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Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems has publicly stated that it targets first plasma at SPARC in 2026 and net energy gain, Q greater than 1, in 2027, and separately that it aims to put power on the grid from the ARC plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia in the early 2030s. These are company announcements about a machine that has not yet operated. They are recorded here as declared targets — not forecasts, not independent assessments, and not evidence of any outcome.

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  1. Story
  2. Commonwealth Fusion Systems has publicly stated that it targets first plasma at SPARC in 2026 and net energy gain, Q greater than 1, in 2027, and separately that it aims to put power on the grid from the ARC plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia in the early 2030s. These are company announcements about a machine that has not yet operated. They are recorded here as declared targets — not forecasts, not independent assessments, and not evidence of any outcome.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tokamak (toroidal magnetic confinement)
  5. Fusion energy gain (Q) and target gain
  6. Private fusion sector
  7. Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC
  8. Connections
  9. Private fusion sector
  10. Tokamak (toroidal magnetic confinement)
  11. Fusion energy gain (Q) and target gain
  12. Tritium
  13. Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC
  14. Fusion triple product (n·T·τ_E)
  15. Tritium
  16. Deuterium
  17. Stellarator
  18. ITER
  19. Joint European Torus (JET)
  20. EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak)
  21. JET's DTE1 campaign sets the first deuterium-tritium fusion power record
  22. JET's DTE2 campaign releases 59 MJ in a single pulse
  23. JET sets the single-pulse fusion energy record of 69.26 MJ
  24. ITER presents an updated project baseline to the ITER Council
  25. EAST sustains a high-confinement plasma for 1,066 seconds
  26. Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC
  27. National Ignition Facility
  28. Joint European Torus (JET)
  29. Breakeven
  30. JET's DTE1 campaign sets the first deuterium-tritium fusion power record
  31. NIF achieves target gain greater than unity for the first time
  32. NIF repeats target gain and raises the yield to 3.88 MJ
  33. JET sets the single-pulse fusion energy record of 69.26 MJ
  34. NIF achieves ignition for the sixth time
  35. NIF reaches 8.6 MJ yield and a target gain of 4.13
  36. Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC
  37. Evidence
  38. The private sector's commercial fusion dates are company-declared targets for machines that have not yet operated, not independently assessed forecasts
  39. Scale, growth and self-reported funding of the private fusion sector, and the sector's own statement that access to funding remains a major challenge
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