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General Fusion moved also when they were growing in number of persons. Tokamak Energy has now about 40 people in their team according to their web page. You can see from the picture of the surroundings of the ST40 that the space is already quite crowded. When you raise the temperature to fusion rele...

According to their latest video their next milestone is 100 million degrees, but they will move the ST40 to a larger building and upgrade it. We will see whether reaching the next milestone happens during this year or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbkUIWWmVg

Tokamak Energy has issued a press release stating that they have reached their milestone of creating a plasma with a temperature of 15 million degrees in the ST40 tokamak. Their next milestone is to create a plasma with a temperature of 100 million degrees. The plasma density would be interesting to...

Tokamak Energy has announced that their ST40 is now operational and that they are optimising its performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOKY41Q2_rU

Tokamak Energy has published a 1 min 38 s long time lapse video of preparing ST40 for hot plasma experiments. The video covers the period from the 12th of October 2017 to the 31st of January 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjzok6h2-xA

Audio recordings of the talks are available as mp3-files in connection with the abstracts. The slides of the talks are at least not yet available.

krenshala wrote:So, are these 7 years to "develop the device" part of the planned time for ITER development/construction, or is this in addition to it?

The DTT targets DEMO, so my understanding is that the schedule of DTT construction is independent of the ITER schedule.

The Divertor Tokamak Test facility (DTT) is a superconducting tokamak costing 500 M€ to be built in Frascati, Italy to develop divertor technology for DEMO. The construction is set to start in November 2018 and it will take seven years to complete the device. The tokamak is 10 m high and has a 5 m r...

The different worldwide DEMO activities are summarized in this FPA Fusion Program Note:
https://aries.pppl.gov/FPA/fpn18-21.shtml

The preliminary agenda of the 2018 annual meeting of the Fusion Power Associates has been published already by now. The meeting will be held during December 4-5 in Washington, DC.

https://aries.pppl.gov/FPA/fpn18-20.shtml

What kind of instrumentation do you have on your current device? What value of beta have you measured on your current device? What instrumentation are you planning to have on your next device? Have you published anything on your current device? Do you plan to publish results achieved with the next d...

It is great that Helion Energy has been able to collect 30 MUSD over the past three years. Having their team expanded to 24 persons sounds also good. But unless they really publish something solid there could be a risk that the cash flow dries up if they encounter unexpected problems with the machin...

The article is interesting with the claim that Helion Energy would have a break even capable device ready this year. Experiments with a new machine will take some time just to understand it and achieve previous results. It would be really nice to have a scientific paper from Helion Energy. If they h...

Here is another talk by Michl Binderbauer: On TAE’s Path to Fusion, A Private-Sector Perspective http://www.firefusionpower.org/NAS_Tri-Alpha_Binderbauer_022718.pdf.

EMC2 is part of this new Fusion Industry Alliance mentioned on the LPPFusion home page. The news article is rather scarce on details on this new alliance. Does anyone know something more about this?

https://lppfusion.com/new-fusion-industry-alliance-formed-lppfusion-joins/