This is a joint session between two workshops which run in parallel
a) Symposium „30 Years of Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe“ at Karlsruhe, Germany
b) Fusion Fuel Cycles and Blankets Workshop 2023 at Charlotte, USA
There is growing excitement about fusion energy as an option to contribute to the world’s low-carbon energy supply. Increasing numbers of private companies are aiming to deliver commercial fusion and are producing significant breakthroughs in the science and technology that will lead to a commercial power plant.
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is the unified voice of the fusion...
Decades of worldwide, government-sponsored research in fusion science have established the tokamak-based configuration as the leading approach to confining fusion-grade plasmas with strong magnetic fields. Yet, in the past, even state-of-the art superconducting magnet technology required tokamaks to be enormous to produce net fusion energy. Recently, a new high temperature superconductor has...
Public funded fusion experiments have stalled in recent years for several reasons. ITER is around 10 years away and Demo around 30 years. This timeline brings commercial fusion power plants to the grid by the end of this century.
Private fusion companies closing this gap and their mission is to provide commercial clean, sustainable and low carbon energy to the grid much earlier.
Tokamak...
The European startup Renaissance Fusion synergistically combines three main pillars: the stellarator, High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) and liquid metal walls. For simpler coil manufacturing, Renaissance is building machines to directly deposit HTS on large 2D surfaces. Engraving imposes specific current-patterns that generate specific 3D magnetic fields. Plasma-facing, liquid metal walls...
The Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP) operates the European Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK), a semi-technical scale facility for processing tritium, the radioactive hydrogen isotope. Its license to handle up to 40 grams of tritium, its present site inventory of about 30 grams of tritium, and its extensive infrastructure and experimental apparatus, make it a favorable location to...
