Fusion Pioneer Rod Bateman HTS
High temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets open the pathway to commercial fusion energy from a spherical tokamak device. In this week’s Fusion Pioneer video, Dr Rod Bateman, our Magnet Development Manager, explains why HTS' capacity to operate in a high background field is so important for the design of future fusion power plants.
"The greatest challenge solved so far is the development of high-temperature superconducting magnets that are suitably robust and compact so that they can enable a spherical tokamak”, says Rod. “This means that future fusion power plants can be compact and efficient—and hence commercially viable."