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Gauss Fusion is an industrial fusion company based in Garching, Germany. The company is developing the system architecture and critical enabling technologies required to make fusion power plants buildable, maintainable and deployable. “GIGA”, Gauss Fusion’s gigawatt-class fusion power plant concept, provides the architecture baseline to enable a targeted integrated framework for identifying, validating and maturing systems required for fusion development.
Gauss Fusion is advancing proprietary technologies that address critical constraints in fusion power plant design, integration and operation. A key programme under development is “TRIMAT”: an enabling technology platform and tritium ecosystem covering industrialised material choices (IMAT) and integrable tritium technologies (TRI). This includes HEXA tritium breeding blankets with interfacing tritium and heat extraction systems, applicable to any fusion device concept, and the wider HELIOS tritium fuel cycle for stellarators.
IFMIF-DONES is a significant facility in the HEXA breeding blanket qualification strategy to contribute to achieving TRL-6. From a user’s perspective, two significant outcomes are foreseen using the facility. On the one hand, IFMIF-DONES may act as a qualifying platform, enabling partial integration testing to demonstrate HEXA breeding blanket functions and, therefore, supporting TRL progression. On the other hand, IFMIF-DONES will act as a substantiation device, to obtain material properties under relevant fusion neutron irradiation that will enable End-Of-Life assessments of baseline reactor materials for GIGA. To facilitate the leveraging of IFMIF-DONES for these two critical development programs, it is essential that the facility has the relevant volume and environmental conditions (multiple effects and neutron fluence) for prototype testing, and the appropriate supporting auxiliary systems.