An Overview of the Magnetic Fusion Landscape and Key Technical Hurdles to Overcome
Learn more at www.tritium2025.com . This international conference will address all aspects of tritium. Tritium’s importance as a fuel for most fusion plants, the connection between tritium and fusion will receive strong attention. As part of the conference, the Fusion Energy Council of Canada is also organizing introductory sessions on tritium fundamentals and tritium in fusion energy production.
Type One Energy’s high-field stellarator path to fusion energy
Dr. Antoine Cerfon, Senior Scientist, Type One Energy, Vancouver, BC
Abstract: In this presentation, we will present a promising confinement concept for magnetic confinement fusion, called the stellarator, a close cousin to the tokamak. We will explain the elementary physics principles leading to this concept, and its strengths and weaknesses as compared to other confinement concepts. We will highlight recent achievements in stellarator experiments in North America and Europe, and how the high-field high-temperature superconducting magnet revolution will lead to further improvements in the performance of stellarator reactors.
We will then present Type One Energy, Inc., our stellarator fusion company based in Madison, Wisconsin, with a Vancouver, BC, Canada office, and finally discuss our efforts to train and attract talents to work with us here in Canada.
Presenter: Antoine Cerfon is a senior research scientist at Type One Energy, Inc., a private stellarator fusion company. Prior to joining the private sector, he was a tenured associate professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, developing numerical methods to simulate the dynamics of fusion plasmas and optimization algorithms for the design of new fusion reactors.
Antoine obtained his Master of Science in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and his PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
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