Solves the most pressing challenge for toroidal magnetic confinement: plasma exhaust and material erosion.
How?
Sun-hot at the edge, tamed by liquid metal
Super-XT divertor keeps the plasma at the plasma material boundary very hot (the temperature of the sun).
Uses novel liquid metal alloys to handle the material challenges of plasma-material interaction.
The conventional approach relies on a cold plasma to
manage the heat exhaust (the temperature of a
fluorescent light) which also reduces plasma confinement.
What will it do?
Higher performance, faster development
The Super-XT divertor greatly increases the performance of toroidal fusion devices.
This can make the devices far cheaper and easier to develop (more rapid development cycle).
