Posted on 05/28/2025 6:00:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Infinity Two utilizes stellarator fusion technology, proven for stable, continuous, large-scale operation by experiments such as the W7-X machine.
Infinity Two's design is uniquely based on the world's sole implementable, peer-reviewed fusion power plant physics. - Type One Energy
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Type One Energy, a US-based firm, has successfully completed the first formal design review for its “Infinity Two” stellarator fusion reactor power plant.
The advanced design, targeting 350 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the grid by the mid-2030s – enough to power tens of thousands of homes – is now one step closer to realization, particularly in support of a potential project with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
The progress on the Infinity Two fusion reactor design, coupled with the collaboration with TVA, is already attracting attention from the global energy industry.
“Several prominent energy utilities and industrial companies have expressed an interest in Infinity Two and participation in Type One Energy’s deployment of its first-generation fusion power plant technology,” said the firm in a press release.
Rigorous review of the fusion reactor design
This achievement marks the first time a fusion power plant design aiming for such a substantial output has passed an independent technical review. This signals a critical turning point in the race for commercial fusion energy.
The Infinity Two concept is uniquely based on the world’s only implementable, peer-reviewed physics basis for a fusion power plant, recently published in the Journal of Plasma Physics.
The rigorous design review board was chaired by Type One Energy’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Thomas Sunn Pedersen, and included prominent external experts such as Dr. George H. “Hutch” Neilson from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Dr. Paolo Ferroni from Westinghouse Electric Company.
Dr. Neilson lauded the project, stating, “It is the first serious fusion power plant design that I’ve seen. The work they’ve done to date provides a sound foundation for continued design development of what could be the first system to produce net electricity from fusion.”
The successful review confirms that Infinity Two’s technology, architecture, performance, and reliability requirements align with the expectations of TVA and the broader global energy market for a first-of-a-kind commercial fusion power plant.
Efficient design for commercial viability
The Infinity Two architecture is grounded in stellarator fusion technology, which has uniquely demonstrated stable, continuous steady-state operation at a large scale in experiments like the W7-X machine.
“I think it is important that the Type One Energy team is taking a comprehensive plant-level approach to develop their technology which includes a description of all necessary systems, not just the plasma core,” explained Dr. Ferroni.
Type One Energy’s proprietary design aims for a compelling two-year power plant operating cycle, separated by 30-day planned maintenance outages, utilizing existing materials and enabling technologies.
The company has also leveraged a partner-rich commercialization program, with firms like Atkins-Realis assisting in designing systems and structures beyond Type One Energy’s core stellarator focus.
“Our ability to efficiently architect the initial Infinity Two design in an efficient, partner rich manner reaffirms our commitment to pursuing the lowest risk, shortest schedule, path to a commercially viable fusion power plant,” said Christofer Mowry, Chief Executive Officer for Type One Energy.
“The energy industry needs more reliable, clean, power generation technology that can meet the rapidly increasing demand for electricity and we are delivering a commercially compelling solution.”
Hopefully it’ll get further than TVA’s Bellefonte Nuclear Reactor.
Wake me when they have an operating experimental design and have successfully produced profitable surplus power for a year.
Frankly, this all smacks as intentional delay like they’re withholding key tech from researchers.
They are and I would too. I assume all necessary patents are applied for.............
Did it not last a DAY-OH!....DAAAAY-OH?....................
LOL!
Only 20 years away...
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And 20 years from now, it will still be 20 years away ...
If they did work the environmentalists and socialists would work to scrap them.
In reality the phrase negates or eliminates the rights of the individual in favor of the rights of the state, collective, and whatever goal it is injecting into our social fabric.
The phrase has no real purpose besides deception. If you have justice, you don't need social justice.
Aplogies for straying off topic, but when I see this stuff entering the disciplines of science and technology I get very upset because I can plainly see its wordsmithing propaganda. Climate Change is another example. Such practices are rotting our foundations.
Now I know how the church felt when Guttenberg made available the printing press to the world.
And even if these fusion plants do come on line, I don’t expect my electric bill to go down.
If it’s for real this time, the anti-electricity woo-woos of the left will find some reason to be against it.
LOL. Back in the 1970s the guys at the Princeton Tokamak project told me fusion was only 10 years away. I hope this article is right, but I doubt it is.
I don’t know why i clicked on this post but I believe it is due to OCD in some way.
Yep, that is never an outcome of progress. NYS just spread around millions of taxpayer funds for solar farms, they praise the new jobs and the power for x number of homes but NEVER talk about the economics of the project and the cost of production and the cost to ratepayers.
Livermore made the first reactor that maybe broke even (produced more power than it used) in 2025.
I’m calling BS.
Good idea but incomplete. Your way only gets you electricity 12 hours a day. For 24 hr a day electricity, you'll have to do that twice. A spoon full on one side of the sun and a spoon full on the other side. Having said that, why do we need experts when we have people like you and me?
Yeah, that was the first thing that struck me in the article. "Infinity... Two"? Really?
At least it's a bit more inventively ironic than all the office buildings named "Concept One".
China might just get there first and if they do they will rule the next century if not millennium. 17+ minutes is not exactly fleeting.
https://nam.org/chinas-artificial-sun-breaks-record-33195/
“I don’t expect my electric bill to go down.”
They absolutely won’t. Energy is a commodities market. The market has already signaled what it is willing to pay for a certain amount of energy. In the individual housing unit that would average 10,800 kWh per year or so at 12 ish cents per kWh. Regardless of how or who makes those kWh they are going to charge what the market will pay. If it’s super cheap for them then they make huge profits which is the goal not lowering the plebs bills. The industry will charge the maximum it can get every time that’s how commodities market work.
If you truly want to lower your bill you need to generate your own power that removes their market power over you. Be that wind, solar or biomass, cogen with CHP can work if you have access to corporate natural gas rates, retail gas rates are specifically set to make it not economical to burn retail gas for electricity onsite.
Has nothing to do with this really.
By 2035, already-being-implemented battery technology will allow wind farms and solar to be used for use surges, while nuclear remains useful for a steady output for baseline energy usage. That baseline usage probably represents 40% or more of energy usage, meaning nuclear could more than double to meet baseline, and maybe double again by the time electric vehicles and a revitalized domestic industry are accounted for. But at the same time, nuclear power can’t be scaled up and down over a short period, so beyond 40% would require the same sort of battery-enabled delay that solar and wind require. And of course, solar is already much cheaper than conventional nuclear power.
You didn’t really think this article was proposing a single-solution energy policy, did you?
Butt, butt, butt.......
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