2025 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2025

Session

R-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session plénière - Dennis Whyte, MIT

R-PLEN1

12 Jun 2025, 09:00

Health Sciences 1150 (Health Sciences 1150)

Conveners

R-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session plénière - Dennis Whyte, MIT

• Stephan Reuter (Polytechnique Montreal)

401. Accelerating commercial fusion energy with high magnetic fields and technology innovation

Dennis Whyte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12/06/2025, 09:00

Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

The advent of REBCO high-temperature superconductors at commercial scale has changed the development path for producing fusion energy with magnetic confinement.

The design and test of a large-bore B>20 tesla peak field superconducting magnet at MIT PSFC, in collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, realizes a doubling of the allowed B field compared to previous state of the art. This...