Le projet de fusion USA de Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Publié : 19 juin 2020, 10:04
Une startup leve 84 millions de dollars aux USA pour un projet de fusion.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... stream=topNuclear Fusion Startup Gets $84 Million to Enter Next Phase
Temasek and Equinor join equity round in Commonwealth Fusion Systems
By Akshat Rathi 26 mai 2020
U.S. clean-energy startup, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, raised an additional $84 million from major investors in Europe and Asia, underscoring that the appetite remains to back new technologies which could mitigate climate change.
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Singapore’s Temasek Holding Pte and Norway’s Equinor ASA were among equity investors in Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ latest round, according to Chief Executive Officer Bob Mumgaard, who said the cash will be used to build a headquarters and manufacturing facility. The company, called CFS, was founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 and has now raised more than $200 million.
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CFS aims to show that its high-temperature superconducting magnets work at scale next year, and then hopes to build a working prototype reactor by 2025 or sooner. If it succeeds to showcase that fusion reactions can be carried out with the help of these new types of magnets, then CFS will build a commercial reactor by the early 2030s, says Mumgaard.
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