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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.
V.S. Shkolnik, Yu.S. Cherepnin, L.N. Tikhomirov, D.I. Zelenskiy, I.L. Tazhibaeva, V.P. Shestakov, E.P. Velikhov, E.A. Azizov, O.I. Buzhinskiy, A.A. Gostev, G.P. Gardymov, A.B. Mineev, K.G. Shakhovets
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1179-1181
Alternative and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963773
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At present spherical tokamaks are assumed to be prospective candidates for construction of thermonuclear reactors. These machines combine the advantages of spheromaks (compactness) and of tokamaks (improved plasma confinement). Such a combination allows achievement of higher plasma parameters in the presence of relative compactness and low cost of the main machine. Spherical tokamaks are also used for testing power stressed elements of the first wall and divertor under loads approaching those in experimental thermonuclear power reactors.
