February 2026 | S. Kamio | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Among various advanced fuel cycles, proton-boron-11 (p-11B) fusion has attracted renewed interest as a potentially clean and sustainable fusion energy source.
This aneutronic fusion concept has long been envisioned as an ultimate cleaner fusion reactor scheme…
November 2025 | S. Dettrick | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
Non-inductive start-up, ramp-up, and sustainment of FRC using neutral beams. Experimental validation of Improved Tilt Stability with Neutral Beams. Neutral
Beams can drive Energetic Particle Modes in Steady State FRC. Electrode biasing improves MHD…
November 2025 | C. Lau | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
CLAUS is a new non-variational eigenvalue solver, which is a modern implementation of the dispersion functional approach based on the Vlasov-Maxwell model and developed specifically for high-đť›˝ plasmas with analytically intractable particle orbits.
November 2025 | A. Bondarenko | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ fifth-generation fusion research device C-2W1 utilizes neutral beam injection and edge biasing to sustain long-lived, stable field reversed configuration (FRC)2 plasma embedded within a magnetic mirror.
November 2025 | M. Nations | APS DPP 2025 | Poster
TAE Technologies’ C-2W device has achieved stable, beam-driven Field-Reversed Configurations (FRCs) maintained for up to 40 ms. Recent advances include real-time plasma control, enhanced fueling via pellets and compact toroids, and the commissioning of new cyclotron resonance heating systems.
November 2025 | R. Groenewald | APS DPP 2025 | Presentation
Overview of NORM (C-2W) Fusion Device –
NORM uses Neutral Beams and End-Biasing Systems to form and sustain either Mirror Plasmas or Field-Reversed
Configurations (FRCs) – see Roche et al., Nature Comm, 16, 3487 (2025) for NBI formed FRC report.