Proxima fusionA two -year -old German nuclear nuclear company has published plans for the generation generation station working in a journal reviewed by the peer, in what is described as a step change in the race to generate boundless energy.
Today, nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, while nuclear fusion release huge amounts of energy, with script carbon emissions and minimal radiation.
The so -called Tokamaks and Stellarrs are types of fusion reactors that use electromagnetic magnets to contain fusion plasma. Tokamaks depends on external magnets and their preparation Current plasma But it is known for instability. On the contrary, stars use only external magnets, which, in theory, allows better stability and continuous operation.
However, according to Dr. Francesco, co -founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, the design of the Proxima ‘Stellaris’ is the first concept of the power plant that was reviewed by the peer and which shows that it can work reliably and continuously, without stability and malfunctions that were seen in Tokamakss and other methods.
Proxima was published in “Fusion Engineering and Design”, chosen to share its results openly to support open source science.
“Our American friends can see it. Our Chinese friends can see it. Our claim is that we can implement this faster than anyone else, and we do this by creating a framework for integrated physics, engineering and economics. So we are no longer a scientific project anymore.
“We have started as a group of founders who say it will take two years to reach Stellaris’s design … We have already finished after one year. So we rushed for a year.”
Proxima was established two years ago, raising $ 35 million in funding from the European Union and the German government, along with $ 30 million in investment capital. The company aims to build a fully operating reactor by 2031.
Among its competitors is Commonwealth Fusion Systems, supported by Bill Gates’s Venture Fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
“When Proxima began her journey, the founders said:” this is possible, we will prove this to you. “They did. Stellaris put Qi-HTS Stelrarators as the leading technology in the race. Global to fusion.
