Description
Last year First Light Fusion released a white paper, FLARE, detailing an end to end inertial fusion reactor scheme. The concept is centred around long pulse, pulsed power driven, cylindrical compression of cold fuel followed by a heating stage for ignition.
We present an overview and status update on simulation progress and experimental validation. A key experimental milestone this year is compression of cryogenic deuterium fuel to several g/cc on our in-house facility, M3.
Author
Hugo Doyle
(First Light Fusion Ltd.)