There are other entities in the race, including Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and the now-inactive but still operational
Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT.
The team set a new world record for plasma pressure in an
Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.
The
Alcator C-Mod is a relatively small tokamak experiment at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
He is professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also coprincipal of the
Alcator Project in the Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Becci Lewis (pictured), from Cardiff University, won a Nintendo Wii Sports from
Alcator.
But Bruno Coppi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argues that experimentation with deuterium and helium-3 could be done in some current mainstream experiments--MIT's
Alcator, for example.
The document indicates that the NDCX-II at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory would not be operated in FY 2015 and that
Alcator C-Mod at MIT would close in late FY 2016.
He and his MIT team designed, built, and operate the
Alcator C-Mod tokamak, whose plasmas, with temperatures reaching beyond 50 million degrees Celsius, are prototypical of a future fusion reactor.
The Bill provides $22,260,000 for operations and research on the
Alcator C-Mod at MIT.