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General Fusion has good and bad news. The good news is that the first LM26 plasma compression shot went OK. On April 29th, we achieved a transformative milestone at our Vancouver, B.C., headquarters in Canada—we successfully compressed a large-scale magnetized plasma with lithium using our world-fir...

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Helion has given an IAEA talk here: https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/fusionpo ... inars.aspx. The presentation gives the current status of the Polaris activities and shows nice pictures of their previous experiments.

Here is a ZAP Energy presentation from last year which has some new details at least for me: Fusion Energy on the Horizon, https://apec-conf.org/wp-content/upload ... orizon.pdf.

GF has a nice summary of their latest achievements now that they will try to start compressing plasmas with LM26: All systems go! LM26 ready to compress plasmas, https://generalfusion.com/post/all-syst ... s-plasmas/.

Yes, it is nice to see that their hard work is starting to pay off.

They haven’t started compressing the plasmas yet, just injecting them into the LM-26 chamber. FYI, LM-26 has a lithium shell which will collapse by using massive current flow to the external coils. The spheromack topology FRC plasma is supposed to adiabatically collapse (GM has proven in tests), th...

General Fusion has created the first plasma in LM26 and they are by now forming plasmas daily in LM26.

https://generalfusion.com/post/general- ... n-machine/

Has there been any change made today? The site has been back to normal performance at least for a short while.

I get also the blank page after each post. It would be great if that could be fixed.

Helion Energy has announced the following very interesting piece of news: We now have more than 2 grams (20,000 Ci) of tritium onsite in Ursa, enabling D-T operations in Polaris. Polaris will operate with three fuel mixtures – D-D, D-T, and D-He-3 – each with distinct testing benefits. As Polaris pr...

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baking wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:45 pm

While checking to see if there was some other more recent paper, I noticed that Helion has a bunch of new patents in the last year that might be interesting.

Thanks baking! There is quite a few Helion patent papers from last year to have a look on.

There has been some coverage of this project in national swedish media recently. Some details have been presented in a radio interview. It is in swedish so there is no use posting a link. Anyway: They aim for a variety of sizes with the smaller ones using HTS magnets and D-T fuel cycle. The largest...

It is very nice to see Polaris starting operation. Looking forward to more news and hopefully good results during 2025.

General Fusion has completed the assembly of the LM26 device. The status of the project and the plans for it are described in this detailed and long post at https://generalfusion.com/post/building ... -complete/.