Aka “Simplest Possible ARC tokamak”
SPARC is a Nuclear fusion device being designed jointly by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center. Phase 1 consisted of the Toroidal field model coil. Phase 2 will culminate in the construction and commissioning of the SPARC device.
SPARC will:
- Will inject up to 5% helium, ~1% Xenon and Krypton, and neon and argon, to manage the plasma.
- Torus pressure is much less than 1 Pa most of the time, but up to 1 Pa at the end of the pulse.
- The tritium plant does 10 kPa-m3 hydrogenics per day
References
- Creely, A. J., M. J. Greenwald, S. B. Ballinger, D. Brunner, J. Canik, J. Doody, T. Fülöp, et al. “Overview of the SPARC Tokamak.” Journal of Plasma Physics 86, no. 5 (October 2020): 865860502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001257.