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The following is a
list of fusion power technologies
that have been practically attempted:
Pioneers
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edit
]
Beam-target
(Oliphant, 1934)
Convergent shock-waves (Huemul, Argentina)
Magneto-electrostatic toroid trap (ATOLL, Artsimovich)
Tokamak
(T-1 to 10, Kurchatov Institute,
JET
,
ITER is under construction
, and
many more
)
Toroidal
z-pinch
(ZETA)
Magnetic
[
edit
]
Accelerated
FRC
(
TCS-U
)
Bumpy torus
(ELMO, EBT, ORNL)
Galatea (Tornado)
Magnetic suspension (
Levitron
)
High beta tokamak
(HBT-EP)
Levitated dipole
Odd-parity RMF
Reversed field pinch
(
MST
,
RFX-Mod
Italy)
Spherical tokamak
(MAST,
NSTX
)
Spheromak
(SSPX Lawrence Livermore)
Stellarator
(
Wendelstein 7-X
)
Non-neutral plasma
(Columbia Non-neutral Torus)
[1]
Compact (NCSX Princeton [cancelled])
Tandem Mirror
(Gamma-10 Japan)
Inertial
[
edit
]
Laser Inertial (NIF)
- direct drive
Inertial confinement fusion - indirect drive
Inertial confinement fusion - Fast Ignition
Heavy ion fusion
(HIF, HIFAR Lawrence Berkeley)
MAGLIF
: Combination pinch and laser ICF
Z-Pinch
[
edit
]
Pulsed z-pinch (Saturn, Sandia)
High density Z-pinch (MAGPIE Imperial College)
Inverse Z-pinch
Shear Flow Stabilized (
Zap Energy
)
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement
[
edit
]
Fusor
(
Fusor
,
Farnsworth
)
IEC
(Fusor, Hirsch-Meeks)
IEC with Periodically Oscillating Plasma Sphere (POPS, LANL)
IEC with plasma electrode (PoF, Sanns)
IEC with beam/spherical capacitor (STAR, Sesselmann)
Polywell
(Fusor and
Magnetic mirror
hybrid)
IEC with
Penning trap
(Penning Fusion Experiment - PFX, LANL)
F1 (electrostatic and magnetic cusp hybrid -
Fusion One
)
Other/Combinatorial
[
edit
]
CT Accel (CTIX, UC Davis)
Magneto-kinetic (PHDX, Plasma Dynamic Lab)
Magnetized target (AFRL, LANL)
Magneto-inertial
(OMEGA laser, LLE, Rochester)
Levitated dipole [superconducting] (LDX, MIT, PSGC)
Maryland Centrifugal (MCX)
Sheared magnetofluid/Bernoulli confinement (MBX, Uni Texas)
Penning fusion (PFX, LANL)
Plasma jets (HyperV, Chantilly)
Magnetized target fusion
with mechanical compression (
General Fusion
, Burnaby)
Field-reversed colliding beams (Tri-Alpha)
Muon-catalyzed fusion
(Berkeley, Alvarez)
Dense Plasma Focus
(
Focus fusion
, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Lerner)
Rotating lithium wall (RWE, Maryland)
References
[
edit
]
^
"CNT"
.
www.apam.columbia.edu
. Archived from
the original
on 11 October 2003
. Retrieved
22 May
2022
.
See also
[
edit
]
Fusion One Corporation
Magnetized target fusion technology description by General Fusion
Archived
2009-02-09 at the
Wayback Machine
Inertial Confinement Fusion at NIF - How ICF Works
Archived
2010-05-27 at the
Wayback Machine
Focus Fusion
EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation
Archived
2009-03-29 at the
Wayback Machine
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