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By adjusting the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pacific-fusion-finds-a-cheaper-way-to-make-its-fusion-reactor-work-dfpzhh935 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dfPzhH935.png og:image:alt: Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pacific Fusion announced experimental results showing they can eliminate expensive laser and magnet systems from their fusion reactor design. By adjusting the aluminum casing thickness around fuel pellets, they allow magnetic fields to leak through and preheat the fuel before compression, achieving the same effect without additional hardware. This approach uses pulser-driven inertial confinement fusion, compressing pencil-eraser-sized fuel pellets with massive electrical pulses in under 100 nanoseconds. Removing the laser system alone could save over $100 million in costs, bringing commercial fusion power closer to economic viability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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