FIA Writes Letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

FIA Writes Letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

On July 30, the Fusion Industry Association wrote to Margie Doane, the Executive Director of Operations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to make clear the industry’s official stance on how the United States should ensure a safe, efficient, and secure fusion energy regulation framework. The letter was sent in CC is Chairman Hanson, Commissioner…

Fusion Event: FIA/ARPA-E Capability Teams “Lighting Round” Event

Fusion Event: FIA/ARPA-E Capability Teams “Lighting Round” Event

On July 22, ARPA-E and Fusion Industry Association co-hosted a virtual Lightning Round. The event consisted of three sessions with Capability Teams funded by ARPA-E giving short presentations to the FIA Membership. The event provided an efficient way for FIA members to receive information about the teams and capabilities, and ask questions and make connections…

FIA Disappointed Bipartisan Infrastructure Package Excludes Fusion Financing

FIA Disappointed Bipartisan Infrastructure Package Excludes Fusion Financing

On Wednesday, July 28, the Senate voted to move in a bipartisan way to debate passage of an infrastructure package. The Fusion Industry Association and its member companies have made a clear case to Congress that supporting fusion energy is not just an investment in the future. Investing in fusion will create new, good jobs…

General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories partner to accelerate cleantech in Canada

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 with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in a vital project to advance fusion energy technology. Through this collaboration, General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories will develop tritium extraction techniques for use in commercial fusion power plants.

Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments

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 sun, involves plasmas, fluids composed of charged particles, being heated to extremely high temperatures so that the atoms fuse together, releasing abundant energy.

Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusion

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 Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). Beginning in 1972 with the Alcator A tokamak, through Alcator C (1978) and Alcator C-Mod (1991), the PSFC has used magnets with high fields to confine the hot plasma…

Congressman Beyer Talks Nuclear Fusion Energy at Town Hall

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 includes the City of Falls Church. In a telephone town hall with constituents Monday that covered an amazingly wide range of topics over the course of just an hour, Beyer’s breaking news exclamation was in…

A man-made sun that could power our planet is created by a British start-up in Oxfordshire – racing against Amazon and Lockheed Martin

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 Valley near Didcot clicks his computer mouse.