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Helion passes 100 million degrees Celsius
Fusion energy developer Helion Energy said yesterday it has become the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees…
UK Eyes 2025 Operation Date for Fusion Demo Plant as Powerful Magnet Heads to ITER
This week marked two major milestones for fusion energy. On June 15, San Diego-based General Atomics (GA) said it was…
Plans unveiled for private U.K. fusion reactor powered by ‘smoke rings’ and pneumatic pistons
A Canadian company, one of several betting on alternative approaches to fusion energy, announced today it will begin to build…
Bezos-Backed Fusion Startup Picks U.K. to Build First Plant
A nuclear fusion startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos will build its first pilot power plant outside of London, potentially accelerating…
Biden draws fire for DOE fusion plans
Fusion energy advocates in Congress and private industry are protesting the Energy Department’s lack of support for a pilot reactor…
It’s Time for Congress to Support Fusion Energy
The existential threat of the climate emergency poses perhaps the greatest danger to human health and prosperity we have ever…
U.K Serious About Fusion: New Report On Regulation Recommends Proportionate, Agile Approach
This week, on 1st June, the U.K. Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) published a report that set out how the UK can support the…
China maintains ‘artificial sun’ at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record
China broke the record by keeping the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by achieving plasma temperature at 120 million Celsius…
Science Committee Envisions Expanded DOE Office of Science
The House Science Committee has introduced a bipartisan bill that recommends Congress ramp up funding for the Department of Energy’s…
Commercially viable electricity from nuclear fusion a step closer thanks to British breakthrough
The dream of pollution and radiation-free electricity derived from nuclear fusion could be a step closer to reality thanks to…
Zap Energy Raises $27.5 Million to Advance Reactor Technology
Zap Energy, a pioneer in fusion energy technology, today announced that it has raised $27.5 million in Series B funding…
UK’s biggest Hyper Velocity Gas Gun is in Oxford
A GREEN energy researcher has installed the UK’s biggest ‘Two-Stage Hyper-Velocity Gas Gun’ in efforts to develop a simpler, faster,…
Amazing Tech Developed by Private Firms Are on the Verge of Creating Nuclear Fusion Reactors to Power Humanity
While industries are harnessing solar, hydro, and geothermal power to solve the world’s energy problems, it’s been thought by many…
IAEA Fusion Energy Conference attracts record participation
The 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC), which is being held on-line from 10-15 May, has attracted a record 3,400 attendees,…
Mind-boggling magnets could unlock plentiful power
Dr Greg Brittles’ eyes gleam with excitement when he explains the project he is working on. “It’s every engineer’s dream…
Fusion Industry Association Announces Independent Incorporation and Expansion
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) today officially incorporated as a newly independent non-profit association representing the private fusion industry. The…
Look inside this lab where scientists are recreating the energy of the sun to produce nearly unlimited clean energy
Recreating in a lab the nuclear reaction that powers the sun and other stars — which is called nuclear fusion — is…
Nuclear Fusion Is No Longer Science Fiction
Since scientists first demonstrated nuclear power 70 years ago, the second stage of nuclear power has remained just beyond our…
Shiny Happy Future: SHINE-Phoenix Merger Focused On Advancing Fusion Technology
A nuclear technology company and a medical isotopes company have merged. In fact, they’ve kind of re-merged, since they were founded…
DOE Pushes for Aggressive U.S. Investment in Fusion Energy
An influential Department of Energy (DOE) advisory committee has recommended that the nation move aggressively toward the deployment of fusion…
Commercializing Fusion Energy Won’t Take a ‘Moonshot
Solving climate change is the grand challenge of our time; the solutions proposed range from trillions of dollars in government…
Phoenix Receives $2.5 Million Contract from DOE for Fusion Energy Technology
Phoenix announced today that it has received a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement jointly awarded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science…
Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit…
With ‘smoke ring’ technology, fusion startup marks steady progress
A private company betting on an innovative fusion technology announced today that its latest device can sustain high temperatures for…
The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us Past Neptune in 10 Years
Scientists have outlined the wild way humans could travel past Neptune in under 10 years—with over 1.5 tons of cargo…
UK nuclear fusion firms make progress towards providing clean power
Two UK companies leading efforts to reproduce the way the sun makes energy are both on the way to hitting…
Is nuclear fusion the answer?
U.S. researchers have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction that created a net energy gain for the first time ever…
First Light gives it its best shot
First Light Fusion believes its new plant design for projectile-based inertial fusion, with a lower frequency of shots, but higher…
Academies urge public–private effort to build a pilot fusion-power plant
If fusion is to contribute to decarbonizing electricity generation by mid century, the US must begin to construct a grid-scale…
An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power development
Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says…
Hydrogen fusion startup HB11 Energy hits $4.8m in oversubscribed pre-seed raise
A Sydney-based company whose founders hope to crack the code of net positive energy gains from hydrogen fusion has vastly…
New Space Age hampered by old technology
The world is entering an exciting new Space Age. Where once the superpowers competed in a space race to the…
This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy
After Brandon Sorbom graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2010, he decided to take the “couple of thousand dollars”…
Japanese fusion reactor equipment startup bags $1m from Coral Capital, others
Kyoto Fusioneering, a Japanese startup developing equipment for the fusion reactor industry, said it has received 116 million yen (US$1.1…
The POWER Interview: ‘Dispatchable Power Through Commercial Fusion’
The goal of economic power generation from fusion has been elusive, but that hasn’t deterred researchers from exploring ways to…
Race is on to commercialize fusion energy
Fusion power is moving out of government-run science labs into the private sector. Catalyzed by the public-private partnership methods which…
Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it
In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder…
Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?
If all goes as planned, the US will eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity sector by 2035 –…
Clean nuclear: Oxford start-up 10 years ahead of government targets in race to build fusion plant
An Oxford start-up developing nuclear fusion technology has raised $25m (£19m) in fresh cash as it plots a “first-of-its-kind” plant…
U.K. And U.S. Race For Leadership On Fusion Power?
In a new report, the U.S. fusion research community has recommended the U.S. government move aggressively to deploy commercial fusion…
Could a small fusion power reactor in Oxfordshire hold the answer to the energy crisis?
Energy remains one of the most powerful forces in the world today. It is what destroys our environment and constrains the growth of…
How Nuclear Fusion is Revolutionizing Medical Isotope Production
Medical imaging procedures such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans, myocardial perfusion scans and bone scans are used to…
AL_A reveals plans for world’s first magnetised fusion power plant
Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A is partnering with Canadian energy company General Fusion to design a pioneering power plant that will use nuclear fusion. The…
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking…
Investments in privately funded fusion ventures grow`
The old adage is that fusion power is 30 years away and always will be. The timeline envisioned by the…
Fusion energy ‘four times cheaper than nuclear’
Inertial confinement fusion could deliver Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) as low as $25/MWh compared with $50/MWh for onshore wind…
The New Space Race Is Fusion Energy
Space is exciting. The idea of finding life elsewhere in the solar system or visiting another planet captures the imagination. Private companies…
Fusion energy needs smart federal government regulation
Creating new sources of sustainable, reliable and zero-carbon energy is a critical national security question and may prove to be…
Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment
Two and a half years ago, MIT entered into a research agreement with startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop…
Why Are Oil and Gas Companies Investing in Nuclear Fusion?
The oil industry’s search for carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels has led to many interesting investment decisions over the years…