List of fusion power technologies

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

## Contents

* 1 Pioneers
* 2 Magnetic
* 3 Inertial
* 4 Z-pinch
* 5 Inertial electrostatic confinement
* 6 Other, hybrids
* 7 References
* 8 See also

## 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 (MST, RFX-Mod Italy)
* Tokamak (Spherical tokamak (MAST, NSTX), Spheromak (Dynomak, SSPX Lawrence Livermore))
* Stellarator (Wendelstein 7-X)

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

* Tandem mirror (Gamma-10 Japan)

## Inertial

* Laser Inertial (NIF) \- direct drive
* Inertial confinement fusion - indirect drive
* Inertial confinement fusion - Fast Ignition
* Heavy ion fusion (HIF, HIFAR Lawrence Berkeley)
* MAGLIF: Combination pinch and laser ICF

## Z-pinch

* Z-pinch
* Pulsed z-pinch (Saturn, Sandia)
* High density Z-pinch (MAGPIE Imperial College)
* Inverse Z-pinch
* Shear flow stabilized (Zap Energy)

## 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)
* F1 (electrostatic and magnetic cusp hybrid - Fusion One)

## Other, hybrids

* 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)
* Muon-catalyzed fusion (Berkeley, Alvarez)
* Dense Plasma Focus (Focus fusion, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Lerner)
* Rotating lithium wall (RWE, Maryland)

## References

1. ↑ "CNT". http://www.apam.columbia.edu/CNT/.

## See also

* Fusion One Corporation
* Magnetized target fusion technology description by General Fusion
* Inertial Confinement Fusion at NIF - How ICF Works
* Focus Fusion
* EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation

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Fusion power, processes and devices

Core topics|

* Nuclear fusion
* Timeline
* List of experiments
* Nuclear power
* Nuclear reactor
* Atomic nucleus
* Fusion energy gain factor
* Lawson criterion
* Magnetohydrodynamics
* Neutron
* Plasma

Processes,
methods|

| Confinement
type|

| Gravitational|

* Alpha process
* Triple-alpha process
* CNO cycle
* Fusor
* Helium flash
* Nova
* remnants
* Proton-proton chain
* Carbon-burning
* Lithium burning
* Neon-burning
* Oxygen-burning
* Silicon-burning
* R-process
* S-process

|

Magnetic|

* Dense plasma focus
* Field-reversed configuration
* Levitated dipole
* Magnetic mirror
* Bumpy torus
* Reversed field pinch
* Spheromak
* Stellarator
* Tokamak
* Spherical
* Z-pinch

Inertial|

* Bubble (acoustic)
* Laser-driven
* Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion

Electrostatic|

* Fusor
* Polywell

Other forms|

* Magnetized target
* Migma
* Muon-catalyzed
* Pyroelectric

Devices,
experiments|

| Magnetic
confinement|

| Tokamak|

| International|

* ITER
* DEMO
* PROTO

|

Americas|

* STOR-M
* MEDUSA-CR
* Alcator C-Mod
* DIII-D
* UCLA ET
* LTX
* NSTX
* Pegasus
* PBX-M
* TEXT
* TFTR
* ETE
* Novillo

Asia,
Australia|

* LT-1
* TORTUS
* CT-6
* CFETR
* EAST
* HL-1(M)
* HL-2A
* HT-6(B, M)
* HT-7(U)
* J-TEXT
* KT-5
* SUNIST
* ADITYA
* SST-1
* IR-T1
* JT-60
* QUEST [ja; ja; QUEST]
* KTM
* GLAST
* K-DEMO
* KSTAR

Europe|

* JET
* COMPASS
* GOLEM
* TJ-I
* TFR
* WEST
* ASDEX Upgrade
* TEXTOR
* FTU
* IGNITOR
* RTP
* ISTTOK
* T-3
* T-4
* T-10
* T-15
* TCV
* MAST
* MAST-U
* START

Stellarator|

| Americas|

* ATF
* CTH
* CNT
* HSX
* HIDRA
* NCSX
* QPS
* SCR-1

|

Asia,
Australia|

* H-1NF
* Lingyun
* CHS
* Heliotron J
* LHD
* TU-Heliac

Europe|

* UST-1
* UST-2
* TJ-II
* TJ-IU
* TJ-K
* WEGA [de; de; Plasmaexperiment WEGA]
* Wendelstein 7-AS [de; de; Wendelstein 7-AS]
* Wendelstein 7-X
* Uragan-1
* Uragan-2 (Uragan-2M)
* Uragan-3 (Uragan-3M [uk; uk; Ураган-3М])
* L-2M

RFP|

* RFX
* TPE-RX
* EXTRAP T2R
* MST

Other|

* MTF
* LDX
* MCX
* MFTF
* PFRC
* SSPX
* ZETA

Inertial
confinement|

| Laser|

| Americas|

* Argus
* Cyclops
* Janus
* LIFE
* Long path
* NIF
* Nike
* Nova
* OMEGA
* Shiva

|

Asia|

* SG-I
* SG-II
* SG-III
* SG-IV
* GEKKO XII

Europe|

* HiPER
* Asterix IV (PALS)
* LMJ
* LULI2000
* ISKRA
* Vulcan

Non-laser|

* PTS
* Qiangguang-1
* PACER
* Z machine

Applications|

* Thermonuclear weapon
* Pure fusion weapon

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