Fusion energy holds the promise of delivering substantial carbon- free baseload energy for the planet. In magnetic confinement fusion devices, turbulent transport of particles and heat degrades the efficiency of these machines, limiting their potential as net-energy sources. Stellarators are a type of magnetic fusion device with significant flexibility in the device geometry, which provides an opportunity to optimize the device to reduce transport and thereby improve efficiency. This would enable a transport- optimized stellarator to become the basis for commercial fusion energy generation. 

The design and construction of such transport-optimized stellarators is a central goal of Type One Energy Group, Inc. Following decades of foundational Department of Energy research on the nature of turbulence in fusion plasmas, this INCITE project will use state-of-the-art multi- scale plasma turbulence simulations to predict and optimize fusion performance of new stellarator concepts being proposed for construction by Type One Energy. The results obtained with the proposed research will represent the most advanced transport physics basis required to design stellarator reactors that will be built by Type One Energy, accelerating the path to support the White House’s Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy