Bill Gates-Supported Union Fusion Systems The main reactor strikes construction phase

Union fusion systems, celebrating a cheerful stage, declared the installation of the main component of the SPARC demonstration reactor.

A new part of the 75-ton steel steel, which organizes the foundation of Tokamak, said that this CFS will be the first to create the heart of a fusion reactor, more than consumption. Cryostat called the base, was held in Italy and was sent to Massachusetts, which is ready in half of the world, was sent in the world half on the Devens site.

“This is the first part of a true fusion car,” Alex Geographical, Tokamak Director CfsHe told Techcrunch. Work on the site has been going on for more than three years to build buildings and machines that will support the reactor core for more than three years.

“This is a great thing for us, because this means that we are going to a new stage of the project we do not establish an industrial object – we are still doing this – we are doing a little bit – we are now doing the true Tokamak.”

CFS is one of the many beginners that emerge to follow in recent years Fusion powerThis promise that promises to deliver free electricity of pollution from a hydrogen fuel arising from seawater. Investors, as heavy users such as electric vehicles and data centers, they are compared to the technology to meet future power needs.

The company that is Bill Gates’s progress is supported by energy facilities Among other investors is one of the best prospects to prove whether the Fusion Power is commercially possible. The company announced in December The first commercial scale reactor Richmond will be located outside Virginia.

In 2027, Sparc is expected to come online, and if CFS works as expected, it can be the first tokamak to produce more power than necessary to escape. So far, only Energy’s National Factory Facilities Department has been able to strike such a scientific break in a string of successful practices in the first place Occurred in December 2022.

However, the NIF reactor differs significantly from the CFS, using lasers to squeeze a fuel granulation. CFS uses Tokamaka, 100 million degree C plasma lubricated frictions to a donut shape, and pressing the magnets that squeeze it tightly until it is restricted.

Tokamax uses super conductive magnets to create strong magnetic fields required for plasma corals. Those magnets The use of liquid helium – should be cooled with -253 degrees C. Cryostat helps protect these frigid conditions that behave like thermos by insulating the temperature of the environment. “The Cryostat base is mainly like the bottom of the thermos,” he said.

Like someone who receives an Amazon package, CFS should check and check the crostat base before riddling. But unlike an e-commerce package that is opened for a few seconds, the transportation material and another week “took a few days to make sure nothing in the shipping,” he said.

Later, the CFS team transferred the crio station base to Tokamak Hall, where the bottomless bolts left the concrete foundation waiting for a stainless steel disk. “Then you are in it,” he said.

Along with the criostat base, work continues in the other three large parts of the other three major Tokamak, which will be collected at the same time in the last time of this year or early next year. After that, CFS will provide a process known as planned as planned, and the commissioning of months will be commissioned.

“This is the first of a kind,” he said. “Not just like button and burned.”