Collaboration
Focus Fusion is the fruit of a research program involving dozens of experimental groups over 40 years [more info]. Here we list and link to the various groups we’ve collaborated with most recently.
CCHEN - Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission
The Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN) and LPP embarked on a joint project in March, 2006, to carry out a series of experiments aimed at testing the scientific feasibility of focus fusion. Unfortunately, due to equipment issues, this collaboration could not progress.
Ferrara
Due to lack of funding, this collaboration never got very far. The only results we have from them are noted in this article. More info on the collaboration here »
Naval Research Laboratory
Our simulations are moving forward with Robert Terry of the Naval Research Laboratory. More »
George Mason University
Collaboration with George Mason University (“GMU”) has also slowed down due to the lack of ATP grant funding. More »
Doug Olsen
Focus Fusion Society member Doug Olsen volunteered to carry out a series of computer analysis on the electrodes. Olsen is a senior engineer with Northrop Grumman Corporation. More »
UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Dr. Julio Herrera, physicist and professor at UNAM has this to say about Focus Fusion:
The focus fusion experimental program has great potential to show how the plasma focus can be used to generate fusion energy and to demonstrate the feasibility of hydrogen-boron fusion. In addition, the experiments will investigate the magnetic effect, which will be very exciting. Achieving giga-gauss magnetic fields with the plasma focus, getting gyro-radii of the order of the electron Compton wavelength, will certainly be new physics and will open up large new possibilities for energy production.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL
From 1994-2001 Lawrenceville Plasma Physics was funded $300,000 by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to carry out research aimed at developing focus fusion for space propulsion. This research was carried out in collaboration with teams of scientists at University of Illinois and Texas A&M University. The funding terminated in 2001 not because JPL was dissatisfied with the results, but because the program that was funding this and other research, Advanced Propulsion Technology, was itself de-funded.