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2/5 That sprint took place during the last day of service for Alcator C-Mod, a type of fusion machine called a tokamak. C-Mod is the progenitor of the SPARC demonstration machine we’re building today and the ARC power plant we’ve begun designing. And we’re putting the C-Mod lessons to good use.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems
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3/5 C-Mod showed that a compact tokamak employing very high magnetic fields is well suited not only for high fusion performance but also for economical power generation.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems
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4/5 During that last day, researchers showed three separate paths to high performance in a competition to push the machine as far as it could go. It set a record that stands to this day, unmatched by any other tokamak.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems
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5/5 Unmatched until we start running SPARC, that is. The knowledge gained from C-Mod helps propel us to achieving net fusion energy, aka Q>1, with SPARC. For more on how MIT’s C-Mod paved the way for CFS, check out our blog post.

blog.cfs.energyHow the Alcator C-Mod tokamak blazed the CFS trail to fusion power | The Tokamak TimesTen years ago today, a group of physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pushed a fusion machine called a tokamak farther than any had ever been pushed. In that moment, they also helped...

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