 The proposed device has the unusual property that it can avoid both the cusp losses of traditional magnetic fusion systems and the grid losses of traditional IEC configurations.In November 2012, Trend News Agency reported 
that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran had allocated "$8 million" to inertial electrostatic confinement research and about half had been spent.The funded group published a paper in the "Journal of Fusion Energy", which stated that particle-in-cell simulations of a polywell had been conducted.