Tokamak Energy Inc lands in America with 5 INFUSE projects underway at U.S. national labs

Tokamak Energy Inc, launched a year ago as a subsidiary of Tokamak Energy Ltd, participates in DoE's INFUSE program. These projects and our plans will be described. TE designs and builds high-performance prototypes and rapidly innovates while building a team to design and develop fusion pilot plants and power modules (500 MWh, 150 MWe), with the aim of 100 MKelvin in 2021). Our technology, destined to show that the energy confinement time in ST is sufficient to enable a compact device to produce continuous power output at high gain, is based on compact spherical tokamaks (ST) with high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. ST40 has attracted U.S. and Japanese collaborators and is aiming for 100 million K plasma (ion) temperature in 2021. TE is developing HTS magnets via prototypes operating at increasingly higher B fields. Our record field is over 24 T on the conductor in a test magnet operating at 21K. This field strength is already sufficient for a fusion power plant, and these magnets will be scaled up further over the next few years. TE has built up a patent portfolio of greater than 50 patent application families, many related to HTS magnets. TE welcomes technical competition from other private fusion ventures, while appreciating the collective and cooperative push toward a commercial fusion culture, and values the opportunity to collaborate with national laboratories through programs such as INFUSE.