3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Extension of the fusion power plant costing standard
Simon Woodruff, Alicia Durham, Alex Higginbottom +1
This paper documents the work of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) International Working Group (IWG) on Fusion Cost Analysis in 2024-2025, and the methodological extensions implement…
physics.soc-ph2026
A costing framework for fusion power plants
Simon Woodruff
This paper summarizes and consolidates fusion power-plant costing work performed in support of ARPA-E from 2017 through 2024, and documents the evolution of the associated analysis…
physics.plasm-ph2018
Magnetothermodynamics: Measurements of the thermodynamic properties in a relaxed magnetohydrodynamic plasma
M. Kaur, L. J. Barbano, E. M. Suen-Lewis +6
We have explored the thermodynamics of compressed magnetized plasmas in laboratory experiments and we call these studies "magnetothermodynamics". The experiments are carried out in…