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General Fusion describes their latest activities here: https://generalfusion.com/2019/06/slic-forming-plasmas-inside-molten-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...

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-fiel...

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...

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...

General Fusion will participate in the 2019 CAP Congress, June 3 – 7, 2019 at the Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC) https://www.cap.ca/congress-conference/congress-2019/ with four contributions: Dr Michel Laberge, General Fusion's Approach to Magnetized Target Fusion https://indico.cern.ch/event...

The First International Conference on Innovative Fusion Approaches (ICIFA) will be held on May 26-28, 2019 in Xi'an, China. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers in the innovative fusion space to discuss the latest developments and achievements. The topics include Magnetic-inert...

I wonder what the relative difficulty/cost of getting fusion neutrons from a Z-pinch machine is compared to getting them from a Hirsch-Farnsworth fusor. Is there any other confinement concept for which the barrier to entry is as low (or nearly so) as the fusor? (An accelerator, perhaps, but that's ...

This documents reports on an ARPA-E sponsored JASON assessment of the “Prospects for Low Cost Fusion Development.” Specifically, the question is whether magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is a promising approach toward achieving controlled thermonuclear fusion at dramatically lower costs than other appr...

Transient coaxial helical injection (CHI) allows a tokamak to be started without a central solenoid. This seems to be rather interesting and promising.
https://www.pppl.gov/news/2019/04/ready-set-go-scientists-evaluate-novel-technique-firing-fuel-feeds-fusion-reactions