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Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind—Google’s artificial intelligence development subsidiary—recently announced a new partnership with fusion start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The goal of this collaboration is to leverage AI to both advance plasma simulation and discover novel control strategies, ultimately accelerating CFS’s timeline to deliver commercial fusion to the grid.
D. C. McDonald, Y. Andrew, G. T. A. Huysmans, A. Loarte, J. Ongena, J. Rapp, S. Saarelma
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 4 | May 2008 | Pages 891-957
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Joint European Torus (jet) | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1743
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A wide range of studies on JET have contributed greatly to the development of the ELMy H-mode as a high-performance scenario for fusion devices and to the understanding of the physical processes that underlie it. Development has focused on the production of a high-performance, high-density, stationary scenario suited to deuterium-tritium operation and with small edge energy loads. Physics studies have made strong progress in the understanding of the L-H threshold, energy confinement, pedestal physics, and edge-localized mode behavior. A strong focus of this work has been providing a basis for extrapolation to future machines, such as ITER, for which, as the largest existing tokamak, JET has been of particular importance.