Development of a small tokamak with high temperature superconducting magnets for sale as a fusion research instrument

核聚变发电具有清洁、绿色和丰富的潜力。它本身是安全的，没有核扩散的风险。对未来世界能源供应的预测预计，到2100年，核聚变发电将占全球总发电量的36%。然而，根据目前的研发计划，包括对法国ITERtokamak的150亿欧元投资，在2050年之前，核聚变发电不太可能成为经济现实。托卡马克解决方案公司已经建立了一个小型托卡马克的早期原型，它有可能加快核聚变的研发进程，并提前核聚变能量可用的时间。虽然像Culham的JET和未来的ITER托卡马克这样的大型实验解决了聚变研发中的主要问题，但由托卡马克解决方案公司设计和建造的小型托卡马克可以解决许多适合小型设备快速发展的聚变挑战。换句话说，托卡马克解决方案旨在提供一种研究工具，以一种补充并加速主流核聚变研发的方式，允许核聚变领域的快速增量创新。随着电力需求的增长（全球每年5%）和全球变暖担忧的增加，对核聚变能源的需求将变得更加迫切。全球每年用于核聚变能源研发的支出约为20亿英镑。我们的市场研究证明，每一个认真研究科学的国家都希望拥有自己的托卡马克，用最新的磁铁技术进行核聚变研究。该项目的目标是开发和展示世界上第一个托卡马克，其所有磁体都由高温超导体（HTS）制成。我们将证明这个小型托卡马克易于学生和研究人员使用，并且能够进行开创性的研究。如果我们能从大学和研究机构赢得小型托卡马克的初始订单，那么参与大型核聚变项目的机会就会打开。

Fusion power has the potential to be clean, green and plentiful. It is inherently safe andcarries no risks of nuclear proliferation. Projections of future world energy supply anticipatefusion power being responsible for 36% of all global electricity production by the year 2100.However, with the present R&D proposals, including the €15bn investment in the ITERtokamak in France, it is unlikely that fusion power can become an economic reality before2050.Tokamak Solutions has built an early prototype of a small tokamak that has the potential tospeed up the fusion R&D process and bring forward the time when fusion power will beavailable. While huge experiments such as JET at Culham and the future ITER tokamaktackle major problems in fusion R&D, small tokamaks designed and built by TokamakSolutions can tackle many of the challenges of fusion that are amenable to rapid developmentwith a small device. In other words, Tokamak Solutions aims to provide a research tool toallow rapid incremental innovation in fusion in a way that is complementary to, and willspeed up, mainstream fusion R&D.As demand for electricity increases (at 5% per annum worldwide) and global warmingconcerns increase, the need for fusion energy will become more pressing. Annual globalexpenditure on fusion energy R&D is about £2bn. Our proof of market study has shown thatevery country with a serious scientific effort would want its own tokamak for fusion researchwith the latest magnet technology.The objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate the world’s first tokamak with allits magnets made from high temperature superconductor (HTS). We will demonstrate that thissmall tokamak is easy to use by students and researchers and is capable of ground-breakingresearch. If we can win initial orders for small tokamaks from universities and researchinstitutes, then the opportunities to participate in larger fusion projects will open up.