The high field stellarator path to commercial fusion energy

The stellarator offers the surest approach to reliable fusion energy production, offering many advantages as a power plant. The inherently steady-state, disruption-free operation leads to a lean reactor concept with fewer subsystems, low recirculating power, and longer component lifetimes. Type One Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in magnet technology, advanced manufacturing, and simulation and design approaches to radically accelerate development and demonstrate the commercial viability of the stellarator approach to fusion. Our strategy takes advantage of multiple demonstrated successes in the optimization, construction, and operation of stellarators which have established the physics basis of this development path. The path to realizing a stellarator pilot plant, including near-term demonstration projects, will be presented.