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Integrity
Scientific honesty and clear communication at every stage.
R&D & Team
The Core of Discovery.
Over 200 years ago, the Corps of Discovery mapped an uncharted continent. Today, the Core of Discovery at Liberty Fusion is mapping the uncharted territory of commercial fusion energy.
Our Team
Forgingthe Frontier.
Our team unites plasma physicists, aerospace engineers, and commercialization experts under one mission: putting fusion on the grid.
Company Culture
The Three I’s &The Three C’s.
The I’s — Integrity, Innovation, and Inclusivity — are how we think, act, and work together. The C’s — Commercial, Comprehensive, and Competence — define how we operate: commercially viable solutions, systems-level thinking, and the technical skill to turn science into working power plants.
The Three I’sHow we think
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Innovation
First-principles engineering built on peer-verified physics.
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Inclusivity
The best minds of our era, working openly together.
The Three C’sHow we operate
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Commercial
Solutions that are economically viable, not only technically elegant.
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Comprehensive
Systems-level thinking across every subsystem of the reactor.
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Competence
The technical skill to turn science into working power plants.
The Phased Program
DevelopmentRoadmap.
A phased development program for PJMIF, progressing from single-component testing to full system integration to a pilot power plant.
Phase 1
Flintlock
SGTS-1 — Single-Gun Test Stand
Just as a flintlock mechanism is the essential spark for a musket, the SGTS-1 perfects the fundamental building block of the PJMIF concept: the high-velocity plasma gun.
Mission Objectives
- 01Design and build the next-generation coaxial plasma gun for high-pulsed power loads.
- 02Achieve repeatable plasma jet velocity exceeding 50 km/s with required particle density.
- 03Characterize the jet's shape, temperature, and divergence using advanced diagnostics.
- 04Demonstrate electrode and insulator durability over hundreds of repeated firings.
Phase 2
Torch
MTI-1 — Magnetized Target Injector
While Flintlock works on the "hammer," Torch focuses on the "fuel." The MTI-1 creates a magnetized plasma target — a self-contained ring of plasma (a spheromak or field-reversed configuration) with its own internal magnetic field — and injects it into the center of the reaction chamber.
Mission Objectives
- 01Generate a stable, high-temperature plasma target with a sustained internal magnetic field.
- 02Launch the target into a vacuum chamber so it arrives at the exact geometric center at a precise moment in time.
- 03Confirm the target retains its heat and magnetic field for hundreds of microseconds — long enough for the incoming plasma liner to arrive.
Phase 3
Minuteman
Minuteman Sphere
The first system-level experiment. The Minuteman Sphere integrates a large array of plasma guns around a spherical chamber to demonstrate synchronized firing and complete plasma liner formation.
Mission Objectives
- 01Integrate an array of plasma guns and their pulsed-power capacitor banks onto a single vacuum vessel.
- 02Trigger all guns within a window of less than 100 nanoseconds.
- 03Confirm via high-speed imaging that the individual jets merge to form a closed, spherically converging plasma shell.
- 04Measure implosion symmetry as the liner converges toward center.
Phase 4
Independence
Independence Core
The breakthrough mission. The Independence Core is a full-scale scientific fusion device with a full array of plasma guns. It combines the liner technology from Minuteman with the target injector from Torch to attempt significant fusion energy release for the first time.
Mission Objectives
- 01Complete the full-scale facility.
- 02Achieve synchronized firing of the full array to compress an injected target to multimegabar pressures.
- 03Generate a measurable burst of fusion neutrons, confirming that fuel conditions (temperature and density) are being reached.
- 04Demonstrate scientific breakeven: fusion energy released in a single pulse equals or exceeds the energy delivered to the target plasma.
Phase 5
Columbia
LPP-1 — Liberty Pilot Plant
The transition from physics experiment to energy-producing machine. LPP-1 is designed to create fusion repetitively — once every second — and capture the resulting energy. This facility is the engineering blueprint for a commercial fusion power station.
Mission Objectives
- 01Fire the entire system (inject target, fire guns, evacuate chamber) in a continuous cycle at 1 Hz or higher.
- 02Integrate a flowing liquid metal blanket to absorb heat and neutron flux, converting it into thermal energy.
- 03Breed new tritium fuel within the reactor blanket from lithium, closing the fuel cycle.
- 04Operate the plant so total electrical energy produced significantly exceeds total energy consumed.
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Fusionist Papers.
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