The essentials
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Magnetic confinement
Tokamaks and stellarators hold plasma in magnetic bottles. Decades of physics, now gated on high-temperature superconducting magnets.
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Inertial confinement
Compress a fuel pellet with lasers until it ignites. NIF crossed scientific breakeven in 2022 — a milestone, not yet a power plant.
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The balance of plant
Everything outside the machine: coolant, tritium, cryoplant, vacuum, power conversion. That is where Porritt Inc. works.
4M×
Energy vs coal
100M°C
Plasma temp
2022
NIF breakeven
BoP
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