• Colliding beam fusion (CBF), or colliding beam fusion reactor (CBFR), is a class of fusion power concepts that are based on two or more intersecting beams...
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  • Foothill Ranch, California developing aneutronic fusion power. The company's design relies on an advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC), which...
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    fused atoms using them. Colliding beam fusion: A beam of high energy particles fired at another beam or target can initiate fusion. This was used in the...
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    Neutron generator (category Nuclear fusion)
    possibility of these machines being used to produce net fusion power. A related concept, colliding beam fusion, attempts to address this issue by using two accelerators...
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    re-accelerated inward. Overall the physical process is similar to the colliding beam fusion, although beam devices are linear instead of spherical. Other IEC designs...
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  • Migma (category Fusion reactors)
    migmacell, was a proposed colliding beam fusion reactor designed by Bogdan Maglich in 1969. Migma uses self-intersecting beams of ions from small particle...
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    Field-reversed configuration (category Magnetic confinement fusion)
    Monkhorst, H. J. (1996-01-01). "Fusion reactors based on colliding beams in a field reversed configuration plasma". Fusion Technology. 30 (3): 1395–1402...
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  • Direct energy conversion (category Nuclear fusion)
    aneutronic fusion reactors, like Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) with the Dense Plasma Focus, and Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. with the Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor...
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    fuel-infused target, known as beam–target fusion, or by accelerating two streams of ions towards each other, beambeam fusion.[citation needed] The key problem...
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    Fusor (category Fusion reactors)
    174 million Kelvin, a typical magnetic confinement fusion plasma temperature. The problem with this colliding beam fusion approach, in general, is that the ions will...
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    Electron-beam welding (EBW) is a fusion welding process in which a beam of high-velocity electrons is applied to two materials to be joined. The workpieces...
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  • Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough". Science | AAAS. Retrieved February 23, 2020. Rostoker, N. (1997). "Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor"...
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  • non-radioactive aneutronic fusion energy source. Maglich built four models of Migma, devices producing fusion of deuterium atoms in colliding ion beams. Maglich received...
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    by CERN. It is a collider accelerator, which can accelerate two beams of protons to an energy of 6.5 TeV and cause them to collide head-on, creating...
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    smash into the plasma. The proton beam produces a tenfold increase of fusion because protons and boron nuclei collide directly. Earlier methods used a...
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  • capital investment. Pusch suggested using Bogdan Maglich's "migma" self-colliding beam concept to significantly increase the muon production efficiency, by...
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    Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak fusion)
    maintain fusion and produce net energy output, the bulk of the fuel must be raised to high temperatures so its atoms are constantly colliding at high speed;...
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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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    the beam–target interaction of IFMIF: A state of the art". Fusion Engineering and Design. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear...
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  • needed to achieve fusion. The project plans to replace the microwave emitters that heat the plasma in their prototypes with neutral beam injection, in which...
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  • Burnaby) Field-reversed colliding beams (Tri-Alpha) Muon-catalyzed fusion (Berkeley, Alvarez) Dense Plasma Focus (Focus fusion, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics...
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    makes use of a novel two-beam-acceleration scheme: a so-called Drive Beam runs parallel to the colliding Main Beam. The Drive Beam is decelerated in special...
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  • a fusion reactor using an electric and magnetic field to heat ions to fusion conditions. The design is related to the fusor, the high beta fusion reactor...
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  • Lattice confinement fusion (LCF) is a type of nuclear fusion in which deuteron-saturated metals are exposed to gamma radiation or ion beams avoiding the confined...
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  • in plasma diagnostics to analyze high-temperature controlled fusion plasmas. In fusion plasmas, the light elements tend to become fully ionized during...
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    ITER (category Magnetic confinement fusion devices)
    fusion as a viable and sustainable source of energy. [...] F4E also supports fusion research and development initiatives [...] The ITER Neutral Beam Test...
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    National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
    as laser beams and particle beams are used in non-weapon devices. The target is a small spherical pellet containing a few milligrams of fusion fuel, typically...
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    Beamline Compact Linear Collider Dielectric wall accelerator Duoplasmatron International Linear Collider Particle accelerator Particle beam SLAC National Accelerator...
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    were the first type of device used for experiments in controlled nuclear fusion power. Pinches occur naturally in electrical discharges such as lightning...
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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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