Richard Dinan

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Richard Assheton Dermot Dinan
BornOctober 1986 (age 37)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Businessman, author, lecturer, television personality

Richard Assheton Dermot Dinan [1] is a British businessman, author, lecturer, and former television personality. He is the founder of aerospace company Pulsar Fusion, [2] has written the book The Fusion Age: Modern Nuclear Fusion Reactors, [3] [4] and starred in the reality television series Made in Chelsea. [2] [5] [6] [7]

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Early life

Dinan is the son of Barry and Lady Charlotte-Anne Curzon and the grandson of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. [8] He initially attended St. Edward’s School in Oxford. [9] Dinan dropped out of school when he was 16 and began working at the London-based gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. [10]

Career

Shortly after working at Holland & Holland, Dinan founded the magazine Ammunition at age 16. [1] Dinan founded Applied Fusion Systems with physicist James Lambert in 2011 to develop nuclear reactors. [6] [11] The company’s first project was a spherical tokamak based on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak. [6]

Dinan debuted as a cast member on the reality television program Made in Chelsea on its third series, which aired in 2012. [12] He returned to the show in its fifth series, which aired in 2013. [13] He returned for a third time on the program’s tenth series, which aired in 2015. [14]

Dinan also founded the 3D printing business Ion Core in 2013. [15] [16] [17]

Dinan published the book The Fusion Age: Modern Nuclear Fusion Reactors in 2017 and was subsequently invited to lecture on nuclear fusion in venues such as Oxford University. [18]

Dinan eventually changed Applied Fusion Systems’ company name to Pulsar Fusion. [19] In 2019, Dinan and Lambert built a fusion reactor in Milton Keynes for Pulsar Fusion. [20] [21] [22] Dinan and Lambert also began developing nuclear fusion-powered rocket thrusters for space flights [23] and hybrid rocket engines at Pulsar Fusion. [24] [25] [26]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012-2015 Made in Chelsea SelfSeries 3,4 5, and 10

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