Private fusion ventures have demonstrated high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet systems capable of sustaining 20 Tesla magnetic fields. The benchmark removes a critical engineering bottleneck for compact tokamak designs.
Path to Net Energy Gain
The field performance enables reactor footprints to be reduced by a factor of four compared to traditional copper-coil configurations. Operational testing of prototype power-generating loops is slated to commence within 30 months.