Author: Carolyn

Nuclear fusion might be one of the most valuable tools humans will develop to battle climate change—but will we all be underwater by the time it gets here?

UK fusion company Tokamak Energy has signed a framework agreement with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to collaborate on developing spherical tokamaks.

Fusion energy businesses obtained $2.83 billion in new financing in the last year, an increase of 139% from 2021, according to the second annual survey from the Fusion Industry Association (FIA). This data shows the industry is becoming more optimistic that fusion power will be accessible to the grid by the 2030s, according to the FIA.

For decades, the answer to when fusion power would arrive was like the punchline to an oft-repeated joke — it was always 10 or 20 years away. Now, it might actually be on the cusp of commercialization.

Seattle-based Zap Energy is to investigate the feasibility of piloting a fusion reactor to transition a coal power station from fossil fuels.

The United States government is putting a sizable amount of money behind private sector nuclear fusion companies for the first time in the latest sign of how momentum is building behind the “holy grail” of clean energy.

The U.S government has announced it will provide up to $50 million as a reward to private nuclear fusion firms to develop this near-limitless, clean form of energy.

Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hotter and compete with tokamaks

A sustained, stable experiment is the latest demonstration that nuclear fusion is moving from being a physics problem to an engineering one

In this round-up we explore all the latest developments on the road to commercial power production from fusion reactors.