Projectile-driven
A physical projectile accelerated to extreme velocity compresses the fuel on impact. The main open problem is achieving symmetric compression from one, or a few, points of impact, where laser and heavy-ion approaches can spread the drive over many beams.
In the record: 1 company, 0 laboratories and programmes, 1 device and 0 reactor designs.
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Broader: Inertial confinement
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