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FIRST TOKAMAK COMPONENT INSTALLED IN A COMMERCIAL FUSION PLANT

arstechnica.com5 min read

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Commonwealth Fusion recently installed the first component of its tokamak, the cryostat base. Construction is expected to wrap up about a year from now, after which there will be about a year of commissioning the hardware. Fusion experiments are planned for 2027. The company is on track to see plasma well in advance of ITER, a big tokamak that is expected to produce more energy than required to run it.