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The Energy Subcommittee of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a hearing on the U.S. fusion program on Wednesday, April 20 at 10 am in room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. Scheduled witnesses are ITER Director-Ge...

Fusion Power Associates has a review of Chens book at http://aries.pppl.gov/FPA/fpn16-10.shtml.

Skipjack wrote:2013 Independent Review of EMC2 Polywell acquired through FOIA, looking really good:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/04/2013-i ... .html#more

Very nice work by Brian Wang to get those two EMC2 reviews published.

There is a new Polywell patent publication by Joel Rogers FUSION ENERGY DEVICE WITH INTERNAL ION SOURCE at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20160093406.pdf (53 pages). Abstract: An improved fusion reactor design with provision for supplying plasma fuel inside a model reactor without consuming additi...

Amazing that Canada can support small scale fusion, but we can't. Pitiful. That is not quite true. Last year there was the ARPA-E Alpha funding http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5556 . The US support for fusion is much larger in total than that of Canada, which should not be forgo...

General Fusion Awarded $12.75 Million From Sustainable Development Technology Canada BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 4, 2016) - Innovative cleantech company General Fusion has been awarded $12.75 million by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to continue developing its ...

but GF seems to have learned some tricks with smoothing the vortex surface. In Sim world. Until they do real work with real plasma, it is all speculation on their part. I was referring to page 6 of the EPR 2016 slideset, which shows a water vortex with and without surface waves. So they are not onl...

The interesting thing to see is whether the magnetic field will help or not during the compression. The targeted initial field of 7 T is already quite strong compared to ordinary tokamaks and a peak field of 670 T would be very strong indeed. Of course there is the all the issues with the initial co...

The General Fusion presentation at EPR 2016 is available with a good overview of where they are currently. Acoustically driven Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion Author: Michel Laberge Abstract Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) involves compressing an initial magnetically confined plasma of abo...

What’s the Big Idea? A venture capitalist takes on fusion energy by Ray Rothrock is an interesting article on Tri Alpha Energy published in Issues in Science and Technology at http://issues.org/32-2/whats-the-big-idea/.

Assessment of the Effects of Azimuthal Mode Number Perturbations upon the Implosion Processes of Fluids in Cylinders by Michael Lindstrom is a paper on arxiv reporting on results on simplified modelling of the General Fusion reactor. Fluid instabilities arise in a variety of contexts and are often ...

The press release after the first hydrogen plasma event in Wendelstein 7-X can be read here http://www.mpg.de/9926419/wendelstein7x-start . The present initial experimentation phase will last until mid-March. The plasma vessel will then be opened in order to install carbon tiles for protecting the v...

What is Fusion One http://www.fusionone.co/ ? Will the $30 M Polywell research be done by Fusion One or is it unrelated to EMC2?

The first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016 will mark the start of scientific operation of Wendelstein 7-X. 

You may care to pursue the event per livestream on 3 February 2016 at 2.45 p.m.:

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/livestream_e_16

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/4010488/livestream_16

The textbook Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion by Francis F. Chen has been published in its 3rd edition. For the third edition, two new chapters have been added to incorporate discussion of more recent advances in the field. The new chapter 9 on Special Plasmas covers non-neutral ...