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It is very good news that General Fusion has raised more funding and is able to move forward with their demonstration plant. It still remains to be seen which concept(s) will work in the end and which concept(s) will not. The KSTAR tokamak in Korea run at 100 MK for 20 s, so there is still a lot of ...

Here is a nice video summarizing the progress at Tokamak Energy in 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNquPUriIw.

The presentations from the Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting 2020 are published on the website http://firefusionpower.org/fpa_annual_meet.html.

The article Translating JET into ITER describes the interesting tritium-tritium and deuterium-tritium experiments at JET, which are planned to start in about two months time: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3520.

The schedule for the deuterium-tritium runs on JET has slipped many times as reflected by the title of this rather old thread. This has happened for various reasons. But the preparations are coming to an end and the tritium experiments are currently scheduled for 2021. Hopefully there will be no fur...

Physics Today has a nice overview article about CFS, GF, TAE Technologies, TE and Zap Energy written by David Kramer with the title Investments in privately funded fusion ventures grow: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/1 ... 013a/full/.

Brandon Sorbom, Commonwealth Fusion Systems will give a MIT PFSC seminar ARC and the path to high field fusion on Oct 9, 2020 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) https://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2020/ar ... eld-fusion.

This is one of the abstracts submitted by Zap Energy Inc. to the 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics. It will be interesting to see how they can scale up their device. Abstract: CP20.00015 : Scaling of the Sheared-flow-stabilized Z Pinch toward Reactor Conditions http://meeting...

CFS has submitted several abstracts to the 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics. Abstract: BP13.00001 : SPARC and the High-field Path to Fusion Energy http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP20/Session/BP13.1 Abstract: JO08.00001 : Recent progress on the high-field path to commercial...

Here are some General Fusion related abstracts from the 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics. The are studying interesting plasma wall interactions. Abstract: CP19.00023 : Effects on Stable MHD Region of a Magnetized Target Plasma Compression http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP2...

The abstracts for the 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics taking place virtually November 9–13, 2020, Time Zone: Central Standard Time, USA are available at http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP20/.

Nice to see you back on TP after the break Skipjack! Thanks bud! It is good to be back. After all these years, everyone here is a bit like extended family to me. Hope to see more people return now that the forum is back up! It is interesting what you report about Helion Energy as they have really b...

Helion has been slowly inching towards break even. Unfortunately they are extremely tight lipped about their progress. They have been even more so since the Alpha program ended. The information that I think I can disclose is putting them somewhere in the 10^20 keV * s/m3 range. Note that those are ...

The unsolved problem of fusion energy is to construct an energy producing economical fusion core. The next hard problem is to develop all new materials required by such a working fusion core. The external construction phase of the UKAEA facility for fusion material research is ready now and it will ...

There are two more articles written by Jonathan Tennenbaum on LPP Fusion:
https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/nuclear-f ... -easy-way/
https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/a-cheaper ... ar-fusion/