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A new public-private funding initiative INFUSE - Innovation Network for Fusion Energy has been launched with this website https://infuse.ornl.gov/ . More details on this can be found in this presentation https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3423370/attachments/1855367/3047193/INFUSE_Int...

Whytes talk is now available on the conference site: https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3315374/attachments/1855772/3048091/SPARC_SOFE_2019_Whyte.pdf CFS has more than 100 people working now and 70 of them are working on the HTS magnets. The HTS magnet development project is scheduled...

General Fusion will participate in the 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA with a poster contribution: Kelly Epp, Formation of a Spherical Tokamak Plasma for Compression in a Liquid Metal...

Dennis Youchison, Private/Public Partnerships in Fusion Energy Research, 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA The U.S. DOE is providing opportunities for collaborative research between pr...

D.G. Whyte (MIT), SPARC and the high-field approach to fusion energy, 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA The SPARC tokamak and accompanying R&D program is based around the high-fiel...

ARPA-E is seeking information from diverse R&D communities, from both within and especially outside the fusion R&D community, about technological solutions and innovations that can enable commercially viable fusion power plants. While it is impossible to predict precisely what is needed for...

Michl Binderbauer will talk at SOFE 2019 on Development of fusion technologies and their application at TAE https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3306748/ . 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort,1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, F...

General Fusion will participate in the 2019 CAP Congress, June 3 – 7, 2019 at the Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC) https://www.cap.ca/congress-conference/congress-2019/ with four contributions: Dr Michel Laberge, General Fusion's Approach to Magnetized Target Fusion https://indico.cern.ch/event...

The First International Conference on Innovative Fusion Approaches (ICIFA) will be held on May 26-28, 2019 in Xi'an, China. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers in the innovative fusion space to discuss the latest developments and achievements. The topics include Magnetic-inert...

I wonder what the relative difficulty/cost of getting fusion neutrons from a Z-pinch machine is compared to getting them from a Hirsch-Farnsworth fusor. Is there any other confinement concept for which the barrier to entry is as low (or nearly so) as the fusor? (An accelerator, perhaps, but that's ...

This documents reports on an ARPA-E sponsored JASON assessment of the “Prospects for Low Cost Fusion Development.” Specifically, the question is whether magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is a promising approach toward achieving controlled thermonuclear fusion at dramatically lower costs than other appr...

Transient coaxial helical injection (CHI) allows a tokamak to be started without a central solenoid. This seems to be rather interesting and promising.
https://www.pppl.gov/news/2019/04/ready-set-go-scientists-evaluate-novel-technique-firing-fuel-feeds-fusion-reactions

Tokamak Energy has successfully operated ST40 for the first time after the move: Last year’s milestone achievement of 15 million degree temperatures in the ST40 tokamak was achieved with ST40 in our old building at 120 Olympic Avenue on Milton Park. Soon after, the whole tokamak was dismantled and m...

A research centre to support China's push for nuclear fusion power has been approved. It will be able to test large superconducting magnets and filters under operational conditions. China aims to construct a tokamak fusion reactor, known as the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor, and launch its ...

The ARPA-E ALPHA funding project had an annual meeting in 2018. The projects presented one page summary slides and posters during the meeting, but only the one page summaries are available on the home page. Apparently some kind of successor to ALPHA will be announced around September 2019. https://a...