the science behind fusion energy
Irvin R. Lindemuth, Ph.D., formerly Special Assistant for Russian Collaboration Office of Associate Director for Weapons Physics Los Alamos National Laboratory October 24, 2011 Mr. Tom Tamarkin 5545 El Camino Avenue Carmichael, California 95608 Ref: Response to your questions on analysis of plasma jet Magneto Inertial Fusion (PJMIF) Dear Mr. Tamarkin: I have finally found … Read more
A presentation by Prepared by C. Y. Francis Thio, Ph.D., October 4, 2011 for USCL Corporation and Tom D. Tamarkin. October 4, 2011 Outline This presentation was originally prepared by Dr. C. Y. Francis Thio in PDF format. We have converted the original PDF document for on-line website presentation and have taken great care to … Read more
By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President USCL Corp T. D. Tamarkin USCL-EnergyCite® Additional scientific contributors, S. C. Hsu, Ph.D., T. J. Awe, Ph.D., S. Brockington, Ph.D., A. Case, Ph.D., J. T. Cassibry, Ph.D., G. Kagan, Ph.D., S. J. Messer, Ph.D., M. Stanic, X. Tang, Ph.D., D. R. Welch, Ph.D., and F. D. Witherspoon, Ph.D. … Read more
Background In the United States and most countries large government sponsored fusion projects are based on two somewhat opposite scientific approaches. These are: Magnetic Confinement tokomak The tokomak is the most developed magnetic confinement system and is the basis for the design of future fusion reactors using this method. It was invented in the Soviet … Read more
Innovative Confinement Concepts and Alternative Fusion Approaches Between 1996 and 2000, the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) recommended a vigorous program in Innovative Confinement Concepts to explore several practical alternative paths to the mainline Magnetic Confinement and Inertial Confinement programs. It was never funded. After the U.S. joined the ITER program as a 9% … Read more
By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President USCL Corp In anticipation of a possible nuclear renaissance, there has been an enthusiastic renewal of interest in the fusion-fission hybrid concept, driven primarily by some members of the fusion community. A fusion-fission hybrid consists of a neutron-producing fusion core surrounded by a fission blanket. Hybrids are of … Read more
By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President USCL Corp Legend has it that there are more problems in attaining controlled nuclear fusion than scientists anticipated, and that little progress has been made. “Fusion is still fifty years away, and always has been” has become the common refrain of skeptics. But the reason that we do … Read more
Reactors and Atom Bombs A nuclear reactor is a power plant, that uses nuclear fission to eventually generate electricity. An atom bomb also uses nuclear fission to generate energy causing an explosion. However, due to fundamental differences between the two a nuclear reactor cannot explode like an atom bomb. To understand these differences, it is … Read more
FutureOfNuclear.com by Ian Angus McLennan September 18, 2013 What do Jeff Bezos, BDC, SDTC, Cenovus Energy, Chrysalix, Braemar, Entrepreneurs’ Fund, and Growthworks have in common? They’ve all invested in General Fusion. General Fusion was founded in 2002 with the goal of developing economically viable fusion power. Michael Delage, VP of Strategy and Corporate Development, will … Read more
