KMS Fusion was the first private company to attempt to produce a fusion reactor using the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach. The basic concept, developed in 1969 by Keith Brueckner, was to infuse small glass spheres with a fuel gas and then compress the sphere using lasers until they reached the required temperature and pressures. In May 1974 they demonstrated neutron output consistent with small levels of fusion events in a D-T filled target, the first published success for this technique.
Unknown to the company when they proposed the idea in 1969, several of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) labs were also working on the same concept, which at that time was highly classified. The labs continually agitated against KMS' efforts. When the successful tests met the lab's predictions, far below KMS' own predictions, the AEC used the success as proof their designs were better. The company attempted to arrange funding from the AEC for continued development, but the company founder, Kip Siegel, died in 1975 while testifying to congress on the topic.
The company continued on mainline ICF for the next several years, first using Siegel's life insurance policy and then funding from the AEC. By the late 1970s, the programs simulating the ICF process demonstrated much larger lasers were needed, and KMS' continued funding into the 1980s was related almost entirely to fuel pellet fabrication and expertise in handling tritium. In 1991, this program moved to General Atomic in California and KMS closed.
KMSFusion was the first private company to attempt to produce a fusion reactor using the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach. The basic concept...
interaction studies. In 1967 Kip Siegel started KMS Industries. In the early 1970s he formed KMSFusion to begin development of a laser-based ICF system...
research. KMSFusion, a private-sector company, builds an ICF reactor using laser drivers. Despite limited resources and numerous business problems, KMS successfully...
concept. On May 1, 1974, the KMSfusion company (founded by Kip Siegel) achieved the world's first laser induced fusion in a deuterium-tritium pellet...
Douglas Corporation; KMS Industries and KMSFusion. KMSFusion was the first private sector company to pursue controlled thermonuclear fusion energy production...
the KMS API. Those drivers that implement Kernel Mode-Setting are often called KMS drivers as a way to differentiate them from the legacy—without KMS—DRM...
Experiments directed toward developing fusion power are invariably done with dedicated machines which can be classified according to the principles they...
the early 1970s, Brueckner formed KMSFusion to commercialize this concept. This sparked an intense rivalry between KMS and the weapons labs. Formerly ignored...
ConFusion instead. The name turned out to be prophetic as the first science Guest of Honor was the owner of local technology spin-off company KMSFusion...
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose...
physicist and entrepreneur, founder of KMSFusion to develop (on May 1, 1974) the first laser-controlled thermonuclear fusion; in New York City (d. 1975) Mary...
originally built in the late 1980s for Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research by KMSFusion, founded by Kip Siegel, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it was later...
December 2014. Airlie, David (26 November 2009). "DisplayPort supported by KMS driver mainlined into Linux kernel 2.6.33". Retrieved 16 January 2016. "Radeon...
December 2014. Airlie, David (26 November 2009). "DisplayPort supported by KMS driver mainlined into Linux kernel 2.6.33". Retrieved 16 January 2016. "Radeon...
ssl (SSL over TCP/IP). "How to troubleshoot the Key Management Service (KMS)". TechNet. Microsoft. n.d. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved...
guide. New Delhi: Fusion Books. p. 278. ISBN 9788128400674. Retrieved 11 January 2017. "NAINITAL; Railway Station : Kathgodam 35 kms [sic]" "Departures...
spatial plan. It would become the second largest ocean area at 1.35 million sq kms (521,000 sq. mi.) behind Norway, in support of its blue economy. The Seychelles...
album Rumbadoodle released in 2012. "Bliss", the first song from his Indian Fusion project released as a single in 2013 was featured on a worldwide Exclusive...
1974: The first successful nuclear fusion using a laser, (inertial confinement fusion), was achieved by scientists at KMS Industries, backed by Keeve M. "Kip"...
3.2, OpenGL 4.0 and Vulkan 1.1. There are no plans on writing a new DRM/KMS driver kernel driver for the Vivante hardware, since Vivante previously put...
company, Reliance Industries is developing world's largest zoo near by 28 kms from Jamnagar city. Luxury hotel chain Lemon Tree Hotels will open its new...
December 2014. Airlie, David (26 November 2009). "DisplayPort supported by KMS driver mainlined into Linux kernel 2.6.33". Retrieved 16 January 2016. "Radeon...
Physics published Igor Bogdanoff's "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale", while Nuovo Cimento published "KMS space-time at the Planck scale". According...
about "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale". The main result of this paper is that this thermodynamic equilibrium should be a KMS state. This...
guide. New Delhi: Fusion Books. p. 278. ISBN 9788128400674. Retrieved 11 January 2017. "NAINITAL; Railway Station : Kathgodam 35 kms" "History". www.stjosephscollege...
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