LPPFusion
New Jersey-based LPPFusion researches Focus Fusion, combining a dense plasma focus (DPF) with hydrogen–boron-11 fuel. Its current experimental device is FF-2B, incorporating changes including electrode materials from the earlier FF-1. The official technology description frames the work as seeking scientific feasibility, not offering a commercial electricity generator for sale.
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- Official name
- LPPFusion
- English name
- LPPFusion
- Location
- United States
- Year established
- Not confirmed
- Industry
- Fusion reactor development
- Technology field
- Dense plasma focus and proton–boron-11
- Type of involvement
- Research and development
Role in the fusion industry
New Jersey-based LPPFusion researches Focus Fusion, combining a dense plasma focus (DPF) with hydrogen–boron-11 fuel. Its current experimental device is FF-2B, incorporating changes including electrode materials from the earlier FF-1. The official technology description frames the work as seeking scientific feasibility, not offering a commercial electricity generator for sale.
Key products and technologies
- FF-2B experimental device and Focus Fusion power concept
Disclosed involvement and track record
New Jersey-based LPPFusion researches Focus Fusion, combining a dense plasma focus (DPF) with hydrogen–boron-11 fuel. Its current experimental device is FF-2B, incorporating changes including electrode materials from the earlier FF-1. The official technology description frames the work as seeking scientific feasibility, not offering a commercial electricity generator for sale.
Focus Fusion Energy ↗ The DPF Device ↗Related projects
A relationship with a specific project has not been verified.
- Focus Fusion Energy(Verified 2026-10-30）
- The DPF Device(Verified 2026-10-30）
- Preparation for pB11 tests: FF-2B research paper (2024)(Verified 2026-10-30）
- Our Plan to Net Energy(Verified 2026-10-30）
Last verified: 2026/10/30 11:08:00 (Japan time)
What is being developed
New Jersey-based LPPFusion researches Focus Fusion, combining a dense plasma focus (DPF) with hydrogen–boron-11 fuel. Its current experimental device is FF-2B, incorporating changes including electrode materials from the earlier FF-1. The official technology description frames the work as seeking scientific feasibility, not offering a commercial electricity generator for sale. [1]
The concept concentrates current and plasma briefly into a small region rather than heating an entire large vacuum vessel. A small reaction region, however, does not automatically simplify the complete power supply, shielding, exhaust and cooling installation.
Electrodes and pulsed power shape the reaction region
A DPF places coaxial electrodes inside a vacuum chamber containing low-pressure gas. Discharge-driven plasma concentrates into a localized dense region. Conditions in what the company calls a plasmoid are central. This is not a tokamak maintaining a large stable torus for a long duration. [2]
FI's assessment is that engineering comparisons must extend beyond electrode geometry to repeatable pulsed power, timing, gas conditions, calibrated diagnostics and electrode erosion. One good shot does not establish that identical conditions can be repeated over long periods.
Separating deuterium results from hydrogen–boron validation
The company's researchers' peer-reviewed paper of 5 September 2024 concerns preparation for pB11 tests in FF-2B. High ion energies in deuterium experiments must not be relabeled as net energy achieved with hydrogen–boron. The paper treats neutron-producing and radioactive side products as diagnostic and safety issues, alongside the main reaction. [3]
A fuel whose principal reaction produces no neutrons is not equivalent to a facility containing no neutrons or radioactive material. Fuel purity, reaction branches and surrounding materials require assessment. This distinction does not dismiss pB11; it defines the scope of its potential advantages accurately.
What the net-energy roadmap's numbers mean
The company's plan describes moving from a reported fusion yield of 0.25 J toward 30 kJ for device-level net energy. Its estimates combine improvements in compression, current and fuel. Multiplying those projected improvements is not an integrated experimental achievement. The figures are a corporate development plan. [4]
Yield is energy from one reaction event. Assessing generator output also requires repetition rate, energy recovery, power-supply and cooling consumption, and downtime. Temperature, local density, individual-shot yield and annual net electricity are distinct metrics; achieving one does not establish the others.
Additional steps toward a generator
The same plan places repetitive pulsed operation, conversion of ion-beam and X-ray energy, cooling and controls in subsequent development. Net output of 5 MW is also a future goal. Undated relative durations should not be converted into a firm commissioning year measured from today. [4]
Useful next milestones concern which device and conditions reproduce pB11 reactions, the boundaries used to measure energy input and output, and evidence for repeated operation and component lifetime. Publications matter, but peer review does not automatically validate the company's intended mass-production cost or business success.
Business position
LPPFusion offers a different development route based on pulsed power and small dense plasmas among larger power-reactor concepts. FI does not convert comparative company claims or fundraising into recommendations. The founding year has not been established from this source review and should not be guessed. Readers should also be able to distinguish photographs of experimental hardware from illustrations of future generators.
Sources
[1] Focus Fusion Energy [2] The DPF Device [3] Preparation for pB11 tests: FF-2B research paper (2024) [4] Our Plan to Net Energy