Overview of the SPARC tokamak

AJ Creely, MJ Greenwald, SB Ballinger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The SPARC tokamak is a critical next step towards commercial fusion energy. SPARC is
designed as a high-field () relevant to fusion power plants. SPARC's place in the path to …

[HTML][HTML] Review of commercial nuclear fusion projects

S Meschini, F Laviano, F Ledda, D Pettinari… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nuclear fusion technologies have re-gained momentum in the last decade thanks to their
disruptive potential in different fields, such as energy production and space propulsion, and …

Multifilamentary coated conductors for ultra-high magnetic field applications

AC Wulff, AB Abrahamsen… - … Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
High-temperature superconducting coated conductors (CCs) are considered an enabling
ultra-high field (UHF) tape-conductor technology due to their extremely high engineering …

Superconductors for fusion: a roadmap

N Mitchell, J Zheng, C Vorpahl, V Corato… - Superconductor …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With the first tokamak designed for full nuclear operation now well into final assembly (ITER),
and a major new research tokamak starting commissioning (JT60SA), nuclear fusion is …

The SPARC toroidal field model coil program

ZS Hartwig, RF Vieira, D Dunn… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) Program was a three-year effort between
2018 and 2021 that developed novel rare earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Significantly enhanced critical current density and pinning force in nanostructured,(RE) BCO-based, coated conductor

A Goyal, R Kumar, H Yuan, N Hamada… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-temperature superconducting wires have many large-scale, niche applications such as
commercial nuclear fusion as well as numerous other large-scale applications in the electric …

Overview of the SPARC physics basis towards the exploration of burning-plasma regimes in high-field, compact tokamaks

P Rodriguez-Fernandez, AJ Creely… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The SPARC tokamak project, currently in engineering design, aims to achieve breakeven
and burning plasma conditions in a compact device, thanks to new developments in high …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low electrical loss superconducting cables for railway transportation: Technical, economic, and environmental analysis

Y Chen, L Fu, X Chen, S Jiang, X Chen, J Xu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon emission from various transportations is one of the major factors towards global
warming. With the increasing energy demand from railway transportation, the conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the possible contribution of different nuclear fusion technologies to the global energy transition

D Lerede, M Nicoli, L Savoldi, A Trotta - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the huge uncertainties related to the possibility of a quick development of nuclear
fusion technologies-being disputed that it may come too late to effectively contribute to …

Nonlinear gyrokinetic predictions of SPARC burning plasma profiles enabled by surrogate modeling

P Rodriguez-Fernandez, NT Howard, J Candy - Nuclear Fusion, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-channel, nonlinear predictions of core temperature and density profiles are performed
for the SPARC tokamak (Creely et al 2020 J. Plasma Phys. 86 865860502) accounting for …