NOVATRON—a breakthrough in fusion power design.

Key advantages of the NOVATRON technology.

STABLE PLASMA CONFINEMENT

Our unique magnetic field design ensures stable plasma confinement under fusion conditions, eliminating the need for expensive magnets or complex stabilization systems.
HIGH ENERGY CONFINEMENT TIME AND Q-VALUES

Our triple-force confinement enables plasma to achieve remarkably high energy confinement times, essential for attaining high Q-values (where energy output exceeds energy input) and facilitating efficient, sustained fusion reactions.
EFFICIENT STEADY-STATE OPERATION

Our design facilitates the direct conversion of ionized particles into electricity, enhancing reactor output and maintaining continuous operation through the efficient supply of fuel and removal of exhaust gas (helium).
COST-EFFECTIVE DESIGN

The simplicity of the NOVATRON design and the use of cost-effective, durable copper magnets for the D-T fuel cycle facilitate low construction, operational, and maintenance costs, resulting in competitive energy prices.
LOW COMPLEXITY FOR SCALEABILITY

We target industrialization from the outset with our straightforward design approach, facilitating the easy scaling up of NOVATRON manufacturing volumes by using readily available parts from established supply chains.
MULTI-FUEL CAPABILITY

By utilizing HTS magnets, NOVATRON can attain high β-values (the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure) and generate optimal conditions (increased temperature and pressure) for a D-D fuel cycle, obtained from regular water, further lowering costs and minimizing environmental impact.

Our unique solution to fusion.

NUCLEAR FUSION, the energy source for stars, demands exceedingly high temperatures and pressures to counteract the repulsive forces between atomic nuclei. To replicate these conditions on Earth, various confinement techniques have been developed to manage and control the hot plasma necessary for fusion.

NOVATRON represents an advanced fusion solution that ensures stable confinement and maintains plasma over extended periods with minimal leakage—two essential factors for the efficient operation of a fusion power plant.

With its distinctive magnetic field design and triple-force plugging technology, NOVATRON offers stability characteristics absent in earlier fusion plasma confinement designs. The approach has received theoretical validation from field experts and has also been confirmed for feasibility through plasma simulations.

Triple-force confinement.

THE NOVATRON IS THE FIRST DESIGN to integrate three distinct physical methods of axial end-plugging where part of the plasma otherwise would leak out. While these three mechanisms are well-researched, they have never been combined in a fusion context. Together, they significantly enhance the plasma confinement time, τE (Tau-E), and energy efficiency.

This is achieved by the magnetic mirrors in the NOVATRON base concept.
This technology employs electrostatic methods at magnetic mirrors to establish an electric potential within the plasma. Higher-temperature plasma in additional tandem cells aids in containing the core plasma, significantly enhancing its temperature and density.
A method of plasma confinement using an external electric RF-field, utilizing the so-called ponderomotive force. This isolates the higher temperature plasma in the tandem cells from the plasma in the core cell, significantly prolonging plasma confinement time.

By combining these physical phenomena, we can achieve very stable plasma with barely any leakage, making NOVATRON efficient and reliable for continuous baseload energy production. With energy confinement time expected to improve by a factor of 100 or more, NOVATRON will generate energy well beyond what a fusion reactor needs for a competitive Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE).

“The NOVATRON device has a large amount of symmetry and thus simplicity. This is extremely important in terms of efficiency and economics.”

— JAN SCHEFFEL, Professor Emeritus in Theoretical Fusion Plasma Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Flexible scaleability.

THE NOVATRON DESIGN enables great flexibility in terms of reactor plasma volume and the usage of magnets for plasma confinement. This flexibility allows for building small plants with superconductive magnets and large plants with resistive magnets, ranging from roughly 100 MW to 5 GW thermal energy. By adapting the size to needs, the NOVATRON design can be applied to anything from consuming industries to densely populated regions with tens of millions of people.