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Oil major Chevron invests in nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy
Oil major Chevron Corp CVX.N said on Wednesday it is investing in Zap Energy Inc, joining Italy’s ENI ENI.MI and Norwegian state oil company…
Focus fusion is the hottest idea in nuclear energy
Realizing nuclear fusion as a practical energy source poses enormous challenges owing to the extreme physical conditions required by the…
Fusion Energy Innovation: Accelerated Progress in 2020
The world has a major problem to solve. By 2040, we will need 29 trillion KWh of new energy generation…
These Tiny Neutron Generators Could Pave the Way for Fusion
The Madison, Wisconsin-based startup Phoenix has scouted a team of nuclear elites for a new frontier: small reactors that can revolutionize medical imaging, munitions…
The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy
The modern quest for Promethean fire is underway in an anonymous office park in Foothill Ranch, California, an hour southeast…
Bill Gates And Big Oil Are Chasing The Nuclear Fusion Dream
The decades-old debate over nuclear fusion vs. fission is on the edge of a breakthrough as startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems wins over…
Fusion Energy Is Coming, and Maybe Sooner Than You Think
When British physicist Arthur Stanley Eddington first proposed in the 1920s that the sun and stars were powered by the…
Fusion: Efforts to harness ‘star power’ gain ground
Scientists, private companies, investors and governments are all growing more confident that smaller-scale fusion energy power systems are closer to…
Energy launches grant to research nuclear fusion power
Champions of nuclear power in the 1950s predicted it would be too cheap to meter. That didn’t work out. But…
Can Mass. launch the fusion revolution?
Since the 1950s physicists have researched something they knew was theoretically possible but technically challenging: the effective generation of fusion energy…
More Federal Interest in Private Fusion: DOE Seeks Input on Possible Cost Share Program to Support Private Fusion Energy Companies
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a formal Request for Information (“RFI”)[1] seeking input from all interested stakeholders regarding a…
Hydrogen-boron fusion could be a dream come true
The various fields of science and technology are so closely connected that a breakthrough in one area can rapidly trigger…
Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States
In an ambitious push to develop and implement nuclear fusion power, a team of 300 researchers just published a massive…
Billionaires Chasing Fusion Energy Face a Credibility Test
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Peter Thiel beware. There could be a shakeup on the horizon among the billionaire-backed companies…
Why the UK may hold the secret to providing the world with limitless energy
Nick Hawker is standing inches away from a gun that can fire bullets at 33,500mph. “Let’s just say, it wouldn’t…
Fusion Startups Step In to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream
If Nick Hawker’s computer models are right, the snap of a pistol shrimp’s claw holds the secret to boundless clean…
5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality
Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away…and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first…
Tokamak Energy raises £67m from billionaire behind Capri Sun to make Oxford nuclear fusion hub
He built a fortune on the lunchbox favourite Capri Sun and now one Swiss billionaire hopes to harness the power…
A fusion startup backed by Jeff Bezos just raised another $65 million, signaling that investors are still betting on this ‘Holy Grail’ technology
A fusion energy startup backed by Jeff Bezos just closed a $65 million funding round, led by the massive Singapore-based…
American Scientists Are About to Start Shooting Plasma Guns in a Bid to Achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with “plasma guns” in the…
The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality
Technology. After decades of disappointingly slow but steady progress, the race for fusion energy is now fully on, with governments,…
Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet From Climate Catastrophe
About two dozen private companies around the world are working to harness a transformative energy technology that could rescue the planet from…
Fusion Soon-ish
Nuclear fusion: It’s the ultimate energy source. Fusion powers the Sun and all the other stars. It is what makes…
A Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a roughly $50 million boost
After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the…
Why the Quest for Nuclear Fusion Is More Urgent Than Ever
Nuclear fusion is 30 years away and always will be, physicists have long joked. But its allure has never diminished:…
Fusing the future—a power struggle
IN THIS week’s Babbage, Alok Jha, our science correspondent, investigates a technology that could solve all of the world’s energy problems…
The New Nuclear: How A $600 Million Fusion Energy Unicorn Plans To Beat Solar
Walking with Michl Binderbauer into his 2-acre laboratory feels a bit like taking a factory tour with Willy Wonka. In…
The Fusion Reactor Next Door
On a Friday afternoon, a small group of scientists gathered in front of a bank of computer screens near a…
Fusion power is attracting private-sector interest
In 1920 Arthur Eddington, an English astrophysicist, gave a lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the…
Fusion power start-ups go small in effort to bring commercial reactors to life
For decades, the quest for nuclear fusion energy has been driven by giant government-led projects — with giant price tags to match.
Billionaires back fusion energy projects in pursuit of a ‘SpaceX moment’
Not long before he died, tech visionary Paul Allen traveled to the south of France for a personal tour of a…
We Were Promised Fusion Energy
For the entirety of recorded history, humans have worshipped nuclear fusion. It’s gone by different names over the millennia, of…
Nuclear Fusion: Sustainable Energy From Plasma Hotter than the Sun Edges Closer
The prospect of fusion energy—a potentially limitless and clean source of power—has just edged a little closer. Scientists believe they…
Could these mini reactors replicate the power of the Sun?
For decades scientists have tried to replicate nuclear fusion – the process that powers the Sun. If successful it would…
This Vancouver Startup Is Chasing the Dream of Clean, Limitless Energy Forever
In the suburbs of Vancouver, a team is working on what they think is humanity’s best chance at clean, unlimited…
Is Fusion Energy in Our Future?
John Holdren has heard the old joke a million times: fusion energy is 30 years away—and always will be. Despite…
Is alluring but elusive fusion energy possible in our lifetime?
Limitless power with virtually no greenhouse gases or radioactive waste. If that sounds too good to be true, that’s because…
Can Small Fusion Energy Start-Ups Conquer the Problems That Killed the Giants?
Sitting in the control room of Tri Alpha Energy’s experimental fusion reactor, in front of computer screens labeled “plasma guns”…
Go Inside TriAlpha, A Startup Pursuing the Ideal Power Source
No energy technology is more tantalizing than fusion, but no energy technology has proved more disappointing. So how has a…
Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy’s Holy Grail
The machine lives in a white building in an Orange County office park so uninteresting-looking that not even the person…
Start-Ups Take On Challenge of Nuclear Fusion
A group of start-ups is promising a new and virtually unlimited source of power, one that produces none of the…
MIT Researchers’ (Relatively) Cheap Fusion
Innovator: Dennis WhyteAge: 51Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology