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The voracious appetite of the ITER project has left almost no public money for other than ‘ITER-relevant’ tokamak research. Private venture capital has stepped in and is presently funding a number of private companies that have sprung up in this century as spin-offs of universities and national laboratories or otherwise. Most of them are pursuing the unpromising approaches mentioned in the previous chapter.
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Brochure SPARC–The high Field Path to Fusion https://www.psfc.mit.edu/files/psfc/imce/research/topics/sparc/MITSPARCbrochure.pdf.
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Tokamak Energy, as we have seen in Chap. 11, is also struggling with this problem. They hope to develop HTS magnets that can be used in a ST design.
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Clicking on its logo on the members’ page of the Fusion Industry Association brings you to the website of the non-profit organisation EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation, also founded by Bussard, but a different entity. This website too seems to be defunct.
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Leonid Zakharov, private communication.
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LPP stands for Lawrenceville Plasma Physics. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. is the parent company of LPPFusion.
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https://terrapower.com/; TerraPower is developing a class of nuclear fast reactors called the travelling wave reactor (TWR).
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https://lppfusion.com/mission/, last accessed 27 June 2020.
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Among other things he wrote the book The Big Bang Never Happened, which rejects mainstream big bang cosmology. See his Wikipedia page for more details.
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https://lppfusion.com/, an extensive commendable website with lots of information.
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https://www.hb11.energy/. Last accessed 27 June 2020.
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Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMS_Fusion.
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https://www.zapenergyinc.com/, last accessed 27 June 2020.
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https://www.typeoneenergy.com/, well-presented, informative and clear website.
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See https://www.titansofnuclear.com/dougwitherspoon for an interview with the founder of HyperV Technologies Corp.
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The company calls them plectonemes; a plectoneme is a loop of helices twisted together such that they cannot be separated without breaking them. The word is especially used for nucleic acids.
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See the Glossary for an explanation of this term.
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Reinders, L.J. (2021). Privately Funded Research into Fusion. In: The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64344-7_15
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