New physics papers lay firm foundation for CFS’ ARC fusion power plant design | The Tokamak Times

With the publication today of five deeply researched and peer-reviewed papers, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and dozens of collaborating physicists have cemented our confidence in the core plasma physics assumptions at work within our upcoming ARC fusion power plant.

The scientifically rigorous papers, with 58 co-authors, span 226 pages in a special edition of the the Journal of Plasma Physics. They detail how an ARC plant will produce roughly 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of fusion power that we’ll convert into 400 megawatts (MW) of net electricity delivered continuously to the grid — enough to power about 280,000 average American homes.

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1. Overview of the physics basis for the ARC fusion power plant
2. Power and particle exhaust for the ARC fusion power plant
3. ARC disruption physics and strategy
4. Performance and transport in the ARC tokamak
5. ARC physics basis — magnetohydrodynamics