Darby Dunn
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
PRESENTING ON
Monday, September 2, 2024 | 8:15 a.m.
PRESENTATION TITLE
Production of HTS Magnets from Lab Scale to Commercial Fusion Power Plants
ABSTRACT
The world needs a fundamentally new source of clean energy to meet our growing energy demands and combat climate change. In this talk, we will focus on fusion energy and its potential as a commercial power source. After a brief introduction to highlight the advantages of fusion, we will dive into the technology developed at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). CFS is building revolutionary high temperature superconducting magnets developed in collaboration with MIT to build compact, net-positive energy devices called tokamaks. This talk will cover the groundbreaking manufacturing and test of CFS’ toroidal field model coil (the strongest fusion magnet in the world) along with progress on SPARC, the world’s first commercially-relevant net energy fusion machine. The talk will focus on lessons learned and the scalability of the manufacturing processes, supply chain, and construction for commercial fusion power plants around the world.