LPP Fusion

LPP Fusion pursues aneutronic proton-boron fusion in the dense plasma focus (DPF) — a remarkably simple device in which a fast electrical discharge between coaxial electrodes self-organises into a tiny, dense, extremely hot plasmoid. LPP holds the published record for ion temperature in any fusion device: 1.8 billion °C.

DPF can self-organise into a small, dense, hot plasmoid where p-¹¹B becomes feasible — at a hardware budget orders of magnitude below tokamaks.

Global electricity demand is entering an unprecedented growth phase driven by AI infrastructure, data centers, transport electrification, industrial decarbonization, water desalination, and advanced manufacturing. Solar suffers intermittency, wind capacity-factor variability, natural gas carbon emissions, conventional nuclear cost and deployment speed, and batteries energy-density and duration limits. The world requires a new source of clean, dispatchable baseload energy. Fusion represents the ultimate energy source — the challenge is making it commercially practical.

The DPF discharge naturally compresses plasma into a sub-millimeter plasmoid with extreme density and temperature — exactly the conditions where p-¹¹B becomes feasible. The hardware is orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper than a tokamak.

Dense plasma focus (DPF) compresses p-¹¹B fuel to fusion conditions; the resulting alpha-particle beam decelerates through an inductive collector, generating electricity directly.

The DPF device is small, low-capex, and inherently pulsed. Aneutronic + direct conversion gives a uniquely simple plant architecture — but requires ignition conditions never demonstrated at net gain.

A power-plant-class DPF would cost orders of magnitude less than a tokamak. The unit economics depend on shot rate and electrode lifetime rather than reactor scale.

Compact, low-cost aneutronic fusion accessible everywhere.

Prove p-¹¹B fusion in a desktop-scale device.

• Electrode erosion and impurity influx
• Scaling shot rate to power-plant level

1. 2016

   Reported 1.8 × 10⁹ K ion temperature