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Rotating mirror with all-directional pinch compressions - The beauty and simplicity in controlled nuclear fusion

Linjin Zheng
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Controlling nuclear fusion is so challenging that for decades, people have been asking: Are we closer to infinite clean energy? Upon the philosophy of beauty and simplicity, the current work points out that there can be a shortcut: the rotating mirror with detached electrodes and all-directional pinch compressions. This is based on the provisional patents filed recently by the University of Texas at Austin. The device combines the steady-state and fast processes in the two main streams of controlled nuclear fusion research: magnetic confinement fusion and inertial confinement fusion. The fuel plasma is preheated in a steady-state process in a rotating mirror with detached electrodes and then the pinch compressions in both radial and longitudinal directions are applied as the fast process. Preheating and longitudinal compression, in addition to the radial compression, significantly boost the nuclear fusion rate. Fast compression after the preheating limits the time for thermalization between ions and electrons and, therefore, minimizes the impact of electron bremsstrahlung radiation loss on ions. Based on the existing experimental results, the current method can be extrapolated to have the potential to reach or exceed the Lawson criterion for the first demonstration of the feasibility of peaceful usage of nuclear fusion energy.

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Linjin Zheng. 2026-07-29. Rotating mirror with all-directional pinch compressions - The beauty and simplicity in controlled nuclear fusion. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27024

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