La société General Fusion travaille actuellement à la conception d’un réacteur à fusion relativement petit et à faible coût; les travaux viennent d’atteindre la phase de validation. Le réacteur se compose d’une enceinte remplie de plomb en fusion tournée sur un axe en vue de créer une cavité pleine de plasma. Une onde de choc […]

General Fusion is currently working to develop a relatively small, low-cost fusion reactor; work has reached the proof-of-concept stage. The reactor consists of an enclosure filled with molten lead, spun about one axis to create a plasma-filled cavity. A mechanically-induced shock wave travels radially inwards, focusing as it propagates and collapses the plasma cavity. This […]

This project will help the industrial partner design tests to prove a concept for fusion energy production. In the tests, metal cylinders (and other shaped liners) are dynamically collapsed to compress a high temperature plasma to fusion conditions. This highly dynamic event, however, may result in some of the metal from the cylinder contaminating the […]