Overview of ST40 results and planned upgrades

In 2018 Tokamak Energy Ltd. completed the first campaign of operations in the low aspect ratio ST40 tokamak, and recently have begun the next campaign of operations. In this paper we present results from Merging/Compression start-up and first confinement results from ST40, along with planned upgrades taking ST40 to it’s design parameters of R/a = 0.4/0.22 = 1.8, 2MA plasma current, 3T toroidal field and up to 4MW auxiliary heating.