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Canada-based General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works.
Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan).
ITER , the world’s largest international scientific collaboration, is beginning assembly of the fusion reactor tokamak that will include 12 different essential hardware systems provided by US ITER, which is managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The US Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Science’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program. In MTF, a magnetized plasma target formed into a liquid metal flux conserver (liner) is rapidly compressed to fusion conditions.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $46 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002809 ) to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants. This funding is from the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA). Austin, TX).
Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. The smaller size will allow us to design, build and test the CFR in less than a year.
The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.
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Visteon Corporation has been awarded the first production program for its Fusion connected platform by a leading European-based vehicle manufacturer. Fusion: Integrates multiple systems (e.g. Using a single next generation chip (Visteon design collaboration), can incorporate 16 unique processors.
Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program from any automaker to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 In North America, 100% of the seat fabric in Fusion Hybrid contains recycled material. million yards of fabric annually.
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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, and General Fusion have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pursue a series of joint projects to accelerate the deployment of commercial fusion power in Canada.
the design of a new generation road-capable flying car; high-voltage supercharging technology; and robotic innovations, forming the key components of the company’s smart mobility ecosystem. will deliver deep information fusion in a 3D drivable space. and XPILOT 4.0; In 1H 2022, XPeng will be rolling out XPILOT 3.5,
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The dream of fusion power inched closer to reality in December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that a fusion reaction had produced more energy than what was required to kick-start it. It showed there’s nothing fundamentally limiting us from being able to harness fusion in the laboratory.”
Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year. Seattle-based.
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