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Here is a news article from Forbes by Gemma Milne on the First Light Fusion status: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gemmamilne ... 24721129f8.

In July there was a meeting called the Roadmap to the Fusion Energy Economy in New York. The agenda for this meeting is listed here:
https://indico.flatironinstitute.org/ev ... w=standard. Unfortunately there are no slides published from that meeting.

There is a new initiative on spherical tokamaks in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/next-step-in-fusion.

NSTX-U will be repaired with tighter tolerances to improve the performance:
https://www.pppl.gov/news/2019/08/impro ... ower-earth

TAE Technology has been granted also for 2019 computer time through the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) programme: The Department of Energy (DOE) has fueled TAE Technologies' quest in with awards of computer time through the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Co...

General Fusion describes their latest activities here: https://generalfusion.com/2019/06/slic- ... n-lithium/.

This is the General Atomics press release: http://ga.publishpath.com/recent-breakthrough-on-diii-d-enables-major-step-toward-economical-fusion-energy and this is their corresponding (paywalled) paper in Nuclear Fusion: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab235b . This looks indeed a...

The purpose of this workshop is to address the following questions to help inform and frame the proposed new program: What are the most compelling examples of transformative and off-roadmap R&D opportunities to enable commercially viable fusion energy, especially in two key areas: Advancing the per...

A new public-private funding initiative INFUSE - Innovation Network for Fusion Energy has been launched with this website https://infuse.ornl.gov/ . More details on this can be found in this presentation https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3423370/attachments/1855367/3047193/INFUSE_Int...

Whytes talk is now available on the conference site: https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3315374/attachments/1855772/3048091/SPARC_SOFE_2019_Whyte.pdf CFS has more than 100 people working now and 70 of them are working on the HTS magnets. The HTS magnet development project is scheduled...

General Fusion will participate in the 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA with a poster contribution: Kelly Epp, Formation of a Spherical Tokamak Plasma for Compression in a Liquid Metal...

Dennis Youchison, Private/Public Partnerships in Fusion Energy Research, 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA The U.S. DOE is providing opportunities for collaborative research between pr...

D.G. Whyte (MIT), SPARC and the high-field approach to fusion energy, 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, 1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082 USA The SPARC tokamak and accompanying R&D program is based around the high-field ap...

ARPA-E is seeking information from diverse R&D communities, from both within and especially outside the fusion R&D community, about technological solutions and innovations that can enable commercially viable fusion power plants. While it is impossible to predict precisely what is needed for fusion ...

Michl Binderbauer will talk at SOFE 2019 on Development of fusion technologies and their application at TAE https://indico.cern.ch/event/749923/contributions/3306748/ . 28th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, 2 – 6 June, 2019, Sawgrass Marriott Resort,1000 PGA Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, F...