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Oct 6, 2026

Dan BrunnerGUEST
14:30
And
Hugo RauchHOST
14:34
I guess from a Tokamak perspective, so I think Commonwealth is saying that the first reactor, which is SPARC, is going to be out next year producing energy.
Hugo RauchHOST
14:44
What are some of the key challenges that they have to solve
Dan BrunnerGUEST
14:49
before getting there? Oh, just for getting towards SPARC.
Dan BrunnerGUEST
14:52
Well, I suppose I'll start from when CFS started.
Dan BrunnerGUEST
14:55
The key thing that we innovated that allowed CFS to do what it's doing is taking this superconductor material to make the electromagnets to confine the plasma and engineering it into high-field superconducting magnets.

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Dan BrunnerGUEST
25:05
And it's sitting in a vial waiting, just waiting and eager to be burned with some deuterium.
Hugo RauchHOST
25:11
How much of it do you need to start a reactor? Because you're saying 10 grams, obviously that seems slow, but I think it has quite a lot of power.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
16:38
It's a really exciting time for the company.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
16:41
We are progressing with developing our demonstration fusion power plant, it's called SPARC, here in Devens, Massachusetts, and we moved in here in, uh, 2022.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
16:52
And if you came to campus today, you would see a campus buzzing with 1,000 people or more, uh, every day.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
17:00
There's a factory, 150,000 square foot factory here where we make the magnets that runs three shifts.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
17:10
We are about 80% complete with the plant at this point.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
17:15
So really, it's, it's a beehive of activity as we're getting ready to go operational with our fusion, um, uh, demonstration plant next year, 2027.
Jennifer GantenGUEST
17:25
So SPARC will turn on next year.
Dan HewittHOST
17:27
Okay, so there's, there's plenty that we can unpack there.

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