Overview of SPARC Progress: Construction, Manufacturing, and Operational Planning

POSTER

Abstract

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and its partners are building SPARC, a high field (BT = 12.2 T), compact (R0 = 1.85 m, a = 0.57 m) tokamak designed to achieve Q~11 and Pfusion~140 MW at H98 = 1.0. SPARC is under construction in Devens, Massachusetts and has progressed significantly in the past year. Tokamak and plant buildings are nearing completion and installation of the SPARC cryostat base is anticipated by the end of 2023. SPARC magnets are in manufacturing at the CFS magnet factory and will be tested at temperature before assembly into SPARC. Major procured items, such as the vacuum vessel and cryoplant, are well into production at vendors and will be arriving throughout 2024. Early SPARC operation will focus on commissioning the machine and then achieving Q > 1 in DT L-mode plasmas, which have recently been thoroughly analyzed. SPARC will then transition to studying H-mode in deuterium, before pushing to full power DT operation. Throughout, a primary focus of SPARC's research program will be to inform ARC design and operation.

*Research supported by Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Presenters

  • Alexander J Creely

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Authors

  • Alexander J Creely

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • John L Ball

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Devon J Battaglia

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Alexander F Battey

    • Columbia University

  • Thomas A Body

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • John C Boguski

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Anson Braun

    • Columbia University

  • Michael W Brookman

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Dan Brunner

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Daniel A Burgess

    • Columbia University

  • Leonardo Corsaro

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Davide Curreli

    • University of Illinois
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Thomas Eich

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Jacqueline M Farnsworth

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Darren T Garnier

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Robert S Granetz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joshua N Hawke

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Jon C Hillesheim

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Nathan T Howard

    • MIT

  • Jerry W Hughes

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • MIT PSFC

  • Thomas G Jenkins

    • Tech-X Corporation

  • Adam Q Kuang

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Yijun Lin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • MIT

  • Nikolas C Logan

    • Columbia University
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Tom Looby

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems
    • CFS

  • Shon P Mackie

    • MIT, Department of Physics

  • Robert T Mumgaard

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Clayton E Myers

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Enrico Panontin

    • MIT
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Prasoon Raj

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Cristina Rea

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Matthew L Reinke

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems
    • CFS

  • John E Rice

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Alex R Saperstein

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • steven D scott

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Khrystyna Shvedova

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Inwoo Song

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Joshua D Souza

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Ian G Stewart

    • Columbia University

  • Ryan M Sweeney

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems
    • CFS
    • MIT PSFC
    • Commonwealth Fusion System

  • Anna A Teplukhina

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Alex A Tinguely

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Gregorio Luigi Trevisan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Didier Vezinet

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Gregory M Wallace

    • MIT PSFC

  • Xinyan Wang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Michael Wigram

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Dennis Whyte

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • MIT

  • Yiru Xiao

    • MIT