Towards compact and efficient nuclear reactors

迫切需要开发清洁和绿色的能源生产方法。核聚变是解决方案的重要组成部分，至少在原则上提供接近无限的高品位能源，接近零碳足迹。核聚变正处于一个十字路口，物理学已经很好地理解了，但工程上仍然需要大量的努力来实现实际的核聚变。高温超导体（HTS）最近成为实现这一目标的有力竞争者。该项目的目的是克服交流损耗的主要困难，这是高温超导的一个长期问题。高温超导只在直流电条件下无损，这将不会是一个聚变磁体的情况下，它将上升和下降。在一个电抗器中，有一些线圈需要快速斜坡，这将引起交流损耗。交流损耗是超导体长期存在的问题，需要解决。一旦这一问题得到解决，大量的应用将变得切实可行，不仅是核聚变，还有电力飞行，甚至更强大的风力发电机等等。我们打算解决这个问题。

There is an ever pressing need to develop clean and green methods for energy generation. Fusion is an important part of the solution, in principal at least providing close to unlimited high grade energy with a close to zero carbon footprint. Fusion is at a cross-roads, the physics is well understood but the engineering still needs a great deal of effort to bring about practical fusion. High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have recently emerged as a serious contender for achieving this goal. The purpose of this project is to overcome the major difficulty of AC losses which are a perennial problem with HTS. HTS are only lossless under DC conditions, this will not be the case with a fusion magnet which will be ramped up and down. In a reactor there are coils which need to be ramped rapidly this will induce AC losses. AC losses are a perennial problem for superconductors which needs to be solved. Once it is solved a huge range of applications will become practical, not only fusion but, for example electric flight, even more powerful wind generators and many more. We aim to solve this problem.