Fusion News, September 18, 2024

Jasmine Mund, mechanical design engineer, gives today's Fusion News update - summarizing the major recent headlines in fusion energy. Links to all of the stories mentioned are included below.

1. World’s most powerful stellarator begins experiment for better fusion energy
https://interestingengineering.com/en...

2. Chinese start-up aims for nuclear fusion at half the cost of US rivals
https://www.ft.com/content/bf012cd9-1...

3. ‘World’s largest’ tokamak’s stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas to help reactor design
https://interestingengineering.com/en...

4. Tokamak Energy launches TE Magnetics
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content...

Bonus:
Could powerful lasers unlock cheap fusion power?
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cml2pyv...

Measuring the gamma-ray-to-neutron branching ratio in the deuterium-tritium reaction
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-gamma-r...

Draghi’s Report on European Competitiveness Highlights Fusion as a Disruptive Technology
https://www.fusionindustryassociation...

First plasma marks major milestone in UW–Madison fusion energy research
https://www.wisconsin.edu/all-in-wisc...

Nuclear fusion reactor created by school teenager successfully achieved plasma
https://interestingengineering.com/en...