A major milestone has been marked by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in Devens with the installation of a significant part of its SPARC demonstration reactor.
This component is the foundation of the tokamak, which is the heart a fusion reactor that CFS is hoping that will be able to generate more power than it consumes and be the first of its kind. The cryostat base was made in Italy and is made of stainless steel at a width of 24 feet and weight of 75 tons.
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The director of tokamak operations at CFS, Alex Creely, said this is the first piece of the fusion machine and is important as it means the company is moving into a new phase of the project where the facility is not being built but the equipment itself.
CFS is a start-up that has been working on fusion power in the past few years. Fusion power promises to deliver gigawatts of electricity free of pollution. This technology is being counted on by investors to meet future power needs of the country and the world given the emergence of heavy-duty data centers for artificial intelligence and electric vehicles.
It is expected that SPARC will come online in 2027.
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