Magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) describes a class of fusion power devices that combine aspects of magnetic confinement fusion and inertial confinement fusion...
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a suggestion by Stanislaw Ulam in 1947. Newer designs using inertial confinement fusion have been the baseline for most later designs, including Project...
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example of the broader magneto-inertial fusion approach, which attempts to compress a pre-heated plasma. The goal is to produce fusion conditions without...
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Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a fusion energy process that initiates nuclear fusion reactions by compressing and heating targets filled with fuel...
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compresses the fusion fuel, while the second ignites it. As of 2019[update] this technique had lost favor for energy production. Magneto-inertial fusion or Magnetized...
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retention will let MTF operate, yet be easier to build. The term magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is similar, but encompasses a wider variety of arrangements...
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these devices have applications in magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), magneto-inertial fusion (MIF), high energy density physics research (HEDP), laboratory...
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Helion Energy (category Fusion power companies)
American fusion research company, located in Everett, Washington. They are developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce helium-3 and fusion power...
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company General Fusion began proof-of-concept experiments based on a hybrid magneto-inertial approach called Magnetized Target Fusion. Investors included...
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surpassed before it would be feasible. Direct Fusion Drive – Conceptual rocket engine MSNW Magneto-Inertial Fusion Driven Rocket Helium-3 Nuclear propulsion...
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Inertial Fusion Energy is a proposed approach to building a nuclear fusion power plant based on performing inertial confinement fusion at industrial scale...
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Commercial Fusion is a term used to refer to privately owned companies whose aim is to sell electricity produced by nuclear fusion. The industry now consists...
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Laser Inertial (NIF) - direct drive Inertial confinement fusion - indirect drive Inertial confinement fusion - Fast Ignition Heavy ion fusion (HIF, HIFAR...
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Macron (physics) (category Fusion power)
low-cost fusion power. Kirtley, David; Slough, John (2010). "Macron Formed Liner as a Practical Method for Enabling Magneto-Inertial Fusion". Journal...
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LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013. LIFE aimed...
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Magnetohydrodynamics (redirect from Magneto-hydrodynamic)
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also called magneto-fluid dynamics or hydromagnetics) is a model of electrically conducting fluids that treats all interpenetrating...
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is an American fusion power company founded in 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts after a spin-out from the Massachusetts...
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Polywell (redirect from Polywell Fusion Reactor)
paper entitled "Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device" presented a theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic...
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Frank Braun (section Fusion technology research)
Frank Braun. Retrieved March 17, 2021. "Business Advisory Board". Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. (MIFTI). 2010. Archived from the original on...
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Thermonuclear Assembly, was a major experiment in the early history of fusion power research. Based on the pinch plasma confinement technique, and built...
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Pinch (plasma physics) (redirect from Pinch (magnetic fusion))
Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) – A Z-pinch of preheated, premagnetized fuel inside a metal liner, which could lead to ignition and practical fusion energy...
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The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility, also known as IFMIF, is a projected material testing facility in which candidate materials for...
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Toroidal solenoid (category Magnetic confinement fusion devices)
The toroidal solenoid was an early 1946 design for a fusion power device designed by George Paget Thomson and Moses Blackman of Imperial College London...
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Theta pinch (category Magnetic confinement fusion)
Theta-pinch, or θ-pinch, is a type of fusion power reactor design. The name refers to the configuration of currents used to confine the plasma fuel in...
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reserved for the war effort, so the all-steel wheel tractors came with a magneto ignition system instead of a battery and had to be started with a hand-crank...
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confinement fusion, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (1980) John H. Nuckolls introduced the inertial confinement approach to fusion, James Clerk...
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Diffusion Inhibitor (category Fusion power)
The Diffusion Inhibitor is the first known attempt to build a working fusion power device. It was designed and built at the National Advisory Committee...
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the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics for "fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics"...
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all observers in inertial motion are equally privileged, and no preferred state of motion can be attributed to any particular inertial observer. However...
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follows: 1. The laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames. 2. In any given inertial frame, the velocity of light c is the same whether the...
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