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General Fusion has completed the assembly of the LM26 device. The status of the project and the plans for it are described in this detailed and long post at https://generalfusion.com/post/building ... -complete/.

It is interesting to note that CFS will finance the ARC site by itself. For this they will need to raise a lot of new capital of course. Here are the links to the CFS press release and the blog post about the ARC site announcement: https://www.cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-systems-to...

CFS has developed a second type of new superconducting magnets for their needs:: Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ second breakthrough superconducting technology handles mammoth pulses of power https://www.cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-systems-second-breakthrough-superconducting-technolog...

A new fusion company has revealed their plans and concept. Pacific Fusion has raised 900 MUSD in their first funding round. Their concept is based on a pulsed magnetic path to inertial fusion. See the links below for more information. We build on established science. In 2022, breakthroughs in inerti...

General Fusion has announced that: The fusion vessel for LM26 is here! A core component of our groundbreaking fusion demonstration machine, it houses the lithium liner that will compress plasmas to transformative technical milestones for fusion energy—1 keV, 10 keV, and ultimately scientific breakev...

Tokamak Eenergy has issued a press release where these details of their pilot plant are repeated. The size is indeed big and the magnetic field lower than expected for HTS. Also the electrical power output is low compared to what one would expect, so the plan seems a bit odd without the motivations ...

CFS has announced the following: This month, CFS received a broad-scope radioactive materials license from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for our SPARC fusion machine. By showing we’ve equipped ourselves with the people and procedures to safely handle and store these materials, we’ve taken a big ...

Strange that the Century project news page was closed? This abstract tells where Zap Energy was at least when it was written: The sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch fusion concept, developed at the University of Washington with LLNL collaborators, is now on a path to commercialization at Zap Ener...

Zap Energy has published the details of their project Century, which has been taken into operation. Century's goal is to integrate and test three major aspects of Zap’s power design: repetitive pulsed power supplies, plasma-facing circulating liquid metal walls, and technology for mitigating electro...

Helion Energy has published a new blog post Securing U.S. fusion leadership - the race for deployment at scale by Jackie Siebens, Director of Public Affairs at https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/securing-u-s-fusion-leadership-the-race-for-deployment-at-scale/ . Hopefully the important message get...

General Fusion has issued a new press release: New third-party analyses support General Fusion’s MTF technology path to commercialization , which is worth reading: To assess General Fusion’s TBR, the UKAEA conducted modelling with simplified spherical parameters representative of the company’s comme...

Any serious fusion endeavour will require large funding over a long time span. Having a stable funding is an important part of enabling long term planning for different milestones and scaling up towards fusion energy production. I have a hard time seeing that large and long term funding could be rai...

Thanks, the link is corrected.

These two 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics abstracts describe a bit Zap Energys Project Century. With Project Century Zap Energy is able to run three different independent SFS pinch devices in parallel: TP12.00112 : Zap Energy Scientific and Engineering Platform Development ...

The abstracts of the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics taking place October 7–11, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia are available at http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP24/.