NT-Tao
🇮🇱 IL · Founded 2019 · Active
nT-Tao is an Israeli company developing a compact fusion system for on-site power, which it calls the Tao Energy Box and rates at 20 MWe. Its core is a pulsed, high-density magnetic confinement device with a compact stellarator geometry (a stellarator uses twisted external coils to hold the plasma), which the company says is designed for magnetic fields of 8 to 10 tesla and uses rotating electromagnetic fields to suppress instabilities during heating pulses. It targets data centres, industrial sites, shipping and remote infrastructure. The company says it can complete a full engineering cycle on a new system in 9 to 12 months. Its co-founders include a retired Israeli Navy rear admiral and two physicists.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Magnetic confinement
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
Terms
- Magnetic confinement
- Holding a hot plasma away from material walls using magnetic fields, sustained for seconds to steady-state rather than the nanosecond pulses of inertial confinement. The open problem shared by every configuration below is exhausting the plasma's heat and helium ash without eroding the wall that must survive it for years, not seconds.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.