List of fusion power technologies

Pioneers

• Beam-target
• Convergent shock-waves
• Magneto-electrostatic toroid trap
• Tokamak
• Toroidal z-pinch

  Magnetic

• Accelerated FRC
• Bumpy torus
• Galatea
• High beta tokamak
• Levitated dipole
• Odd-parity RMF
• Reversed field pinch
• Spherical tokamak
• Spheromak
• Stellarator
• Tandem Mirror

  Inertial

• Laser Inertial - direct drive
• Inertial confinement fusion - indirect drive
• Inertial confinement fusion - Fast Ignition
• Heavy Ion fusion
• MAGLIF: Combination pinch and laser ICF

  Z-Pinch

• Pulsed z-pinch
• High density Z-pinch
• Inverse Z-pinch

  Inertial Electrostatic Confinement

• Fusor
• IEC
• IEC with Periodically Oscillating Plasma Sphere
• IEC with plasma electrode
• IEC with beam/spherical capacitor
• Polywell
• IEC with Penning trap
• F1

  Other/Combinatorial

• Flow Pinch
• CT Accel
• Magneto-kinetic
• Magnetized target
• Magneto-inertial
• Levitated dipole
• Maryland Centrifugal
• Sheared magnetofluid/Bernoulli confinement
• Penning fusion
• Plasma jets
• Magnetized target fusion with mechanical compression
• Field-reversed colliding beams
• Muon-catalyzed fusion
• Dense Plasma Focus
• Rotating lithium wall