List of fusion power technologies

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

## Pioneers

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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1. ^ "CNT". www.apam.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 11 October 2003. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

## See also

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* Fusion One Corporation
* Magnetized target fusion technology description by General Fusion Archived 2009-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
* Inertial Confinement Fusion at NIF - How ICF Works Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
* Focus Fusion
* EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation Archived 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine

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Fusion power, processes and devices

Core topics|

| Nuclear fusion|

* Burning plasma
* Timeline
* List of experiments
* List of technologies
* Commercial
* Aneutronic

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* 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
* Helium flash
* Nova

* remnants

* Proton–proton chain
* Carbon-burning
* Lithium burning
* Neon-burning
* Oxygen-burning
* Silicon-burning
* R-process
* S-process

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Magnetic|

* Field-reversed configuration
* Levitated dipole
* Magnetic mirror
* Bumpy torus
* Pinch
* Dense plasma focus
* Reversed field
* Theta
* Zeta
* Stellarator
* Tokamak
* Spherical
* Spheromak
* Dynomak
* Toroidal solenoid

Magneto-inertial|

* Magnetized liner
* Magnetized target

Inertial|

* Bubble (acoustic)
* Laser-driven
* Ion-driven

Electrostatic|

* Fusor
* Polywell

Other forms|

* Colliding beam
* Migma
* Metal lattice
* Muon-catalyzed
* Pyroelectric

Devices,
experiments|

| Magnetic
confinement|

| Tokamak|

| International|

* ITER
* DEMO
* PROTO

|

Americas|

* STOR-M
* Alcator C-Mod
* ARC
* SPARC
* DIII-D
* Electric Tokamak
* LTX
* NSTX
* PLT
* TFTR
* Pegasus
* Riggatron
* SSPX
* ETE
* TCABR
* Novillo [es]

Asia,
Oceania|

* CFETR
* EAST
* HT-7
* HH70
* HL-2A
* HL-2M
* SUNIST
* ADITYA
* SST-1
* JT-60
* QUEST [ja]
* GLAST
* KSTAR
* TT-1

Europe|

* JET
* COMPASS
* GOLEM [cs]
* TFR
* WEST
* ASDEX Upgrade
* TEXTOR
* DTT
* FTU
* IGNITOR
* ISTTOK
* T-15
* TCV
* MAST-U
* START
* STEP

Stellarator|

| Americas|

* CNT
* CTH
* HIDRA
* HSX
* Model C
* NCSX
* SCR-1

|

Asia,
Oceania|

* H-1NF
* Heliotron J
* LHD

Europe|

* WEGA
* Wendelstein 7-AS
* Wendelstein 7-X
* TJ-II
* Uragan-2M
* Uragan-3M [uk]

Pinch|

* Perhapsatron
* Sceptre
* ZETA

RFP|

* RFX
* MST

Mirror|

* GDT
* Astron
* Lockheed Martin CFR
* MFTF
* TMX

Other|

* LDX
* PFRC
* Trisops

Magneto-inertial|

* SPECTOR
* Linus
* FRX-L – FRCHX
* Fusion Engine

Inertial
confinement|

| Laser|

| Americas|

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

|

Asia|

* GEKKO XII

Europe|

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

Non-laser|

* PACER
* Z machine

* International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility
* ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility

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