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SUMMARY:High-field superconducting magnet technology for SPARC\, a compact 
	net-energy fusion tokamak
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Zach Hartwig \, MIT\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/in
	ternal//files/download/Hartwig-Poster.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department
	 Colloquia Series.\n\nLarge-scale high temperature superconductor (HTS) mag
	nets that exceed 20 tesla offer an accelerated path to commercial fusion en
	ergy in the 2030s. However\, in a high-field fusion device\, magnets must s
	urvive extreme mechanical\, electrical\, and thermal conditions and possess
	 simple\, low-resistance\, and manufacturable electrical joints\, high ther
	mal stability\, and robust strategies to handle thermal runaway quench even
	ts. Furthermore\, the technology to solve these challenges must be qualifie
	d at the scale and maturity necessary to begin rapid manufacturing of magne
	ts to meet aggressive timelines. Since 2018\, the MIT Plasma Science and Fu
	sion Center and Commonwealth Fusion Systems have jointly been developing hi
	gh-field HTS magnet technology for SPARC\, a compact fusion tokamak seeking
	 to generate >50 megawatts of fusion power with a gain factor of >2 in the 
	mid 2020s. This seminar will provide an overview of (1) the SPARC tokamak a
	nd the underlying physics motivating the high-field approach; (2) demonstra
	tion of 50 to 100 kiloamp class HTS superconducting cables for large-scale 
	magnets; and (3) the SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil\, the largest HTS magn
	et to date by several orders of magnitude that will demonstrate 20 tesla op
	eration in the summer of 2021.
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