Zap Energy

The U.S. milestone-based public-private fusion program is fundamentally different from the way fusion has been funded over the past several decades and Zap has officially signed the contract to participate. It needs to be bolder, but it’s an important start. https://lnkd.in/ewrVyjdZ

No one gets into fusion because it's easy. Our new video looks inside Zap’s facilities to show what motivates our team to take on fusion's challenges, and what makes our technology different - check it out. #Fusion #FusionPower #FusionEnergy #PlasmaPhysics #PlasmaScience #CleanEnergy #CleanTech #DeepTech Brian Nelson Uri Shumlak Ben Levitt Alexandra [AJ] Kantor Matthew Thompson Derek Sutherland Ryan Umstattd

Another new publication from one of our diagnostics collaborators - this one from Amanda Youmans of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Portable and Adaptable Neutron Diagnostics for Advancing Fusion Energy Science (PANDA-FES) team: https://lnkd.in/gCbTx2Pi This PANDA isn’t interested in bamboo, PANDA-FES is a traveling set of instruments that detect the neutrons produced by fusion reactions in devices like Zap’s Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) to provide an array of important information about our plasmas, including the total number of neutrons they generate and details about the plasma's shape, stability and duration.

This week, the journal Nuclear Fusion published a new paper demonstrating the strong predictive capability of WARPXM simulations for the plasmas in Zap Energy fusion devices. Author Iman Datta is an expert in WARPXM, a computer code developed at the University of Washington for computational plasma dynamics. Read the paper “Whole device modeling of the FuZE sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch” here: https://lnkd.in/g4fc6cjC. Hat tip to Iman Datta, Eric Meier and Uri Shumlak. Learn more about our theory and modeling team’s work on our blog: https://lnkd.in/g_c3N4eG

Major kudos to Fusion Energy Week – U.S. Fusion Energy for pulling together an impressive list of events next week: https://lnkd.in/eiXH767c For students in the Seattle region, RSVPs are still open for our Women in Fusion/STEM panel & tour on May 9: https://lnkd.in/gMJNKMNX And if you're still learning about fusion (or your friends are), Arturo Dominguez and Tammy Ma will offer a #Fusion101 webinar to kick off the week on Monday, May 6: https://lnkd.in/ge3cgqvQ #FusionEnergyWeek

A group of experts from Washington State agencies visited recently to learn about fusion and the regulatory and siting considerations specific to our distinct fusion technologies. Thank you to the Washington State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington State Department of Commerce and others who came for taking the time to tour the facilities and discuss our plans. The visit was a result of the recent passage of Washington House Bill 1924, adding fusion to the state's clean energy strategy (details: https://lnkd.in/gnti7gip).

If you're interested in a deeper dive into our recent publication describing 3 keV/37-million-degree SFS Z-pinch plasmas (Ben Levitt et al.), go check out this X/Twitter thread by paper co-author Derek Sutherland: https://lnkd.in/dHan_iss

THIS JUST IN: Zap Energy achieves a significant milestone on the road to commercializing fusion energy ➡️ Demonstrating electron temperatures exceeding 10 million degrees Celsius (~1keV) with their shear-flow-stabilized Z pinch device. Electron temperatures up to 3 keV were reported. Read more in the ARPA-E blog here: https://lnkd.in/eTdkW-_S

Couldn't be prouder to share latest results from Zap. We've just published electron temperature measurements in Physical Review Letters! These are extremely encouraging results, and show how a very compact device can compete with much larger fusion confinement schemes. Many thanks and congrats to the Zap Energy team, but also especially to our collaborators Clément Goyon from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Simon Bott-Suzuki of UC San Diego and Jacob Banasek from Sandia National Laboratories. Onward Zap!  https://lnkd.in/gFU9G2eG #fusion #plasmaphysics #fusionenergy

Only a few types of technologies have ever generated fusion plasmas with electron temperatures higher than 1 keV/10,000,000° C, roughly the temperature of the core of the sun. A new scientific paper, published in the current issue of Physical Review Letters, details 37-million-degree peak electron temperatures (3 keV) coincident with fusion neutron yields in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch. With this publication, Zap’s unique approach joins a rarefied list of fusion concepts that have overcome plasma instabilities and cooling mechanisms to achieve 3 keV electron temperatures, and no device has ever done it at this small scale. More details in this morning's press release: https://lnkd.in/gZ4nkwVC