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Very interesting, they are going to give a spherical shape to the shock wave by delaying the hit time of the pistons. This will also reduce mechanical stress load on the structure. It looks like a smart idea, at least in theory. Yes, you are right about their intention to use a spherical shock wave...

Even for ITER the activities are a mixture of science and technology. TFTR, JET and JT60 showed for tokamaks that the step to Q>=1 is not large, but there still remains a lot of scientific questions to address concerning tritium breeding, disruptions, ELM;s divertors and so on in addition to all the...

General Fusion has posted a new video on this page: https://generalfusion.com/2021/03/using ... gy-future/. It seems that they have moved from a spherical geometry to a cylindrical geometry according to the 11 s long video on that page?

nTtauE.png The risk involved with the most advanced fusion projects has obviously decreased, but success is far from certain at this moment. The gain is so large that it is attractive to persons with deep pockets even if the risk of failure is still significant. This plot of the fusion triple produ...

Tokamak Energy and CFS have the advantage that they are working on tokamaks. It seems that they have been getting funding faster than their competitors with alternative concepts. The progress on HTS-magnets at TE is impressing and CFS is planning their magnet demonstration for this year. The radiati...

Here are some details on what General Fusion is planning to do: With shovels in the ground within the next two years, the design of the Demonstration Plant is expected to introduce the world to fusion power – a path forward to mitigating climate change by integrating Science and Nature. Donaldson ad...

Compact Fusion Systems https://www.compactfusionsystems.com/ is one of the members of the Fusion Industry Association. They are working on MTF also inspired by the LINUS concept like General Fusion, but they are trying to design something simpler and less expensive. Compact Fusion Systems, a Santa F...

Tokamak Energy has made impressive progress with their magnet technology as they are now licensing it to PSI: Tokamak Energy is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) for the use of Tokamak Energy’s proprietary non-in...

CFS has selected the site for SPARC and will start constructing in spring 2021. They plan to make their full scale magnet demonstration in June 2021:
https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commo ... re-site-in

HB11 has raised $4.8 millon:
https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/a ... raise.html

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...