Chris Hagen of National Security Technologies announced for the first time at a November conference in Warsaw, Poland work that has been ongoing for a few years in Las Vegas, Nevada to use large DPFs as neutron sources for testing purposes.

There is a wealth of information and activity on the Plasma Focus, which is not very well known outside the field.  It’s one of the goals of FFS to make this activity better known, and especially to make the emerging concepts accessible to a non-technical audience.  See a few key links listed below.

A possible theoretical collaboration is developing with a Ukrainian researcher, Anton Tykhyy, who has volunteered to help.

A research group in Singapore, using electrodes quite similar to those proposed for the next set of focus fusion experiments, have demonstrated efficiency of energy transfer into plasmoid of at least 50%.

In May 2003, Jorge Pouzo, a leading plasma focus researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, initiated a discussion among DPF (dense plasma focus) scientists in North and South America aimed at forming a “Pan Americana DPF Club”, an organization of DPF researchers. The result has been the formation of an ongoing network for communication among the researchers, which has already produced valuable discussion and will lead to closer collaboration.