Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst

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Pacific Fusion took the wraps off its latest pulser module prototype on Tuesday, a piece of equipment that allows the company to move ahead with its demonstration fusion facility. Construction on the demo is expected to begin this summer. Results from the shipping container-sized prototype were good enough to unlock another tranche of Pacific Fusion’s Series A round, which exceeds $1 billion, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The company did not disclose the size of the tranche. Pacific Fusion is among the best-funded fusion startups. The tranche-based model is more widely used in biotech, where it saves startups time on fundraising, allowing them to remain focused on hitting technical milestones. The funding arrangement has allowed the company “to keep our heads down,” Pacific Fusion CTO Keith LeChien told TechCrunch. “It means that we can lean into the future without spending 20% to 50% time constantly looking for the next piece of capital.” Pacific Fusion is pursuing a form of fusion power known as inertial confinement. Its reactor will use 156 pulser modules to deliver an enormous jolt of electricity to a small fuel target in the fusion chamber. That electrical pulse will create a magnetic field around the eraser-sized fuel…

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