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    Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is an ongoing fusion power experiment being carried out on the Z Pulsed Power Facility (Z machine) at Sandia...
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  • driver or "liner." The concept is also known as magnetized target fusion (MTF) and magnitnoye obzhatiye (MAGO) in Russia. Magneto-inertial fusion approaches...
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    or Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion: This combines a laser pulse with a magnetic pinch. The pinch community refers to it as magnetized liner inertial fusion...
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  • Magnetized target fusion (MTF) is a fusion power concept that combines features of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF)...
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    DIII-D W7X TCV MAST-U HL-2M RFX MST ISKRA-5 U-2M Gas torus Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion Peacock, N. J.; Robinson, D. C.; Forrest, M. J.; Wilcock, P...
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    National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
    1 centimetre (0.39 in) long targets relevant to high-gain magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF). In order to investigate key aspects of the propagation...
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    Z Pulsed Power Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion)
    primarily been used as an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research facility, including the magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) approach, and for...
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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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  • magnetic confinement fusion for disruption mitigation and tokamak refueling. Magneto-inertial fusion seeks to implode a magnetized D-T fusion target using a...
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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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  • 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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    orbit condense together. Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) – A Z-pinch of preheated, premagnetized fuel inside a metal liner, which could lead to...
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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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    Theta pinch (category Magnetic confinement fusion)
    theta-pinch is often seen in magnetized target fusion systems, but these also differ significantly from the original concept. Nuclear fusion occurs when nuclei...
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  • Intermediate-Current Stability Experiment (category Magnetic confinement fusion devices)
    a fusion power device designed in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. It was to have been built at the newly opened AEA Culham center for fusion research...
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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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    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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  • 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 CTBT. Fusion testing: inertial confinement fusion experiments using lasers, like the National Ignition Facility, or magnetized liners, like the Z...
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