Conveners
R-PLEN1 Plenary Session | Session plénière - Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Stephan Reuter (Polytechnique Montreal)
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...
