SPARC (tokamak)

SPARC is a tokamak under development by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).

[3] SPARC plans to verify the technology and physics required to build a power plant based on the ARC fusion power plant concept.

[2][1] The project is scheduled to start operations in 2026, with the goal of demonstrating net power (Q > 1) in 2027.

[9] In March 2021, CFS announced that it planned to build SPARC at its campus in Devens, Massachusetts.

[10] In September 2021, the project successfully tested a prototype toroidal high-field coil, achieving a record for high-temperature superconducting magnets, with a field strength of 20 T at the temperature of 20 K.[11] In November 2024, a prototype of the reactor's central solenoid was demonstrated, and the building housing SPARC in Devens was largely completed, with assembly of the SPARC tokomak in early stages.

Construction site in May 2023