The SPARC tokamak: Predicting performance in the world’s first burning plasma

Nathan Howard

MIT

Friday, January 28, 2022

2:00pm

Virtual

IAP Seminars

The SPARC tokamak is scheduled to begin operation in 2025 and will later become the first tokamak to achieve burning plasma conditions.  Its success will pave the way to the realization of fusion as an energy source.   In this talk we will cover the need for fusion energy development and the high field path to fusion.  In particular, we will present a historical overview of the models used to predict tokamak performance and will highlight some of the cutting-edge work going on at MIT that has been used to predict SPARC and increase our confidence in SPARC’s success.

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