In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke has joined the company’s cap table.
If all goes as planned, the US will eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity sector by 2035 – an ambitious goal set by President-elect Joe Biden, relying in large part on a sharp increase in wind and solar energy generation. That plan may soon get a boost from nuclear fusion, a powerful technology…
An Oxford start-up developing nuclear fusion technology has raised $25m (£19m) in fresh cash as it plots a “first-of-its-kind” plant to be ready well ahead of government targets
In a new report, the U.S. fusion research community has recommended the U.S. government move aggressively to deploy commercial fusion power as a key technology in the fight against climate change.
Energy remains one of the most powerful forces in the world today. It is what destroys our environment and constrains the growth of nations. In modern times, the politics of energy has driven us to war and provoked an entirely new political class,
Medical imaging procedures such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans, myocardial perfusion scans and bone scans are used to diagnose issues such as heart disease and cancer, and deliver lifesaving treatment to tens of thousands of patients every day around the world. But the material that makes these procedures possible — a radioactive isotope…
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 prototype plant will act as a demonstration facility for the technology, which uses hydrogen as fuel, with onsite facilities for experts and the general public to visit.
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a new vision for achieving practical fusion energy. This approach, known as the high-field pathway to fusion, aims to generate fusion in compact devices on a shorter timescale and lower…
The old adage is that fusion power is 30 years away and always will be. The timeline envisioned by the international collaboration for ITER—the colossal, $25 billion–plus reactor under construction in France—is only a little shorter than that. Attaining the first sustained fusion reaction, or burning plasma, is scheduled to occur in 2035 at the earliest….
Inertial confinement fusion could deliver Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) as low as $25/MWh compared with $50/MWh for onshore wind and $100/MWh for nuclear energy, according to new research published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.