EPRI’s Fusion Quantum Challenge 2025
Fusion energy offers the potential for clean, safe, and abundant power for future energy needs. Overcoming materials and plasma control challenges is key. This Challenge aims to tackle these barriers.
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Hi everyone! 👋
I hope you are enjoying the competition and make good progress on your proposals. I have just come these news on a new record of maintaining a plasma for more than 22 minutes by CEA's WEST and thought this might be interesting for some of you.
Best,
Jannes
From the article:
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
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