Fusion Research
HVPS and RF Amplifier Systems for Fusion Research
Since the 1980s, Thomson Broadcast has been involved in the research of creating long-term, safe, and environmentally benign energy through nuclear fusion. Thomson Broadcast has designed and delivered flexible, reliable, and scalable HVPS and RF Amplifier Systems for various plasma heating systems such as Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH), Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH), Neutral Beam Injection (NBI), and Lower Hybrid Heating and Current Drive (LH).
Indeed fusion is a particularly attractive energy solution. A single fusion power station can generate electricity for two million households and is a fascinating alternative for the large-scale electricity production required to meet the needs of large cities and a growing and developing global population.
Thomson technology is applied in such plasma heating research facilities as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), US; General Atomics (GA), US; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US; Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany; Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP), Switzerland; and Research Institute FZ Juelich, Germany.