Manufacturing High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Coils for Stellarators & Tokamaks

Stellarators & Tokamaks are magnetic confinement devices producing fusion energy.

This animation illustrates the fabrication of their coils using newly available Rare Earth Barium Copper Oxides (REBCO) superconducting materials. These generate very strong magnetic fields that make the devices more compact and cost-effective.

00:00 Overall process
00:19 HTS tape manufacturing
01:54 Cable manufacturing
02:10 Coil manufacturing
02:28 Coil positioning
02:40 Same process for the tokamak

Note: this is the traditional way of making HTS coils for fusion. At Renaissance Fusion we are reinventing the process and going for something dramatically faster and simpler, but it is important (and fun) to understand and master the standard process first.

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