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Helion Energy Achieves 100 Million Degrees Celsius Fusion Fuel Temperature and Confirms 16-Month Continuous Operation of Its Fusion Generator Prototype

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Other Energy, Utilities, Environment, Alternative energy, Energy, Engineering, Nuclear, Manufacturing, Fusion power, Physical sciences, Physics, Natural sciences, Plasma physics, Divertor, Accelerator physics, Nuclear fusion, Nuclear physics, Helion

Helion Energy (Helion), a clean electricity company committed to creating a new era of clean energy through fusion, today became the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in their 6th fusion generator prototype, Trenta.

Key Points: 
  • Helion Energy (Helion), a clean electricity company committed to creating a new era of clean energy through fusion, today became the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in their 6th fusion generator prototype, Trenta.
  • Reaching this temperature is a critical engineering milestone as it is considered the ideal fuel temperature at which a commercial power plant would need to operate.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210622005366/en/
    The Divertor of Trenta, Helion's 6th fusion generator prototype.
  • Lastly, this presentation will phenomenologically discuss the operational results of the Mark-I scientific divertor with a focus on long-term operation.

MHI Completes Four TF Coils for ITER

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Monday, May 24, 2021
ITER, Science diplomacy, Electromagnetic coil, Divertor, Electromagnetism, Tokamaks, Electrical engineering

MHI completed the world's first TF coil for ITER in January 2020, holding a ceremony at its Futami Plant to mark the achievement.

Key Points: 
  • MHI completed the world's first TF coil for ITER in January 2020, holding a ceremony at its Futami Plant to mark the achievement.
  • In addition to handling the final assembly process for five of the total 19 TF coils in ITER, MHI manufactured the structure and winding used in the TF coils, achieving a level of precision within 0.01% for these massive superconducting coils, which are 16.5 meters high and 9 meters wide, with a gross weight of 300 tonnes.
  • In addition to the completion of the four TF coils for ITER, MHI is also working on manufacturing other core components, including the divertor(1)1 and equatorial EC launcher(2).
  • Japan is playing a major role in developing and manufacturing the core components of ITER, including the TF coils.