ICF contenders

[crowberry]

The article The commercial drive for laser fusion power by David Kramer in Physics Today discusses laser fusion and a few recent ICF contenders: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/1 ... 020a/full/. The significant hurdles of laser fusion are well known, so it is a bit surprising that so much funding has been granted in a rather short time.

Of course the recent result from NIF will inspire this line of approach to fusion and have some influence on the funding. NIF will try to reproduce the good performance shot and also to further improve on it. So there will be interesting results in the near future from NIF.

In addition to the HB11 company the article also discusses:
Marvel Fusion https://marvelfusion.com/
Focused Energy https://focused-energy.world/
Innoven Energy https://innoven-energy.com/

[Skipjack]

I think there is also Avalanche fusion.

[Carl White]

Marvel Fusion seems to have found significant backing.

European industrial giants join nuclear fusion race

Siemens Energy, Thales and Trumpf to ‘jointly develop’ promising technology with German start-up Marvel Fusion

https://www.ft.com/content/b13261a6-a44 ... ed1ac649a0

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https://phys.org/news/2022-08-papers-hi ... yield.html

News from the folks at NIF.