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From SPARC to ARC: CFS prepares for a first-of-a-kind fusion plant
Commonwealth Fusion Systems makes no small plans. The company wants to build a 400-MWe magnetic confinement fusion power plant called ARC near Richmond, Va., and begin operating it in the early 2030s. And the plans don’t end there. CFS wants to deploy “thousands” of fusion power plants capable of accelerating a global energy transition.
A. Yoshikawa, Y. Oya, H. Miyauchi, T. Nakahata, Y. Nishikawa, T. Suda, E. Igarashi, M. Oyaidzu, M. Tokitani, H. Iwakiri, N. Yoshida, K. Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 870-874
Technical Paper | First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1602
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He+ implantation effects on the Retention behavior of hydrogen isotopes implanted into 35% oxygen-contained boron film was studied by means of SEM, AFM, XPS and TDS. It was found that the D retention for only D2+ implanted film was the highest and it decreased for pre-He+ implanted film and post-He+ implanted film. From the SEM and AFM images, the surface morphology of the oxygen-contained boron film was partly cracked, indicating that B2O3 was formed in the film. From the TDS and XPS results, the defective structure and the formation of B-D-B bond, B-D bond and B-O-D bond were observed by He+ and D2+ implantation, respectively. It was suggested that oxygen was trapped as B-O bond. The reaction with implanted D2+ was preceded in different mechanism.