NovaLogic is building compact fusion reactors with high-temperature superconducting magnets and real-time plasma control, on a path to firm, carbon-free baseload power.
The Reactor
High-temperature superconducting magnets confine plasma at fields that shrink the reactor by an order of magnitude.
Millisecond feedback control keeps the plasma stable and away from disruptive instabilities.
A lithium blanket that breeds its own fuel and captures fusion heat to drive a turbine.
Fusion runs around the clock with no carbon, no long-lived waste, and fuel from seawater.
Questions
Why compact reactors instead of large ones?
Confinement scales steeply with magnetic field. High-temperature superconductors let us reach far higher fields, which dramatically shrinks the reactor for the same power.
Is fusion radioactive like fission?
Fusion produces no long-lived high-level waste and cannot melt down. The fuel is hydrogen isotopes, and the reaction stops the instant conditions are not maintained.
Where does the fuel come from?
Deuterium from seawater and tritium bred on-site from lithium. The fuel supply is effectively unlimited.
When will fusion reach the grid?
We are building toward net-energy demonstration this decade, followed by pilot plants. We publish our milestones as we hit them.
How can we work with NovaLogic?
We partner with utilities, investors, and suppliers of advanced materials. Reach out and we will find the right conversation.
Fusion is the firm, clean baseload the grid needs. Let us show you the path.
Talk to UsField Notes
For decades fusion got bigger and slower. High-temperature superconductors let it get smaller and faster, because confinement scales with the fourth power of magnetic field.
Read more →A fusion plasma is unstable by nature. Keeping it confined is a real-time control problem on the order of milliseconds, and it is as much software as physics.
Read more →Fusion's elegance is that it can make its own tritium. The blanket that surrounds the plasma is not a detail; it is what turns a physics experiment into a power plant.
Read more →Solar and wind are cheap and intermittent. A decarbonized grid still needs something clean that runs all the time. Fusion is the strongest candidate for that role.
Read more →Fusion progressed slowly partly because every decision waited on a decade-long megaproject. Faster, cheaper machines let you learn the way every other hard technology was learned: by building.
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