machine designed to harness fusion, the process that powers the stars. At its core: a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber where hydrogen becomes plasma at 150 million °C, ten times hotter than the Sun's core, confined by massive magnetic coils.
ITER, in France, will be the largest ever built.
Curious? Read more: https://buff.ly/1EAo2xx
#Fusion #Tokamak #ITER #Physics #Science #Energy
Helical Fusion Named Final Candidate for Japan’s METI Fusion Program » World Business Outlook
Helical Fusion Co., Ltd., a fusion energy company developing a Helical Stellarator toward commercially viable fusion power, has…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Business #BusinessofJapan #energy #fusion #Helical #helix #Japan'sbusiness #Japanesebusiness #manufacturing #METI #stellarator #superconducting #technology #Tokamak #WBO
https://www.europesays.com/japan/83578/
#Fusion #Stellarator #Tokamak #Surveillance #Enshittification #Dictionary #Google
This morning I am thinking about all of the scientific terminology related to fusion reactors I added to my personal dictionaries lately and about properly spelling "enshittification" with two t's rather than one.
Because I'm a bit of a cybersecurity wonk I often use task specific browses and accounts, some of them from fully walled off disposable one time use virtual machines, and I get to see the very weird assumptions the fiends at the monopolies make based on limited information provided to their ubiquitous surveillance systems.
While I do not need a vast array of personal spectroscopic lab equipment starting at the low, low, discount act-now price of $25,000 and going up from there, I do have a YouTube/Google account that runs to ads hawking that sort of equipment and very nice high resolution digital microscopes, which granted might be very useful kitchen accessories given that the food supply is no longer inspected or safe, but are quite out of my financial reach no matter how cool it would be to examine my salads before they send me to the ER. The people at the Googlag seem to believe I may have access to an institutional equipment budget due to the materials science reading I do and the physics videos I watch.
From time to time I reinforce their erroneous assumptions by doing price comparisons for gas spectrum analyzers and laboratory safety equipment that might be handy around the house.
https://www.europesays.com/cz/161828/ Čína dokončila rekordní 582tunový magnet pro „umělé Slunce“ #ČeskáRepublika #Česko #Čína #CRAFT(ComprehensiveResearchFacilityForFusionTechnology) #CzechRepublic #Czechia #Energie #FúzníReaktor #ITER #JadernáFúze #magnet #Tokamak
World’s largest fusion reactor adds HD Hyundai’s 5000-ton vacuum vessel part
Engineers at the ITER nuclear fusion facility in southern France have placed the final vacuum vessel sector module…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Hyundai #Energy&Environment #HyundaiGroup #HyundaiMotorGroup #ITER #nuclearfusion #tokamak
https://www.europesays.com/korea/96366/
HD Hyundai’s ITER Vacuum Vessel Sector Enters Final Assembly Stage
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Vice President Won Kwang-sik (left) poses with a plaque of appreciation alongside ITER Director-General…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #HDHyundaiHeavy #Cadarache #HDHyundaiHeavyIndustries #Hyundai #ITER #Korea-ITERFusionDay #KSTAR #nuclearfusion #tokamak #vacuumvesselsector
https://www.europesays.com/korea/95628/
Overview of the WEST contributions to the new ITER baseline and fusion power plants #tokamak #fusionenergy
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⚛️ What is ITER actually trying to achieve?
It is not a power plant. It is a research machine, designed to demonstrate that fusion energy is feasible at scale: 500 megawatts of fusion power from 50 megawatts of input, a tenfold energy return, sustained and controlled for the first time ever.
👉 https://buff.ly/3C6xMoZ
#FusionEnergy #ITER #NuclearFusion #Tokamak #CleanEnergy #Physics #EnergyScience
The Ultimate Energy Battle at AI’s End: Nuclear Fusion, Billion
This summer, as an investor in a fund, you’re likely to receive a stern warning from your boss:…
#Nuclear #AIandnuclearfusion #FRC #nuclear #nuclearfusion #nuclearfusioncommercialization #nuclearfusionfinancing #nuclearfusionindustry #nuclearfusioninvestment #nuclearfusionpowergeneration #nuclearfusiontechnologybreakthrough #tokamak
https://www.europesays.com/3101159/
⚛️ What does it actually take to make fusion energy work?
Temperatures above 150 million degrees Celsius. Sufficient plasma density. Long enough confinement time. All simultaneously. ITER uses a tokamak and powerful magnetic fields to achieve exactly that.
A fusion reaction releases nearly four million times more energy than burning fossil fuels.
👉 https://www.iter.org/fusion-energy/making-it-work
#FusionEnergy #ITER #Tokamak #PlasmaPhysics #CleanEnergy #NuclearFusion #Physics
https://www.europesays.com/ro/209143/ Cel mai mare sistem de magneţi superconductori din lume, cu componente uriaşe ce însumează 10.000 tone, prinde formă în Franţa | PiataAuto.md #10000 #Afaceri #Business #cel #componente #forma #franta #fuziune #iter #lume #magneti #MAI #mare #prinde #reactor #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #sistem #tokamak #tone
https://www.europesays.com/si/126275/ ITER: kako nastaja največji eksperimentalni fuzijski projekt na svetu #Fuzija #Iter #Plazma #Reaktor #Slovene #Slovenščina #Svet #Tokamak #World
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #CA #Canada #FusionEnergy #fusionmagnets #Fusionreactor #Magnet #Science #sphericaltokamak #tokamak
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/728747/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1018722/ 23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system #FusionEnergy #FusionMagnets #FusionReactor #magnet #Physics #Science #SphericalTokamak #tokamak #UK #UnitedKingdom
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #fusionenergy #fusionmagnets #Fusionreactor #Magnet #Science #sphericaltokamak #tokamak #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/631982/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/528868/ 23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system #Éire #FusionEnergy #FusionMagnets #FusionReactor #IE #Ireland #Magnet #Physics #Science #SphericalTokamak #tokamak
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Fusionenergy #fusionmagnets #Fusionreactor #Magnet #Science #sphericaltokamak #tokamak
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/696501/
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧵🌐 The hairy ball #theorem says you can’t comb a #sphere smooth without a cowlick somewhere.
The same rule explains why #Earth always has a #cyclone spinning, why #fusion reactors use #doughnut shapes, and why omnidirectional antennas can’t exist. #Wind patterns over the #Arctic and #Antarctic circles illustrate the proof.
👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-maths-hairy-ball-theorem-could-explain-bad-hair-days/
#topology #math #weather #hurricane #nuclearfusion #tokamak #plasma #science #hair
US lab snaps first hydrogen-uranium scan for nuclear fusion durability
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have observed and characterized the initial stages of hydrogen-uranium corrosion for…
#Nuclear #hydrogen #nuclear #nuclearfusion #tokamak #uranium
https://www.europesays.com/3029693/
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/103851/ Újraindítják a világ legnagyobb tokamakját, a JT-60SA-t #Business #FúziósEnergia #HU #Hungarian #Hungary #JT60SA #Magyar #Magyarország #tokamak #Vállalkozás
Llegan a Cadarache las últimas piezas del solenoide central de ITER, el corazón que encenderá y sostendrá el plasma a 150 millones °C. https://aidoo.news/noticia/W40ZRM
@DerLogiker Mehr Energie als man aufgewendet hat im physikalischen Sinn bezogen auf das Plasma, nicht im Ingenieursinn bezogen auf die gesamte Anlage, vermute ich.
Fusionsreaktor EAST: Chinesen brechen Dichtegrenze für stabiles Plasma
Interessanter Artikel bei Heise Online über Fortschritte beim EAST-Fussionsreaktor:
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #ExperimentalAdvancedSuperconductingTokamak #fusionenergy #plasmadensitylimit #plasma-wallself-organization #Science #tokamak
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/390697/
Các nhà nghiên cứu từ Dự án Tokamak Siêu Dẫn Tiến Tiến đã phá vỡ giới hạn mật độ plasma, mở đường cho năng lượng hợp hạch sạch hơn! Mô hình lý thuyết mới giúp điều khiển plasma vào vùng không mật độ, hứa hẹn cho tương lai của năng lượng. #NăngLượngHợpHạch #Tokamak #Plasma https://ift.tt/eVotlQ5
"Perhaps the ultimate absurdity...is that it will contain one of the hottest known places in the universe and one of the coldest, little more than a body’s length apart." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stars-nuclear-fusion-energy #fusion #ITER #tokamak
UK’s MAST Upgrade Tokamak Stabilizes Plasma with Edge Magnetic Fields https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/uks-mast-upgrade-tokamak-stabilizes-plasma-with-edge-magnetic-fields/ #nuclearfusion #Science #tokamak
UK’s MAST Upgrade Tokamak Stabilizes Plasma with Edge Magnetic Fields - Although nuclear fusion is exceedingly easy to achieve, as evidenced by desktop fu... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/uks-mast-upgrade-tokamak-stabilizes-plasma-with-edge-magnetic-fields/ #nuclearfusion #science #tokamak
i will write "фusion reactor" with a cyrillic f from now on because it looks like a tiny #tokamak 🤓
e520 with Michael, Andy and Michael - stories about #AI #advertising, still #photo #animation, #anime #agents, #PollenRobotics, #Unity #tokamak #fusion reactor #DigitalTwin. #LEGO and a whole lot more.
e520 with Michael, Andy and Michael - stories about #AI #advertising, still #photo #animation, #anime #agents, #PollenRobotics, #Unity #tokamak #fusion reactor #DigitalTwin. #LEGO and a whole lot more.
e520 with Michael, Andy and Michael - stories about #AI #advertising, still #photo #animation, #anime #agents, #PollenRobotics, #Unity #tokamak #fusion reactor #DigitalTwin. #LEGO and a whole lot more. https://gamesatwork.biz/2025/07/14/e520-cold-fusion-gaming/
Das Rätsel der Plasma-Turbulenzen in #Tokamak-Anlagen könnte gelöst sein: Physiker der Universität Kalifornien identifizieren "Voids" als fehlenden Baustein zwischen Theorie und Experiment. https://winfuture.de/news,151609.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
In a quiet corner of southern France, an international mega-project is forging ahead with its mission to demonstrate industrial-scale nuclear fusion. We got to take a look.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/fusion-finish-line-inside-iter-giant-tokamak
#fusion #nuclear #iter #technews #france #green #tokamak #energy #netzero
Der #Tokamak bekommt einen zweiten "Auspuff" verpasst! Mit einem zusätzlichen X-Punkt im Magnetfeld lässt sich die Fusionshitze nun endlich bändigen. Sozusagen Plasmatuning für bessere Abgaswerte - nur dass das Abgas hier 100 Millionen Grad heiß ist. https://winfuture.de/news,151310.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
It may not be in my lifetime, but with the progress they’re making I’m sure they’ll figure this out.
#FusionEnergy #FusionReactors #stellarator #tokamak #MagneticConfinement #Science #Breakthrough #ScienceNews https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/114494925302167400
Bild der Woche: Im Inneren eines Fusionsreaktors.
Wissenschaftler ermitteln radioaktives Potenzial der Gefäßwände. #Fusion #Kernfusion #Fusionsreaktor #Tokamak #Tritium
https://www.scinexx.de/fotos/im-inneren-eines-fusionsreaktors/
I'm deeply pessimist, I watched the ITER project years ago. Initially, the first test was slated for late 2025. Now, projections suggest it will be delayed to 2035–2039. IMHO, what began as an ambitious experiment over 60 years ago is maybe poised to culminate in failures. I was skeptic about the roadmap years ago and seems that I was right #tokamak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
