How It Works: Plasma Injector Technology at General Fusion

Fusion starts with making a stable plasma. To produce energy from fusion, we must control the plasma fuel’s temperature, density, and duration. General Fusion has built and tested 24 different Plasma Injector systems through its testing program, operating multiple systems at the same time and firing up to 100 plasma tests per day with more than 200,000 tests to date. In 2018, General Fusion commissioned the largest and most powerful plasma injector in the world – PI3 – which creates plasmas at the scale required for the Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP).