The latest update from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPPFusion) , which is developing an aneutronic focus fusion power system, is now available on line:  LPP Fusion Report September 8th 2014 –

LPP Focus Fusion Report

September 8, 2014

Summary:

* Fusion Policy: Nature calls for funding aneutronic fusion; ARPA-E puts $30 million for fusion alternatives; Science covers fusion start-ups

* Dr. Hamid R. Yousefi is new LPP Chief Research Officer

* Assembly of FF-1 with tungsten electrodes begins

And from the latter item:

The first steps have now been completed to begin the re-assembly of FF-1. LPP’s lab team has successfully joined the new monolithic tungsten anode to a steel connector plate, creating a current contact that is outside the vacuum chamber and arcing-proof.  Moving the contact outside the vacuum chamber completely eliminates the possibility that vaporization caused by arcing will add impurities to the plasma. In addition, making the contact at a lager radius spreads out the current, making it easier to avoid the intense heating that leads to vaporization.

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 We will now mount the steel plate and anode onto the FF-1 device. We currently expect assembly to be complete in October.