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Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
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.
