Tokamak Energy has a world-leading magnet system and this world-first system, based in Oxford, has been producing impressive results.
Warrick Matthews, Tokamak Energy CEO, said: “These results are a major victory for the race to deliver fusion and HTS as a disruptive new commercial technology. Demo4 represents over a decade of HTS innovation at Tokamak Energy. Born from our fusion mission, it validates one of the technical solutions for getting clean, limitless, safe and secure fusion energy on the grid.
“Demo4 is also best in class at showcasing and demonstrating the transformative potential for superconductors, including power distribution for high-demand environments like data centres and applications across science, power systems, propulsion, and beyond.”
Demo4 has allowed Tokamak Energy to obtain valuable engineering insights that will enable fusion power plant designs of the future to prosper.
The aim for Tokamak Energy at this time is to deepen their understanding of how this technology is working and what it needs to do moving forward to ensure fusion energy can become a commercial reality.
For those people who have been in the nuclear sector for decades, and newer entrants, they will be acutely aware that fusion energy has always been 30-years away; however, with this deep technological exploration and testing, perhaps someone will commercialise this energy source before the 2050’s.
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