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When the concept was first revealed, it garnered several negative reviews in the journals.{{sfn|Nevins|Carlson|1998}}{{sfn|Wong}} These issues were explained away and the construction of several small experimental devices followed. {{As of|2018}}, the best-reported performance of the system is approximately 10<sup>−12</sup> away from breakeven. In early 2019, it was announced that the system would instead be developed using conventional D-T fuels and the company changed its name to TAE.{{sfn|McMahon|2019}}
==Progressive thermalization fusion reactor==
A new type of fusion reactor, standing between the CBFR and the Stellarator, has been proposed here: [https://doi.org/10.4236/epe.2022.141003 Progressive thermalization fusion reactor able to produce nuclear fusions at higher mechanical gain]. This proposal is summarized here: [https://zenodo.org/record/5036993#.YNnXo7gpdHI Summarized proposal].
In this proposal, the plasma is initially non-thermal but, as expected, rapidly becomes thermal, so all states between non-thermal and thermal exists in this reactor. The main advantage of this reactor is that this plasma after having been brought up near to the optimum conditions for fusion (around 68 keV), is then maintained in this state, thanks to low energy non-thermal ions (≤15 keV), injected as replacement ions. So the energetic cost is low and the mechanical gain (Q) is elevated (≥18), the working being continuous. Moreover, the main plasma control by the particles injectors (I and U) is relatively simple. This reactor has been partly checked on a simulator.
==Inertial electrostatic confinement==
Several types of [[inertial electrostatic confinement]] (IEC) devices are proposed as reactors.
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