Pranos Fusion
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, IN · Founded 2024 · Active
Pranos Fusion is an Indian start-up in Bengaluru developing tokamak technology, with a focus on low-aspect-ratio (compact, more spherical) tokamaks. It works on three linked products: PRAGYA, which it describes as its first low-aspect-ratio, medium-scale tokamak, a testbed for plasma control; JENGA, software for tokamak design and control; and MAGGA, high-temperature superconducting magnets. It lists the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) and the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) as incubation partners, and ITER, the Indian Institute of Science, IIT Kharagpur and BITS Pilani among its ecosystem partners.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Tokamak
- Role
- Fusion developer
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.
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Sources
- Pranos Fusionoperator
- Pranos Fusion | Fusion Energy Baseaggregator