Talk:Timeline of nuclear fusion

Plasma pressure

The article says: 1991 - The START Tokamak fusion experiment began in Culham. The experiment would eventually achieve a record plasma pressure of 40% does anyone know 40% of what? Slinger 30 June 2005 05:40 (UTC)

The ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic field pressure. (Efficiency)

Thanks! Slinger

ITER construction

"Construction of ITER was originally planned to start at the end of 2005, but will probably be delayed until March 2006." As far as I can tell, it's now September 2006. Any idea what the status is now? Direbmem 02:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

ahhhm 2008? [1] soon to be pushed back to 2010? soon to be postponed to 2015 then soon after to be cancelled? sorry...bit cynical there.... --Deglr6328 03:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

ChinaView news

In ChinaView news (Jan 15, 2007) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/15/content_5608276.htm they claim that "During the first round of experiments, the reactor created a plasma lasting nearly five seconds and generating an electrical current of 500 kilo amperes." What's the hype about this? Is there fusion or not? Produces more energy than it consumes or not?

It absolutely has NOT broken even but yes some fusion can be done at the temperatures claimed.--Deglr6328 19:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Misleading

The current timeline makes it sound like Teller created the H-bomb at Livermore Lab in 1952. This is absolutely incorrect. Livermore Lab was barely in existence in 1952; it wasn't able to design a successful fission weapon, much less a fusion one, for many years afterwards. The first H-bomb was developed by Los Alamos, not Livermore. --24.147.86.187 12:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Tuck memo

I have been given permission to place a memo by James L. Tuck on my website; this memo contains remarks by Tuck pertinent to the naming of Project Sherwood. Bill Jefferys (talk) 21:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Polywell

Where's a good place to link to Bussard's Polywell work? Does this belong on this page? 213.152.52.109 (talk) 16:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Cold Fusion

The statement "no subsequent experiments by other researchers revealed any evidence of fusion." is speculative, prejudicial, premature, and a bunch of other adjectives ... including, after 20 years, counterproductive.
As even A. C. Clarke acknowledged in 2001, there's 'something going on', and the nature of it hasn't been determined yet. Considering that the ACS just included a panel on LENR (http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/237nm/techprogram/S29619.HTM), it seems time to drop the witch-hunting language in favor of NPOV. And, possibly, to stop blacklisting sites like lenr-canr.org/ . Clever, but it's censorship. Twang (talk) 20:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

ITER

It says: "Construction of ITER was originally planned to start at the end of 2005, but will probably be delayed until 2008.". Has construction of ITER started in 2008 or not? In any case, this should be updated. --93.139.81.170 (talk) 08:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Integration with Fusion power article/ NO CITATIONS

This is great information. I am going to pull it into the article on fusion power. However, I NEED CITATIONS, and there are very few listed here.

Too much on SPRFD HIF

2009 says "Fusion Power Corporation files patent application for "Single Pass RF Driver" a RF Accelerator Driven HIF Process and Method." and its mentioned 3 more times - sounds like an advert for an idea. Better to just have on Fusion Power Corporation ? - Rod57 (talk) 03:13, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Merge with Fusion power#History

Fusion power has swollen uncontrollably and it is time to refactor. One thought is to merge most of the history material with this article, which begs the question of whether the subject is better treated with a well-source trad History article, or to have 2, one a history and one a timeline. Given the sourcing problems here, I suggest a switch to a History, merging the sourced bits of this one as appropriate. Thoughts? Lfstevens (talk) 19:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)