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A Star in a Box: Fusion Energy from Lawson to Ignition
Strategy analyst Henrike Ballard must write a board paper on investing in a fusion start-up, and plasma physicist Seun Arkwright has one night to teach her which gain is which. In episode one hundred and forty seven we go from the valley of iron to the Lawson triple product, from the Soviet T-3 tokamak verified by a British laser team in 1969 to JET's final 69 megajoule pulse and ITER's 2024 rebaseline, from Spitzer's stellarator to Wendelstein 7-X's long-pulse record. We see why the B-to-the-fourth scaling made 20 tesla HTS magnets a big deal, how NIF's 192 beams reached ignition in December…
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