Stellarex Energy
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Stellarex Energy is a Canadian fusion company that describes itself as a Princeton University spin-off. It is pursuing a simplified stellarator, a fusion device that holds plasma in a twisted magnetic field produced by external coils, and plans a series of demonstration devices before a commercial power plant. It says it is a founding member of Canada's Centre for Fusion Energy and lists Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario Power Generation, AECL and several Canadian universities as partners. It has not published names or dates for its devices.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Stellarator
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
Terms
- Stellarator
- Confinement produced by external coils twisted into complex three-dimensional shapes, so no net current has to be driven through the plasma. That removes the disruptions a tokamak's plasma current can cause and allows continuous operation, at the price of coils that are far harder to design and build.
- 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
- Stellarexoperator
- stellarex.energy/about/operator