Knoxville nuclear company papers show ‘no scientific barriers’ to fusion power plant

From the article

[Type One Energy](https://typeoneenergy.com/), a Knoxville-based company with a mission to build the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion power plant, has published a collection of papers it says leave “no scientific barriers” in its path to bringing the power of the sun to Earth.

The six peer-reviewed scholarly papers and an editorial were published in a [special issue](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant) of the [Journal of Plasma Physics](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics), the company announced March 27.

The articles describe the science behind Type One Energy’s fusion power plant design, part of a class of technologies called [stellarators](http://stellarator/), which use powerful magnetic fields to contain plasma heated to around 100 million degrees Celsius, or around 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.

[One of their papers could be seen here ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant)

Yeah yeah, the smarty pants figured this out in the 60’s.

But listen, speaking for all engineers here, “have something very very hot next to something very very cold” is an easy sentence to write and a hard thing to do.

“Company declines to make claim that would immediately bankrupt it”