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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Kozo Yamazaki, Kiyomasa Watanabe, Osamu Motojima, Masami Fujiwara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 260-263
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947083
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Modular Heliotron concepts with well-defined and efficient closed helical divertor are studied. The physics optimization of this system has been carried out based on the LHD (Large Helical Device) concept by means of vacuum magnetic surface analyses and finite-beta calculations. The effectiveness of this new modular coil system and its magnetic configuration are clarified. Engineering design of this Modular Heliotron Reactor (MHR) is also carried out based on this physics concept and engineering scalings, and the required machine parameters for DT ignition reactors are clarified.
