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Fusion Energy Advocates Press Case for Federal Backing
At a recent House Science Committee hearing, fusion experts highlighted recent breakthroughs in the field and urged the U.S. to…
Nuclear fusion and the race to save planet with gas hotter than the sun
Scientists and their rich backers are edging closer to what some say is a pipe dream
DOE holding back carbon-free fusion power, lawmakers told
Leaders in U.S. fusion science told a House panel yesterday that inadequate Department of Energy support was holding back development…
The chase for fusion energy
The ancient village of Culham, nestled in a bend of the River Thames west of London, seems an unlikely launching…
Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming
The nuclear fusion startup Helion, which announced recently that it has raised $500 million, says it has developed new technologies…
Want to Save the Earth? We Need a Lot More Elon Musks.
If I am brutally honest, there is only one motto I would give to the movement to stem climate change…
Fusion’s role in fighting climate change
Excitement about fusion energy is growing. The international ITER project in France, which counts China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia, South…
Nuclear Fusion Attracts Startups—and Skeptics
Recent technological breakthroughs and a surge in private funding have reignited interest in nuclear fusion, the atomic reaction that powers…
Unveiling the steady progress toward fusion energy gain
The march towards fusion energy gain, required for commercial fusion energy, is not always visible. Progress occurs in fits and…
The buzz about fusion energy: Expert explains industry’s ‘reinvigoration’ as tech attracts VC dollars
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free…
Thiel-backed fusion power startup raises $500 million
A Washington-based nuclear fusion startup has added another $500 million to its purse as it works toward demonstrating net electricity generation…
Nuclear fusion start-up Helion scores $375 million investment from Open AI CEO Sam Altman
Nuclear fusion is the ephemeral holy grail of climate technology. It would provide nearly limitless amounts of clean energy without…
Europe falls behind UK and US in private race for nuclear fusion
Despite its massive investment in the ITER fusion project in France, the EU is home to only a tiny fraction…
Fusion industry predicts electricity generation by the 2030s
Most private fusion companies expect fusion power to be supplying electricity to the grid in the 2030s. That is according…
Australian Company Works to Make Energy From Nuclear Fusion – But Without the Fiery Ball of Plasma
Nuclear fusion promises unlimited renewable energy, but technological and physical challenges have not allowed humans to harness the power of…
HB11 Energy’s Aneutronic Non-Thermal Fusion Process: Is It The Way Out Of The Fusion Impasse?
For decades we have been beguiled by the idea that fusion will be the miracle solution to our quest for…
The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint
In September, a very large, incredibly powerful magnet was unloaded in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France to be incorporated into the…
Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream
Long-shot money is flowing into start-ups that seek the energy of the stars. Driving the investments is a rising alarm…
UK government publishes fusion strategy
The UK government on 1 October published a strategy setting out how it aims to leverage scientific, commercial and international…
Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
Let’s say that you’ve devoted your entire adult life to developing a carbon-free way to power a household for a…
Clean energy from the fastest moving objects on earth
“You might want to cover your ears,” a senior engineer at First Light Fusion tells me, as we gaze at…
The race is on to replicate the power of the sun with fusion energy
The idea of fusion power has intrigued scientists for nearly 100 years, when they first discovered the process that powers…
A-Rod and Lore Back Fusion-Power Startup in Funding Round
Former baseball star Alex Rodriguez is backing a startup that’s trying to develop a power plant run off of nuclear…
SHINE Technologies: New name highlights technology competencies and multiple phase opportunities
SHINE Medical Technologies LLC today announced that the company has changed its name to SHINE Technologies LLC. SHINE’s new name highlights…
Fusion breakthrough dawns a new era for US energy and industry
The fusion age is upon us. This week, a major breakthrough was achieved in a key technology for commercial fusion power, and…
Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates
Fusion took a key step forward in its movement from the lab to commercial viability with the successful test of…
Fusion startup builds 10-foot-high, 20-tesla superconducting magnet
In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature,…
The Fusion Revolution
During the summer of 1985, I was a part of an engineering team at Los Alamos National Lab working on the…
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
On 8 August 2021, a laser-initiated experiment at the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Lawrence Livermore National…
Get Ready for the Nuclear Fusion Revolution
It sounds thoroughly implausible: a technology that could replicate the chemistry of the stars, unleash nearly unlimited clean energy and…
The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes?
Change takes energy. This is the basic problem at the root of civilization. It’s the reason we have become so…
National Ignition Facility experiment puts researchers at threshold of fusion ignition
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a…
Investors Get Serious About Nuclear Fusion, Energy’s Eternal Grail
The sun’s energy comes from tiny particles smashing into each other, fusing, and releasing heat in the process. Physicists tried…
Race to develop fusion power heats up
The half-century pursuit of commercial fusion power has reached a milestone with the shipment of supermagnets — the most powerful…
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
A start-up founded by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it is nearing a technological milestone that could…
Fusion power and public-private partnerships
As the debate continues in Washington about the best ways to create high-quality, family-sustaining jobs, strengthen our nation’s leadership as…
Fusion energy quest hots up at Deakin and HB11 Energy
Fusion energy has long been considered as a way forward for decarbonising energy production, but its vast complexity and expense…
Amanda Levete designs world’s first magnetised fusion power station for the UK
A prototype power plant designed by architect Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A with a nuclear fusion reactor is set to be built in Oxfordshire, England.
Company searching for ‘Holy Grail’ of energy in Everett
Gov. Jay Inslee was in attendance Tuesday morning as the fusion clean energy facility broke ground in Everett.
General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories partner to accelerate cleantech in Canada
Funded by a global syndicate of leading energy venture capital firms, industry leaders, and technology pioneers, General Fusion is working…
‘Every Little Bit Matters’ Isn’t Enough For Net Zero
This week is Net Zero Awareness week in the U.K. On the 27th June 2019, the U.K. became the first major economy in…
Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments
Nuclear fusion offers the potential for a safe, clean and abundant energy source. This process, which also occurs in the…
Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusion
Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is summarizing what might be considered a guiding philosophy behind designing and engineering fusion devices at MIT’s…
Congressman Beyer Talks Nuclear Fusion Energy at Town Hall
“You heard it here first,” quipped U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., who represents the 8th District of Virginia that…
A man-made sun that could power our planet is created by a British start-up in Oxfordshire – racing against Amazon and Lockheed Martin
Hundreds of times every month, a British scientist sitting in a high-tech control room in an industrial park in the Thames…
The case for funding fusion
Digital technologies have disrupted the structure of markets with unprecedented breadth and scale. Today, there is yet another wave of…
Potential Early Markets for Fusion Energy
We examine potential early markets for fusion energy and their projected cost targets, based on analysis and synthesis of many…
Long coming but slow to arrive, fusion energy approaches a milestone on path to commercial deployment
In an old brick garage on an industrial street in Cambridge. Mass., a team of physicists and engineers are getting…
China’s Fusion Research Is Heating Up
The hottest thing in the solar system is usually the Sun, with its core temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius…
The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up
An old joke about nuclear fusion—that it is 30 years away and always will be—is so well-known that The Economist’s science editor…