Explosive Forming
American Exchanger Services is uniquely equipped and experienced to perform projects involving HERF. For this reason, Scientists from the University of Wisconsin Madison came to AM-EX with a drawing of a new concept in fusion reactor design. This design was a helically symmetric stellerator, which required a highly irregular structure for the vacuum chamber. This design greatly simplifies the operation of the plasma while greatly increasing the fabrication complexity of the reactor. AM-EX was able to work with the scientists to explosively form this extreme shape to very tight tolerances.
With operating temperatures in excess of
8 millionoF, this was truly an amazing project
for American Exchanger Services to be involved in.