Devens to see development of new fusion facility
A fusion power company will be building a manufacturing and research campus in Devens.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff from MIT, will feature SPARC at the 47-acre site. This is an experimental fusion device that leaders of the company expect will demonstrate nuclear fusion as a viable power source. There will also be an advanced manufacturing facility spanning 160,000 square feet and the corporate offices of the company at the site. Stationery printers are often needed when such new facilities and offices are built for the creation of letterheads and other corporate materials.
Bob Mumgaard, CEO of CFS, said that there promises to produce less radioactive waste than is the case with traditional nuclear power. He added that the device the company will be producing will be able to make more power than needed to run it. It uses a huge bagel-shaped mechanism surrounded by powerful magnets. Super-hot plasma is compressed within the magnetic field, which causes hydrogen atoms to fuse and release energy. Mumgaard commented that this new technology will be able to create sustainable fusion that creates energy and could begin the development of fusion power plants.
The construction of the campus is expected to cost close to $300m for the first phase and is expected to take place this spring, with a demonstration of the full-scale magnet in June of this year.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff from MIT, will feature SPARC at the 47-acre site. This is an experimental fusion device that leaders of the company expect will demonstrate nuclear fusion as a viable power source. There will also be an advanced manufacturing facility spanning 160,000 square feet and the corporate offices of the company at the site. Stationery printers are often needed when such new facilities and offices are built for the creation of letterheads and other corporate materials.
Bob Mumgaard, CEO of CFS, said that there promises to produce less radioactive waste than is the case with traditional nuclear power. He added that the device the company will be producing will be able to make more power than needed to run it. It uses a huge bagel-shaped mechanism surrounded by powerful magnets. Super-hot plasma is compressed within the magnetic field, which causes hydrogen atoms to fuse and release energy. Mumgaard commented that this new technology will be able to create sustainable fusion that creates energy and could begin the development of fusion power plants.
The construction of the campus is expected to cost close to $300m for the first phase and is expected to take place this spring, with a demonstration of the full-scale magnet in June of this year.