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Overview of SPARC Progress: Construction, Manufacturing, and Operational Planning

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Abstract

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and its partners are building SPARC, a high field (BT = 12.2 T), compact (R0 = 1.85 m, a = 0.57 m) tokamak designed to achieve Q~11 and Pfusion~140 MW at H98 = 1.0. SPARC is under construction in Devens, Massachusetts and has progressed significantly in the past year. Tokamak and plant buildings are nearing completion and installation of the SPARC cryostat base is anticipated by the end of 2023. SPARC magnets are in manufacturing at the CFS magnet factory and will be tested at temperature before assembly into SPARC. Major procured items, such as the vacuum vessel and cryoplant, are well into production at vendors and will be arriving throughout 2024. Early SPARC operation will focus on commissioning the machine and then achieving Q > 1 in DT L-mode plasmas, which have recently been thoroughly analyzed. SPARC will then transition to studying H-mode in deuterium, before pushing to full power DT operation. Throughout, a primary focus of SPARC's research program will be to inform ARC design and operation.

Presenters

  • Alexander J Creely

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Authors

  • Alexander J Creely

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • John L Ball

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Devon J Battaglia

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Alexander F Battey

    Columbia University

  • Thomas A Body

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • John C Boguski

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Anson Braun

    Columbia University

  • Michael W Brookman

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Dan Brunner

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Daniel A Burgess

    Columbia University

  • Leonardo Corsaro

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Davide Curreli

    University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Thomas Eich

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Jacqueline M Farnsworth

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Darren T Garnier

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Robert S Granetz

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joshua N Hawke

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Jon C Hillesheim

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Nathan T Howard

    MIT

  • Jerry W Hughes

    MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT PSFC

  • Thomas G Jenkins

    Tech-X Corporation

  • Adam Q Kuang

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Yijun Lin

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI, MIT

  • Nikolas C Logan

    Columbia University, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Tom Looby

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems, CFS

  • Shon P Mackie

    MIT, Department of Physics

  • Robert T Mumgaard

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Clayton E Myers

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Enrico Panontin

    MIT, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Prasoon Raj

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Cristina Rea

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Matthew L Reinke

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems, CFS

  • John E Rice

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez

    MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Alex R Saperstein

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • steven D scott

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Khrystyna Shvedova

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Inwoo Song

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Joshua D Souza

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Ian G Stewart

    Columbia University

  • Ryan M Sweeney

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems, CFS, MIT PSFC, Commonwealth Fusion System

  • Anna A Teplukhina

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Alex A Tinguely

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Gregorio Luigi Trevisan

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Didier Vezinet

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Gregory M Wallace

    MIT PSFC

  • Xinyan Wang

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Michael Wigram

    MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Dennis Whyte

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, MIT

  • Yiru Xiao

    MIT