Fusion energy and MIT's pathway for accelerated demonstration with high-magnetic field tokamaks

Zach Hartwig

MIT PSFC

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

2:00pm

1-190

IAP Seminars

This talk will introduce the key concepts of producing clean, safe, and carbon-free electricity from magnetic fusion energy. It will review the present state of fusion energy research and then introduce MIT's proposed pathway to use high-field superconducting magnets to achieve fusion energy at smaller unit size, at lower cost, and on a timescale relevant to climate change.