Building Better Fusion Machines with Superconductors (IMAGE)

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Building Better Fusion Machines with Superconductors

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Conceptual design of the ARC fusion reactor. About the same size as the currently operating JET tokamak in the United Kingdom, but with three times the magnetic field strength, ARC is sized to produce 500 MW of deuterium-tritium fueled fusion power.

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Earl Marmar

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