Materials for Fusion
Approaches to fusion energy
Fusion systems have unique materials challenges to create sustainable, performing, and predictable characteristics to unlock the technology as a carbon-free energy source.
We focus on producing sustainable, integrated materials for pilot and commercial fusion power stations in order to accelerate the energy source, covering inertial confinement, tokamaks, stellarators, field-reversed configuration, and many others.
Conventional Tokamak
![tokomak](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/tokomak.jpg)
Spherical Tokamak
![spherical](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/spherical.jpg)
Stellarator
![stellarator-diagram](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/stellarator-diagram.jpg)
Inertial Confinement
![icf](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/icf.jpg)
Our ecosystem
Oxford Sigma aims to produce materials technology for fusion that utilises our ecosystem model where our solutions possess the following characteristics:
![system-eco](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/system-eco.jpg)
Our approach
Oxford Sigma believes that materials technology is key to the acceptance of fusion. To ensure this can be realised, we focus on:
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Fusion Materials Engineering by applying agnostic approaches to ensure promising candidates
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Leading qualification of fusion pressure vessels by contributing to the ASME BPVC Section III Division 4 “Fusion Energy Devices” construction code and standard
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Leading Fusion Component Design such as first-wall structures and blankets
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Regulatory Compliance where suitable routes for meeting standards and reliability is at the core
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Experts on radiation damage in functional and structural materials, covering neutron, ion, plasma, and gamma-ray doses
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Developing novel Magnetohydrodynamics models for liquid metal blankets to de-risk our technology
We believe our integrated approach yields realistic materials for fusion energy. Oxford Sigma technologies are integrated across the fusion core:
![integrated-approach-3](https://oxfordsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/integrated-approach-3.jpg)