RICHMOND, British Columbia, Jan. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — General Fusion has released a new, peer-reviewed product that proves the company has achieved the key smooth, rapid and symmetrical compression of liquid cavities. Published scientific results. Design of a commercial magnetized target fusion power plant. The results, published in Fusion Engineering and Design, one of the leading scientific journals in the fusion field, validate the performance of General Fusion’s proprietary liquid compression technology for magnetized target fusion and is scalable to commercial machines. .
General Fusion’s magnetized target fusion technology uses mechanical compression of a plasma to achieve fusion conditions. A high-speed driver rapidly powers the precisely shaped symmetrical collapse of a liquid metal cavity enveloping the plasma. General Fusion commissioned him to prototype a liquid compression system over a three-year period, completing over 1,000 shots and validating the compression technology. Additionally, this scale model of General Fusion’s commercial compression system validated the company’s open source computational fluid dynamics simulations. This paper supports his General Fusion concept for commercial machine compression systems.
“General Fusion has proven successful in extending individual technologies and creating a path to integrating, deploying and commercializing practical fusion energy.” CEO Greg Tuniney said. “The publication of these results demonstrates that General Fusion has the scientific and engineering capabilities to advance our unique liquid compression system design to commercialization.”
General Fusion’s approach to compressing plasma to produce fusion energy is unique. The company’s magnetized target fusion technology is designed to address commercialization barriers that other fusion technologies still face. The innovation is a unique liquid metal liner inside the fusion vessel that is mechanically compressed by a powerful piston. This allows General Fusion to create fusion conditions in short pulses, rather than triggering a sustained reaction, while protecting the machine’s vessel, extracting heat, and repopulating fuel.
Currently, General Fusion is building a ground-breaking magnetized target fusion demonstration called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) at a Canadian laboratory. LM26 is designed to reach fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, reach scientific break-even by 2026, and deliver commercial fusion energy by the early to mid-2030s. Accelerate technological advances in general fusion feeding the power grid.
About General Fusion
General Fusion pursues a rapid and practical approach to commercial fusion energy and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada. The company was founded in 2002 and is funded by a global syndicate of leading energy venture capital firms, industry leaders and technology pioneers. For more information, please visit generalfusion.com.
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