TAE Technologies

For the nuclear reaction, see Triple-alpha process.

TAE Technologies, Inc.[1]
FormerlyTri Alpha Energy, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryFusion Power Energy Storage
FoundedApril 1998; 26 years ago (1998-04)
Founders
HeadquartersFoothill Ranch, California, United States
Key people
Number of employees
250[5]
Subsidiaries
  • TAE Power Management
  • TAE Life Sciences
Websitewww.tae.com

TAE Technologies, formerly Tri Alpha Energy, is an American company based in Foothill Ranch, California developing aneutronic fusion power. The company's design relies on an advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC),[6] which combines features from accelerator physics and other fusion concepts in a unique fashion, and is optimized for hydrogen-boron fuel, also known as proton-boron or p-11B.[7][8] It regularly publishes theoretical and experimental results in academic journals with hundreds of publications and posters at scientific conferences and in a research library hosting these articles on its website.[9][10][11] TAE has developed five generations of original fusion platforms with a sixth currently in development.[12] It aims to manufacture a prototype commercial fusion reactor by 2030.[13]

  1. ^ Boyle, Alan (30 November 2017). "TAE Fusion Venture Wins Supercomputer Time – and Reports Progress on Test Device". GeekWire.
  2. ^ "TAE rearranges its leadership and gets ready for next chapter in fusion quest backed by Paul Allen". 17 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Tri Alpha Energy Appoints CTO Michl Binderbauer as Company President". MarketWatch. 11 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Research Homepage of Toshiki Tajima". School of Physical Science, University of California, Irvine. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014.
  5. ^ "TAE Technologies – About Us". 9 August 2016.
  6. ^ Gota, H.; Binderbauer, M.W.; Tajima, T.; Putvinski, S.; Tuszewski, M.; Dettrick, S.; Garate, E.; Korepanov, S.; Smirnov, A.; Thompson, M.C.; Trask, E. (4 August 2017). "Achievement of field-reversed configuration plasma sustainment via 10 MW neutral-beam injection on the C-2U device". Nuclear Fusion. 57 (11): 116021. Bibcode:2017NucFu..57k6021G. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aa7d7b. ISSN 0029-5515. S2CID 19931583.
  7. ^ Fehrenbacher, Katie (10 July 2017). "Nuclear Fusion Startup Tri Alpha Energy Hits a Big Milestone". GreenTechMedia.
  8. ^ Shieber, Jonathan (8 April 2021). "Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030". Techcrunch.
  9. ^ "Tri Alpha Energy Research Library". Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  10. ^ Weller, Henry R. (10 October 2012). Tri-Alpha structures in 12C (PDF). Light Nuclei from First Principles- INT-2012. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  11. ^ Gota, Hiroshi; Binderbauer, Michl W.; Guo, Houyang Y.; Tuszewski, Michel; Barnes, Dan; Sevier, Leigh (16 August 2011). A Well-Confined Field-Reversed Configuration Plasma Formed by Dynamic Merging of Two Colliding Compact Toroids in C-2 (PDF). Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC) & US-Japan Compact Torus Plasma (CT) Workshops. Seattle, WA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  12. ^ Powell, Corey S. (3 June 2020). "The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy". Nautilus. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  13. ^ Di Paulo Emilio, Maurizio (21 May 2021). "Carbon-free Energy by Fusion Technology". EE Times.