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Deep Fission to break ground this week
With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
W. Anderson, E. Armijo, B. Barthell, J. Bartos, H. Bush, L. Foreman, F. Garcia, P. Gobby, V. Gomez, V. Gurule, D. Hatch, B. Henneke, R. Manzanares, J. Moore, G. Reeves, G. Rivera, M. Salazar, L. Salzer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 486-492
Fusion Material and Plasma-Facing Component | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40203
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Pulse power can be used to generate high energy density conditions in convergent hollow cylindrical geometry through the use of appropriate electrode configuration and cylindrical loads. Cylindrically symmetric experiments are conducted with the Pegasus-II inductive store, capacitor energized pulse power facility at Los Alamos using both precision machined cylindrical liner loads and low mass vapor deposited cylindrical foil loads. The liner experiments investigate solid density hydrodynamic topics. Foil loads vaporize from Joule heating to generate an imploding cylindrical plasma which can be used to simulate some fluxes associated with fusion energy processes. Similar experiments are conducted with “Procyon” inductive store pulse power assemblies energized by explosively driven magnetic flux compression.