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Dreams of nuclear fusion have captured investors’ attention in recent years, spurring a boom in private funding driven by technological breakthroughs, new federal funding and the promise of cheap, abundant energy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/nuclear-startup-fuse-valued-at-over-200-million-in-new-funding
There’s been another wave of funding into the commercial fusion sector, with Fuse Energy Technologies Corp. raising a fresh $32 million. The startup is pursuing an unconventional path to fusion energy by first building pulsed-power inertial fusion machines and using them to help customers test radiation effects.
https://ignition-news.com/fuse-energy-technologies-raises-32m/
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (September 12, 2024) — U.S.-based Fuse Energy Technologies (Fuse) announced two new Advisory Board members who have deep experience with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and with international allied governments and commercial entities.
https://www.f.energy/library/fuse-welcome-new-advisory-board-members-doug-greenlaw-and-gregory-van-dyk
Fuse published a peer-reviewed paper that details test results of its novel pulsed-power driver, TITAN, the world’s first high-energy and high-power impedance-matched Marx generator (IMG).
https://www.f.energy/library/titan-results-nature-scientific-reports
Podcast of JC Btaiche and Christian Keil on the channel about deep tech deep dives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GYVqwmQDQ
Twenty-four-year-old JC Btaiche has raised $20 million and signed on Iran’s former top nuclear scientist and former Pentagon officials with an audacious goal: using nuclear fusion to solve all our energy problems.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/07/03/fuse-fusion-energy-startup-cia/
This strategic collaboration will accelerate the development of next generation pulsed power technologies critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent as well as advancing fusion energy, a clean and limitless future energy source.
https://www.f.energy/library/fuse-sandia-crada-announcement
Interview with JC Btaiche, founder of Fuse for episode 46 of S³
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_9SCqBkdA
Fuse is tackling one of humanity's most ambitious endeavors: fusion energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgfDbGmmVc
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (June 3, 2024) — Fuse Energy Technologies Corporation (Fuse) today announced an Advisory Board that will help the company forge partnerships in the energy and defense sectors. The group of senior nuclear scientists and national security experts includes former high-ranking officials from the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
https://www.f.energy/library/advisoryboard
Fuse is building pulsed power generators that can be used, in the near-term, for nuclear effects testing, and, in the long-term, to produce fusion power. It’s unique among fusion companies in that it’s building a business that can fund its journey to fusion, similar to SpaceX using launches and Starlink to fund its mission to Mars.
https://www.notboring.co/p/fuse-energy
Fuse -- an innovative company delivering engineering breakthroughs related to fusion power -- today announced that it has been selected for an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the AirForce related to nuclear effects testing.
https://www.f.energy/library/usairforcesbirannouncement
In the bizarro relay marathon that is the fusion race, the baton is firmly in the hands of the startups. The outcome, to be sure, is still uncertain, but the question isn’t whether humanity will achieve commercial fusion, but which companies will, with which approaches, when?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8suLtCyGGA
6 monthd time-lapse video of the 6 stage TITAN assembly, the world's highest power IMG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj2I7UFEVlI
Pinch-based fusion reactors require multi-MA currents delivered to mm-radii at high fusion fuel densities, leading to necessity of a metallic liner for the current path. One possible solution is MagLIF, magnetized liner inertial fusion.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X23006681#fig2
This animation shows the concept of how Apeiron using MagLIF to generate power and recycle nuclear waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKRNwZuOk0
Existing conventional megajoule plasma focus machines with 2–3 MA are producing fusion neutron yields of several times 1011 in deuterium operation, the fusion yields predominantly being the beam-gas target.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-6272/ac78cc/meta