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    The Mirror Fusion Test Facility, or MFTF, was an experimental magnetic confinement fusion device built using the tandem magnetic mirror design. It was...
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  • Baseball II, the Tandem Mirror Experiment and upgrade, the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, and MFTF-B. These machines were built and tested at LLNL from the late...
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    solved, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory began the design of the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF) based on these concepts. The machine was completed in...
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    "tandem mirror" design, which became the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). Having never tried this layout before, a smaller machine, the Tandem Mirror Experiment...
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    from fusion ignition and the implications for fusion energy science and engineering" (PDF). Karpenko, V. N. (September 1983). "The Mirror Fusion Test Facility:...
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    validated the tandem mirror approach. Plans began to build a much larger machine based on the same principles, the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). MFTF was...
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  • requirements, funding, and strategic direction. Examples include the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, which was constructed but never turned on; the Superconducting...
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    Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. In a fusion process, two...
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    including the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF) and the Tandem Mirror Facility. After 1987, Post was senior scientist in the magnetic fusion energy program...
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  • This timeline of nuclear fusion is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion. 1920 Based on F.W. Aston's...
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    test series to test principles that led to the development of thermonuclear weapons. Sufficient fission was achieved to boost the associated fusion device...
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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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    majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device. While fusion bomb detonations were loosely considered...
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    The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
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    Experiments directed toward developing fusion power are invariably done with dedicated machines which can be classified according to the principles they...
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    ITER (category Magnetic confinement fusion devices)
    enough fusion to produce 10 times as much thermal output power as thermal power absorbed by the plasma for short time periods; to demonstrate and test technologies...
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  • KMS Fusion was the first private company to attempt to produce a fusion reactor using the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach. The basic concept...
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    fusion Component Test Facility (CTF). A CTF would test reactor systems for DEMO, and a spherical tokamak is seen as an ideal design for the facility;...
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    Castle Bravo (redirect from Bravo test)
    Castle Bravo was the first test by the United States of a practical deliverable fusion bomb, even though the TX-21 as proof-tested in the Bravo event was...
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    Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak fusion)
    experimental thermonuclear facility for research and testing of materials under energy load conditions close to ITER and future energy fusion reactors, Kazakhstan...
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  • interferometer Miroslav Žamboch Mirror Mirror Fusion Test Facility Mirror furnace Mirror matter Mirror photon Mirror symmetry (string theory) Misalignment...
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    reminiscent of other Department of Energy projects, such as the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, which was constructed but never used, and the Superconducting...
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  • compact fusion machine, the high beta fusion reactor, that may be related to the biconic cusp and the polywell, and working at β = 1. Magnetic mirror dominates...
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  • In October 2014, Lockheed Martin announced a plan to "build and test a compact fusion reactor in less than a year with a prototype to follow within five...
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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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    convert the laser-driven inertial confinement fusion concept being developed in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) into a practical commercial power plant...
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  • company applies nuclear fusion and advanced separation technologies across fields of critical need, including nondestructive testing, radiation hardening...
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  • "Pulsar Fusion's Green Hybrid Rocket Showcased in Switzerland". Manufacturing & Engineering. Retrieved 2022-08-23. "Nuclear fusion startup test fires plastic...
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  • first ICF facility in the world to demonstrate this (see plot). This breakthrough drove the US Department of Energy to create an Inertial Fusion Energy program...
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    Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which very little of the energy released is carried by neutrons. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions...
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