Inertial Confinement Fusion update - May 5, 2008

One interesting point is that the University of Wisconsin has 100 people and about 10 million in budget per year that is devoted inertial confinement fusion. They are obviously aware of the Bussard approach. It would seem obvious that they would try to adjust their own setups to try to achieve the potentially greater efficiency. Also, if the EMC2 fusion [bussard team] achieves success than the university of Wisconsin fusion department should be immediately trying to replicate and build on the work.

Full article here:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/05/inertial-confinement-fusion-update.html

At the end of this lengthy MSNBC article is some information about the Bussard fusion process where researchers are building a new demonstration system WB7:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/974180.aspx