Tokamak Energy
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Fusion Power |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Oxford, United Kingdom |
Key people |
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Number of employees | 150 |
| Website | www |
Tokamak Energy is a fusion power research company based in the United Kingdom,[1] established in 2009.[2] The company employs 150 people and holds over 50 families of patent applications. It has built several versions of tokamaks, in the form of spherical tokamaks, with the final aim of reaching commercial fusion power generation.[3][4] One of the first was the copper-based ST-25; in 2015 this was upgraded with rare earth–barium–copper oxide (REBCO) high temperature superconductors (HTS) to the ST-25HTS.[3] The most recent tokamak developed, the ST-40, reached 15 million degrees Celsius in 2018.[4][5][6] Tokamak Energy is a spin-off of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy based in Oxfordshire.[7] As of April 2021, the company has raised over £117m from private investors including L&G Capital, Dr. Hans-Peter Wild, and David Harding, CEO of Winton Capital.[2] The company aims for energy breakeven in 2025 with the ST-40's successor, the planned ST-F1, and for a commercial grid-connected reactor for 2030 with the ST-E1. Tokamak Energy plans to built compact modular fusion reactors of around 150 MW.[3]
See also[]
- China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- DEMOnstration Power Station
- Fusion Industry Association
- Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production
References[]
- ^ Energy, Tokamak. "Contact » Tokamak Energy". Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Tokamak Energy on track to be the first private company to achieve 100 million degree plasma temperature, paving the way to commercial fusion energy". www.itnewsonline.com. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ a b c Windridge, Melanie (2020), "Tokamak Energy", Commercialising Fusion Energy, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/978-0-7503-2719-0ch5, retrieved 2021-12-13
- ^ a b "Tokamak Energy hits 15 million degree fusion milestone". The Engineer. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Fusion power is attracting private-sector interest". The Economist. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ Gryaznevich, M.; Nicolai, A.; Chuyanov, V.; Team, Tokamak Energy Ltd. (2021). "ST40 PROGRESS TOWARDS OPTIMIZED NEUTRON PRODUCTION". Problems of Atomic Science and Technology, Ser. Thermonuclear Fusion. 44 (2): 107–110. doi:10.21517/0202-3822-2021-44-2-107-110. ISSN 0202-3822.
- ^ "ST40 achieves 15-million-degree target - World Nuclear News". world-nuclear-news.org. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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