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Presenter: Hiroshi Gota 1 ARPA-E ALPHA Annual Review Mee9ng San Francisco, CA August 30, 2017 Status Update on Tri Alpha Energy’s Fusion Program Hiroshi Gota, Michl Binderbauer, and the TAE Team Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. ARPA-E ALPHA Annual Review Meeting San Francisco, CA August 30, 2017

Status Update on Tri Alpha Energy’s Fusion Program Hiroshi Gota ARPA-E ALPHA Annual Review Mee9ng 1 San Francisco, CA – August 30, 2017 Status Update on Tri Alpha Energy’s Fusion

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Presenter:HiroshiGota 1 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Status Update on Tri Alpha Energy’s Fusion Program Hiroshi Gota, Michl Binderbauer, and the TAE Team Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. ARPA-E ALPHA Annual Review Meeting San Francisco, CA August 30, 2017

Presenter:HiroshiGota 2 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Beginning with the End in Mind Holistic Approach to Fusion

•  Net Energy Output!•  “long enough”!•  “hot enough”!•  sufficiently efficient!

•  Technology Readiness!•  aneutronic fuel!•  low materials challenge!•  ease of maintenance!

•  Cost Competitive!•  compact size!•  least environmental impact!•  efficient energy conversion!

Scien9ficValida9on

EngineeringIntegra9on

CommercialViability

Presenter:HiroshiGota 3 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Field-Reversed Configurations and Tri Alpha Energy’s Concept WhyFRCs?:•  Highplasmaβ~1

•  compactandhighpowerdensity•  aneutronicfuelcapability;e.g.,p+11B•  indigenouskine9cpar9cles

•  Simplegeometry•  onlydiamagne9ccurrents•  easierdesign&maintenance

•  Linearunrestricteddivertor•  facilitatesimpurity,ashandpowerremoval

TAE’sapproach:•  TangenDalneutralbeaminjecDon(NBI)

•  largeorbitionpopula9on•  improvestabilityandtransport

•  Fastions•  decoupledfrommicroturbulence•  slowdownatnearclassicalrates

Field-reversedconfiguraDon

Neutral-beaminjecDon(NBI)

Neutral-beaminjecDonandfast-ionorbit

Presenter:HiroshiGota 4 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

TAE’s Research Philosophy Accelerated Learning Towards “Hot and Long Enough”

•  TestforfailureearlyandatreducedcostwhilereducingmostcriDcalrisks•  Rapidprototyping

•  datadrivenresearch–largeexperimentaldataset(>50,000shots)•  highdegreeofrepeatability

•  Tightlyintegratetheory/modelingwithexperimentaDon•  DevelopengineeringknowhowandintegraDon•  InvitecollaboraDontoaccelerateprogress

•  UCI,UCLA,BudkerIns9tute(Russia),PPPL,LLNL,ORNL,UW-Madison,Univ.ofPisa(Italy),NihonUniv.(Japan),Univ.ofWashington,SwarthmoreCollege,Industrialpartners

Presenter:HiroshiGota 5 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Exciting and Productive Collaboration with Google Collaboration Rapidly Accelerating the Science of Fusion

•  VerysuccessfulrelaDonshipwithGooglebeganin2014

•  TAEandGoogleteamsapplyingarDficialintelligence/machinelearningtoadvancedplasmaresearch

•  OngoingdedicaDonofsubstanDalscienDfic,technicalandcompuDngresourcesbyGoogle

•  PublicannouncementJuly2017inconjuncDonwithpublishingofjointpaper– Scien&ficReports7,6425(2017).

Presenter:HiroshiGota 6 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

TAE Research Program Evolution From 2000 to Present – Demonstration of ~5 ms Plasma Sustainment

* HPF – High Performance FRC regime

A & B – Basic FRC core!!  100-800 G, 5-10 eV !  ion beams, Wb ~0.1 kJ

C-2 – HPF* w/ 2 guns, Ti getter!!  1 kG, 1 keV !  neutral beams, Wb ~12 kJ

C-2 – HPF* w/ 2 guns, Li getter!!  1 kG, 1 keV !  neutral beams, Wb ~20 kJ

C-2U – Sustainment 5+ ms!!  1 kG, 1 keV !  neutral beams, Wb ~100 kJ

C-1 – Enhanced lifetime!!  400 G, 10 eV !  ion beams, Wb ~1 kJ

Presenter:HiroshiGota 7 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

C-2/C-2U Key Accomplishments Advancement of FRC Performance and Favorable Confinement Scaling

C-2 C-2U

GlobalenergyconfinementDmeinC-2/C-2UParDcleconfinementDmeinC-2(vsothers)ElectronenergyconfinementDmevs.electrontemperatureinC-2/C-2U

Presenter:HiroshiGota 8 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

C-2W Device (aka “Norman”) – 5th Generation Substantial Upgrades, 10× Stored Energy Towards “Hot Enough”, Validate Scaling Law

UpgradedNB’s:~13MW,~30ms(~19MWinPhase2)

Plasmagunsandbiasingelectrodes:highvoltage&longpulsecapability

Newconfinementvessel:skin9me<3ms

Innerdivertor:highvacuumpumping

Outerdivertor

UpgradedformaDonsecDons:~15mWbtrappedflux

Newmagnetsystem:fieldramp&ac9vecontrol

Parameter Value

Bext, T  ~0.1–0.3

rs, cm ~40

Ls, m ~3

ne, m-3 ~3–5×1019

Ti, keV ~1–2

Te, keV ~0.2–1

Pulse length, ms up to 30

DesignedC-2WParameters

Presenter:HiroshiGota 9 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Summary Essential Characteristics of TAE’s Fusion Approach •  Fusionenvisionedasanappliedproduct

•  focusonendinmind•  acceleratedlearningwithearlyriskre9rement(inverseriskprofile)

•  Aneutronicfusionpromisesclean,sustainableandaffordablepower•  9nyradioac9vefootprint–comparabletonuclearmedicine•  noatmosphericemissions•  worldwideabundantfuelfornexttensofthousandsofyears

•  InnovaDon–combinesadvancedacceleratorandplasmaphysics•  breakthroughinstabilityandreducedlossrates•  enablescompactandeconomicreactors

•  Progress/what’snext•  C-2Uplasmasustainmentcompellingfounda9onfor“longenough”•  3yearC-2Wprojectunderway–towards“hotenough”•  Begintoworkontocommercializa9onplanw/u9li9esandindustrialpartners

Presenter:HiroshiGota 10 ARPA-EALPHAAnnualReviewMee9ngSanFrancisco,CA–August30,2017

Thank you!