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The last update I'm aware of is from the Fusion Power Associates 2023 meeting in last December: On the Path to a Pilot Plant:Michl Binderbauer, TAE Technologies http://firefusionpower.org/FPA23_Binderbauer_TAE.pdf.

Zap Energy has published a new paper on arXiv on the 18th of January 2024. This work was apparently earlier presented at the IAEA FEC 2023. They are validating their simulations against their experiments to be able to trust the simulations to be used for improving performance in their devices. The F...

Fusion is a very hard nut to crack. At this stage any of the different fusion concepts might still face unexpected difficulties. But until someone really gets there for sure we cannot really know who it will be in advance. Both Zap Energy and Helion Energy currently have funding so they can develop ...

Before JET was shut down for good a new record of 69 MJ of fusion energy was made at the end of 2023.This is 10 MJ more than in 2021. https://ukaea.canto.global/v/JETWorldRe ... &from=list.

General Fusion has written in detail on the status and plans for LM26 at https://generalfusion.com/post/innovati ... ft-launch/.

Zap Energy has published a new paper, Progress on Multielement Spectroscopic Temperature and Impurity Studies on a High Flow Velocity Z-Pinch , A. W. Klemmer, S. Fuelling, B. S. Bauer, G. A. Wurden, A. S. Taylor, D. A. Sutherland, Aaron Hossack, U. Shumlak, B. Levitt, B. A. Nelson, M. Quinley, T. R....

The presentations from the Fusion Power Associates 44th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Pilot Plants for Fusion Power
December 19-20, 2023, Washington DC have been published at http://firefusionpower.org/fpa_annual_meet.html.

I guess they also have a lot to learn on how to optimize the running of their device(s) and to optimize also the power supplies in order to increase the pinch current. It will be interesting to follow their developemens in 2024.

The 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023)‎ will take place October 16 – 21, 2023 in London, UK. The abstracts of the contributions are available at: https://conferences.iaea.org/event/316/contributions/.

The abstracts for the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics taking place October 30 - November 3 2023 in Denver, Colorado are available at http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP23/.

OK, thanks Skipjack!

Skipjack wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:47 am

Yeah, I was only mentioning those that are less than 2 years away (potentially!). CFS, GF and TAE will be longer. CFS Q>1 attempt has shifted to the right to 2026 as well.

Skipjack, I did not know that the SPARC Q>1 target year has moved to 2026. Where did you see that?

My guess and speculation is that the fancy architecture of the Fusion Demonstration Plant became too expensive as a next step in terms of the available funding for General Fusion, so LM26 was created to target a bit scaled down results with less money required. This plan has clearly been welcomed by...

CFS is aiming for 2025 with the SPARC and General Fusion today issued a press release aiming for 2026 with their Lawson Machine 26 (LM26). Tokamak Energy and TAE Technologies also have detailed plans. The next step after achieving scientific breakeven is to do that repeatedly and reliably, which req...

From David Kirtley's talk at SOFE. darn the capacitor banks are huge compared to the fusion core. From what I understand from what David told me, the banks get smaller with higher pulse rates, but I am not sure how all of this fits together with the Microsoft plant. HelionSOFE01b.jpg Some spin- off...