August 2026 | R.E. Groenewald | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
TAE Technologies, Inc. has successfully demonstrated maintenance of a stable field-reversed configuration plasmas through the use of external actuators, which include neutral beam injection, core fueling, and electrode biasing.
February 2026 | Y. Shimabukuro | Plasma Sources Science and Technology | Paper
To realize future long-lifetime negative hydrogen ion sources, two approaches were investigated using a compact coaxial ECR plasma source: direct negative DC biasing and a microwave plasma cathode (MPC) configuration. In noble gases such as argon, …
May 2026 | S. Karbashewski | Physical Review Letters | Paper
We report observations of an energetic-particle mode (EPM) in a linear plasma device that corresponds to an axial bounce resonance of fast ions sourced from neutral-beam injection (NBI). In our experiment, novel dynamic shaping of a magnetic mirror field reduces the distance …
November 2025 | H. Gota | CWFEST 2025 | Presentation
TAE’s goal: p-11B aneutronic fusion Reactivity of p-11B has been reassessed
– Cross section larger than previously believed.
– Kinetic effects can further increase reactivity
– Net effect leads to ~30% increase of the fusion yield for the same…
November 2025 | S. Kamio | 2025 US-Japan FRC Workshop | Presentation
ICRF heating in LHD clearly accelerates fast ions and enhances p-¹¹B fusion yield. In the FRC device C-2W, fast-ion acceleration is also observed together with beam-driven modes. The n = 2 mode can accelerate NB-injected ions to nearly twice their initial energy…