Norm

Operational
TAE Technologies
TAE Technologies
Norm

Overview

TAE's streamlined fusion research machine that forms field-reversed-configuration plasmas using only neutral beam injection, reducing reactor size, complexity, and cost versus Norman while preserving the path to commercial hydrogen-boron fusion.

Operational in Foothill Ranch, California. Norm routinely delivers TAE's highest plasma performance and is being upgraded to 100 million degrees Celsius.

Key Specs

Plasma Temperature

70+ million °C

Machine Length

~12 m / 40 ft

Configuration

NBI-only FRC