University of Wisconsin-Madison

🇺🇸 Madison, US · Active

Also known as UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 1848. The IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices lists it as the operator of three fusion research devices: HSX, a stellarator; MST (Madison Symmetric Torus), a reversed-field pinch; and Pegasus-III, a spherical tokamak. The stellarator company Type One Energy was founded in 2019 by researchers who had built and run HSX.

Sector: Fusion
Role: University, Operator

It is the operator of record for 4 facilities, all of them operating.

Design values

Design values for devices operated by University of Wisconsin-Madison. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
Device	Parameter	Value	Unit	Status
HSX	Major radius	1.2	m	design valueclaimed
HSX	Minor radius	0.15	m	design valueclaimed
HSX	On-axis magnetic field	1.25	T	design valueclaimed
PEGASUS-III	Major radius	0.45	m	design valueclaimed
PEGASUS-III	Minor radius	0.37	m	design valueclaimed
PEGASUS-III	On-axis magnetic field	0.58	T	design valueclaimed
PEGASUS-III	Plasma current	1	MA	design valueclaimed
University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor	Thermal capacity (rated)	1	MW	design valueclaimed

Devices

University of Wisconsin Nuclear ReactorWater-cooledOperating1 figure on record PEGASUS-IIISpherical tokamakOperating4 figures on record HSXStellaratorOperating3 figures on record MSTReversed-field pinchOperatingNo figures yet

Related companies

Sources

World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022independent
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