General Fusion’s Post

Last month at the ISFNT Int. Symposium Fusion Nuclear Technology in Knoxville, our Director of Strategic Partnerships, Myles Hildebrand, shared updates on our world-first LM26 fusion demonstration machine, which has been built, is operating, and compressing plasmas. He also joined a panel on public-private partnerships for fusion technology development, highlighting our extensive network of collaborators. Following ISFNT, Myles participated in DIII-D National Fusion Facility Industry Day to discuss our 2024 collaborative work under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Frontiers of Science program. This includes plasma compression experiments on DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion research facility in the U.S., where we’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with the world-class teams at General Atomics and UC San Diego. Together, we conducted fast radial magnetic compression tests to gather comprehensive data on plasma behaviour, including temperature, density, energy confinement, and toroidal velocity. The trip wrapped up with our team presenting LM26 data at the 67th American Physical Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics conference, the world’s largest gathering dedicated to plasma physics, in Long Beach, California!