Fusion in the News

The Cabinet Office of Japan announced on the 22nd that it will launch an industry council in March with approximately 50 participating companies aiming to realize fusion power generation. Research into nuclear fusion power generation is becoming more active, with startups appearing overseas aiming to realize it in the 2030s, and related companies in Japan are gathering to give momentum to development and market development.

Reuters covers 2024 FIA Annual Policy Conference.

Commercial nuclear fusion has gone from science fiction to science fact in less than a decade.

A Japanese startup with roots in Osaka University has drawn worldwide attention for its advances in laser-powered nuclear fusion, viewed as a next-generation clean energy source.

California-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted US engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation to design the world’s first commercial laser fusion power plant.

Trading house Itochu and telecom company SoftBank are investing in Blue Laser Fusion, a nuclear fusion startup in the U.S. headed by a Japanese Nobel Prize winner in physics that is developing a method for stable power generation using proprietary laser technology.

Type One Energy Group has announced plans to build a prototype stellarator nuclear fusion reactor at the TVA’s Bull Run Fossil Plant site in Clinton, Tennessee. The company could start construction of the fusion reactor, known as Infinity One, as early as 2025.

Op-ed by Ylli Bajraktari, President and CEO of Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

FIA member Thea Energy raises funding.

In its final experiments before being shut down for good last year, the UK’s JET reactor set a world record for the energy output of a fusion reaction.