Proxima Fusion to build groundbreaking fusion power plant. Built with stellarator-based technology.

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Foto: Max Planck Institute

Proxima Fusion to build groundbreaking fusion power plant

Built with stellarator-based technology

The German startup company Proxima Fusion, a spinoff from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), will build a fusion power plant that can generate fusion energy in a similar way to the sun and stars.

Unlike several other similar projects underway in the US, Europe, South Korea, and China, which use the Soviet tokamak technology, Proxima Fusion will use the stellarator technology developed in the US in the early 1950s. According to some experts, stellarator reactors are more complicated to build but easier to operate than tokamak reactors.

Proxima Fusion's commercial fusion power plant will be based on Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), a stellarator reactor developed by Max Planck IPP, which we wrote about when it was commissioned in 2015. You can find a picture of W7-X above.

Proxima Fusion hopes to complete its fusion power plant around 2030. Below is a clip showing how Max Planck's stellarator reactor W7-X is built and operates.

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