Energy Singularity
🇨🇳 Shanghai, CN · Founded 2021 · Active
Energy Singularity is a Shanghai fusion company developing compact tokamaks built entirely with high-temperature superconducting magnets. Its first machine, HH70, which it describes as the world's first all-high-temperature-superconducting tokamak, has a major radius of 70 cm and a 1 tesla central field and made its first plasma in June 2024; the company says it has since run plasmas lasting 1,337 seconds. It says its Jingtian large-bore D-shaped magnet reached 22 tesla. Its planned next machine, HH170, would have a 10 tesla field and a major radius of 150 cm, with a stated goal of an equivalent gain above 2.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Tokamak
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
It is the operator of record for HH70 (operating).
Terms
- Tokamak
- Doughnut-shaped magnetic confinement using a strong toroidal field plus a current driven through the plasma itself. The most-studied configuration, and the one ITER uses. Its main open problem is heat exhaust at the divertor, where the plasma edge concentrates power onto a small area, together with the risk of disruptions: sudden, uncontrolled losses of the plasma current.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.
Devices
Related companies
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- Maritime Fusion
- Firefly Fusion
- General Atomics
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- ITER Organization
- Korea Institute of Fusion Energy
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Pranos Fusion
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
Sources
- 能量奇点 Energy Singularity | 探索终极能源operator
- Energy Singularity: Core Devicesoperator