Fusion News - 19th June 2020

A summary of recent fusion energy news stories presented by Dr Melanie Windridge, UK Director of the Fusion Industry Association. Links to all the articles mentioned are below for further reading.


Fusion news stories discussed:

1. Why cracking nuclear fusion will depend on artificial intelligence


2. A new way to study how elements mix deep inside giant planets

3. Congress boosts inertial-confinement fusion budget


4. These Tiny Neutron Generators Could Pave the Way for Fusion

Bonuses:
How the US lost it’s way on innovation

A brief history of nuclear fusion
The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy

[hallahgray]

I wonder with some of the disciplines used in Hydro engineering be useful in controlling the plasma in a TokaMac reactor. Such as controlling the vertices of energetic plasma.

[swrevolvershooter]

i am a bit confused. 3:27 by 'ignite' do u mean 'reaching stable net positive' ? or just achieve confirmation of a formed fusion that breaks in seconds.

[numatechprototypes]

Or you could just stop focusing on stretching the plasma out into a donut. go with a different configuration of magnetic and inertial confinement combined a hybrid system like the VFR that I have designed would be nice if I could get a job somewhere in this field