Chinese energy company Energy Singularity has built the world’s first high-temperature superconducting tokamak. The installation, called HH70, is located in Shanghai. HH70 received the world’s first magnetic system made of high-temperature superconducting materials (yttrium-barium-copper oxide).
Energy Singularity achieved this result in just two years, setting a world record for the fastest development and construction of superconducting current.
Tokamaks are generally large devices that are very expensive to build. But as CGTN reports, the HH70 is smaller and cheaper, and its successful operation will prove the technical application of high-temperature superconducting currents for commercial use.
Energy Singularity plans to build a next-generation tokamak, a stable model of a high-temperature superconductor with a strong magnetic field, by 2027. The ultimate goal will be to establish a demonstration power plant by 2030.