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From SPARC to ARC: CFS prepares for a first-of-a-kind fusion plant
Commonwealth Fusion Systems makes no small plans. The company wants to build a 400-MWe magnetic confinement fusion power plant called ARC near Richmond, Va., and begin operating it in the early 2030s. And the plans don’t end there. CFS wants to deploy “thousands” of fusion power plants capable of accelerating a global energy transition.
J. Rand McNally, Jr.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 155-157
FT Letter | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24530
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The use of Tnτ as a measure of plasma quality appears to be a significant improvement over the Lawson criteria, nτ, as fusion plasmas approach the ignition goal of fusion research. Comments are made to urge a revival of interest in plasma density exponentiation and the “need to know” of the burn characteristics of fusion plasmas.