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Helical Fusion marks milestone in progress toward fusion power
Helical Fusion, a Japan-based fusion start-up that is developing a stellarator fusion power reactor, has announced it has successfully demonstrated its high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coil under relevant magnetic conditions.
A video highlighting the stellarator’s technology testing can be found here.
Yasushi Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1707-1714
Magnetic Fusion Reactor and Systems Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29968
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Fusion power reactor studies conducted in Japan are reviewed and their potential merits and R&D issues are listed. Beginning with a tokamak power reactor study carried out in 1973, there have been a considerable number of studies for both magnetic and inertial confinement fusion schemes. It is of interest to note that there are at least one power reactor concept for each major confinement scheme studied in Japan. Most of them are for the D-T fuel cycle but in recent years D-3He fuel reactors have come to be studied.