Some big progress advancing fusion energy in the United States today: the introduction of the American Leadership in Fusion Act, a bill with bipartisan backing that would hasten the day that the country could benefit from this new source of energy. 1/5

In case you've been wondering — yes, we've been quite busy 🧲. We're now up to eight installed toroidal field (TF) magnets of the 18 total our SPARC fusion machine needs to help confine its superhot plasma. 1/2

The cryogenic team at CFS, responsible for the system that pulls heat from the SPARC tokamak and cools its magnets, recently hit a major achievement: Getting SPARC's cryogenic system down to its operating temperature of 8 kelvin. 1/4 youtu.be/eZcoMqijqDA

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