Startorus Fusion
🇨🇳 Xi'an, CN · Founded 2021 · Active
Startorus Fusion (星环聚能) is a Chinese fusion company with offices in Xi'an and in Jiading, Shanghai; the company name on its website is 上海星环聚能科技有限公司 (Shanghai Xinghuan Juneng Technology). It is developing a compact spherical tokamak with high-temperature superconducting magnets, heated by repeated magnetic reconnection, a process in which magnetic field lines break and rejoin and release energy into the plasma. Its core team comes from the Tsinghua University group that ran SUNIST, which the company describes as China's first spherical tokamak, for more than twenty years.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Spherical tokamak
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
Terms
- Spherical tokamak
- A tokamak squeezed towards a cored-apple shape. The tighter aspect ratio holds plasma pressure with less magnetic field, which is efficient, but leaves very little room at the centre for the central column.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.
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Sources
- 星环聚能operator