Stellarator begins experiment, Chinese startup raise, D-T plasmas, TE Magnetics

Jasmine Mund, mechanical design engineer, gives today's Fusion News update - summarizing the major recent headlines in fusion energy. Links to all of the stories mentioned are included below. 1. World’s most powerful stellarator begins experiment for better fusion energy https://interestingengineering.com/energy/stellarator-wendelstein-7-x-nuclear-fusion 2. Chinese start-up aims for nuclear fusion at half the cost of US rivals https://www.ft.com/content/bf012cd9-1624-49c1-8352-5a91fb4d9a21 3. ‘World’s largest’ tokamak’s stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas to help reactor design https://interestingengineering.com/energy/jet-tokamak-deuterium-tritium-plasmas 4. Tokamak Energy launches TE Magnetics https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/tokamak-energy-launches-te-magnetics?mc_cid=298a918966 Bonus: Could powerful lasers unlock cheap fusion power? https://bbc.com/news/articles/cml2pyvmw9ro Measuring the gamma-ray-to-neutron branching ratio in the deuterium-tritium reaction https://phys.org/news/2024-09-gamma-ray-neutron-ratio-deuterium.html Draghi’s Report on European Competitiveness Highlights Fusion as a Disruptive Technology https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/draghis-report-on-european-competitiveness-highlights-fusion-as-a-disruptive-technology/ First plasma marks major milestone in UW–Madison fusion energy research https://www.wisconsin.edu/all-in-wisconsin/story/first-plasma-marks-major-milestone-in-uw-madison-fusion-energy-research/ Nuclear fusion reactor created by school teenager successfully achieved plasma https://interestingengineering.com/energy/nuclear-fusion-reactor-by-teenager-achieved-plasma