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This is another nice fusion research funding initiative: Department of Energy Announces $50 Million for Fusion Energy R&D
https://www.energy.gov/articles/departm ... -energy-rd

Here is a recent paper by General Fusion: Stable compression of a spherical tokamak plasma Abstract An analysis of toroidal plasma compression by a collapsing flux conserver reveals linearly stable scenarios of operation to high compression ratios. The resistive and ideal MHD stability is calculated...

Department of Energy Announces $32 Million for Lower-Cost Fusion Concepts:
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/ ... n-concepts
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default ... .24.20.pdf

Hello Joe! Many thanks Joe for bringing the site back up again! It has indeed been a long time since the problem started and much has happened since then. I look very much forward to be able to share and learn about the progress in fusion during the past months on Talk-Polywell. It is great to have ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette has issued the Department of Energy's (DOE's) second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. The Phase I Release 2 FOA, with ap...

16 Dec General Fusion Closes $65M of Series E Financing Posted at 04:13h in Featured, Most Recent, Press Releases Share Funding Enables the Company’s Fusion Demonstration Plant VANCOUVER, Canada – General Fusion announced that it has successfully closed USD$65 million of Series E equity financing. ...

The 2019 INFUSE awards have been announced. A listing can be found at

https://infuse.ornl.gov/2019-infuse-awards-2/

Department of Energy Announces $30 Million for Fusion Energy R&D November 7, 2019 The U.S. Department of Energy today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy (BETHE). BETHE project...

It's nice to see that ARPA-E plans to continue fusion funding:
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/#FoaIdca4 ... 3e2b53efb7

Michel Laberge gave a presentation at the Schulich Leader Scholarships event and the talk is available on Youtube. Most of the video is actually introduction and questions at the end. Laberge mentions in his very popular and general presentation that they are still working on raising the funding for...

TAE Technologies has published a new paper: Formation of Hot, Stable, Long-Lived Field-Reversed Configuration Plasmas on the C-2W Device https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48250.pdf , Nucl. Fusion 59 (2019) 112009 (16pp). They have also published two new patent applications: Systems and methods for ...

The abstracts for the 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, taking place on October 21–25, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida are available at: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP19/Content/3779 .

General Fusion has been rather quiet lately, but here is a 1/10 scale model of their full sized reactor:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEIvQWOXoAU6euR.jpg

Tokamak Energy exceeds target of 20 tesla with HTS Magnets The last 12 months have seen very rapid developments in magnet technology at Tokamak Energy. The HTS programme of developing tokamak magnets from high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials runs alongside our ST40 programme and is an i...

Enabling Timely and Commercially Viable Fusion Energy August 13, 2019 to August 14, 2019 Building on the ARPA-E ALPHA program and synergies with the Fusion Industry Association and the National Academies recommendation, ARPA-E is exploring opportunities for a potential new fusion program that is br...