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MIT-backed fusion startup hits key milestone: Big superconducting magnets

Enlarge / The assembled magnet gets lowered into its testing apparatus. (credit: Commonwealth Fusion Systems) In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature, nonmetallic superconductors were now commercially available and could allow the generation of stronger magnetic fields, enabling a simpler, […]