List of fusion power technologies

The following is a list of fusion power technologies that have been practically attempted:

Pioneers

• 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

• 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 (RFX-Mod Italy)
• Spherical tokamak (MAST)
• Spheromak (SSPX Lawrence Livermore)
• Stellarator (Wendelstein W 7-X)

• Non-neutral plasma (Columbia Non-neutral Torus)^[1]
• Compact (NCSX Princeton [cancelled])

• Tandem Mirror (Gamma-10 Japan)

Inertial

• Laser Inertial (NIF)
• Heavy Ion fusion (HIFAR Lawrence Berkeley)
• Wire array Z-pinch (Z-machine, Sandia)

Z-Pinch

• Pulsed z-pinch (Saturn, Sandia)
• Staged Z-pinch (MIFTI)
• High density Z-pinch (MAGPIE Imperial College)
• Inverse Z-pinch

Inertial Electrostatic Confinement

• 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)

Other/Combinatorial

• Flow Pinch (ZAP, Uni Washington)
• 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)
• Multi-beam accelerator (MIGMA)
• Piezo/Lithium tantalate (UCLA, Putterman)
• Sonofusion (ORNL, Taleyarkhan)
• LENR/electrolysis cell
• Muon-catalyzed fusion (Berkeley, Alvarez)
• Dense Plasma Focus (Focus fusion, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Lerner)
• Rotating lithium wall (RWE, Maryland)

References

See also

• Magnetized target fusion technology description by General Fusion
• Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc(MIFTI)
• Inertial Confinement Fusion at NIF - How ICF Works
• Focus Fusion Home Page
• EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation