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