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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/

I think it is a good thing that spin off technologies from fusion can start to generate revenue to help directly the fusion development and also indirectly by increasing the chances of new investements.

No one seems to be announcing demonstration machine build funding reached, and project initiation. Either investor cash has died of China Virus or performance targets have failed to have been reached. Smells like Fusion is in need of a China Virus ventilator and cure. General Fusion is raising the ...

There has not been much news from Helion Energy lately. Here is their job ad which tells a bit about what they are up to: Bo Cole Helion Energy | Talent Acquisition | Process Lover | Data Seeker | Relationship Builder Helion Energy is building the world’s first clean, safe, fusion energy generator t...

General Fusion has published two articles on arXiv:

First results from plasma edge biasing on SPECTOR
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07463

Magnetic Levitation and Compression of Compact Tori
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10307

Tokamak Energy has been awarded £10m government funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”), as part of the UK Government’s Advanced Modular Reactor project. https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/tokamak-energy-awarded-10m-funding-from-the-department-for-business-ener...

Amy Sprague has written on June 1, 2020 the article A leading fusion expert retires from the UW which is about Tom Jarboe.
https://www.aa.washington.edu/news/arti ... retires-uw