Employees of Madison-based Realta Fusion work side-by-side with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the WHAM experiment to advance nuclear fusion, with the ultimate goal of powering the globe with limitless, clean energy.
The company was founded by Kieran Furlong, UW-Madison professors Cary Forest, Ben Lindley and Oliver Schmitz and senior scientist Jay Anderson. WHAM is housed at the Physical Sciences Lab in Stoughton.
WHAM’s approach to fusion is called the magnetic mirror — a type of magnetic confinement, which creates plasma and contains and heats it with strong magnetic fields until nuclei fuse, releasing energy.
Realta said it is on track to reach commercially viable fusion energy as soon as 2035.
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