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Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream
Long-shot money is flowing into start-ups that seek the energy of the stars. Driving the investments is a rising alarm…
UK government publishes fusion strategy
The UK government on 1 October published a strategy setting out how it aims to leverage scientific, commercial and international…
Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
Let’s say that you’ve devoted your entire adult life to developing a carbon-free way to power a household for a…
Clean energy from the fastest moving objects on earth
“You might want to cover your ears,” a senior engineer at First Light Fusion tells me, as we gaze at…
The race is on to replicate the power of the sun with fusion energy
The idea of fusion power has intrigued scientists for nearly 100 years, when they first discovered the process that powers…
A-Rod and Lore Back Fusion-Power Startup in Funding Round
Former baseball star Alex Rodriguez is backing a startup that’s trying to develop a power plant run off of nuclear…
SHINE Technologies: New name highlights technology competencies and multiple phase opportunities
SHINE Medical Technologies LLC today announced that the company has changed its name to SHINE Technologies LLC. SHINE’s new name highlights…
Fusion breakthrough dawns a new era for US energy and industry
The fusion age is upon us. This week, a major breakthrough was achieved in a key technology for commercial fusion power, and…
Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates
Fusion took a key step forward in its movement from the lab to commercial viability with the successful test of…
Fusion startup builds 10-foot-high, 20-tesla superconducting magnet
In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature,…
The Fusion Revolution
During the summer of 1985, I was a part of an engineering team at Los Alamos National Lab working on the…
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
On 8 August 2021, a laser-initiated experiment at the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Lawrence Livermore National…
Get Ready for the Nuclear Fusion Revolution
It sounds thoroughly implausible: a technology that could replicate the chemistry of the stars, unleash nearly unlimited clean energy and…
The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes?
Change takes energy. This is the basic problem at the root of civilization. It’s the reason we have become so…
National Ignition Facility experiment puts researchers at threshold of fusion ignition
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a…
Investors Get Serious About Nuclear Fusion, Energy’s Eternal Grail
The sun’s energy comes from tiny particles smashing into each other, fusing, and releasing heat in the process. Physicists tried…
Race to develop fusion power heats up
The half-century pursuit of commercial fusion power has reached a milestone with the shipment of supermagnets — the most powerful…
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
A start-up founded by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it is nearing a technological milestone that could…
Fusion power and public-private partnerships
As the debate continues in Washington about the best ways to create high-quality, family-sustaining jobs, strengthen our nation’s leadership as…
Fusion energy quest hots up at Deakin and HB11 Energy
Fusion energy has long been considered as a way forward for decarbonising energy production, but its vast complexity and expense…
Amanda Levete designs world’s first magnetised fusion power station for the UK
A prototype power plant designed by architect Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A with a nuclear fusion reactor is set to be built in Oxfordshire, England.
Company searching for ‘Holy Grail’ of energy in Everett
Gov. Jay Inslee was in attendance Tuesday morning as the fusion clean energy facility broke ground in Everett.
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…
‘Every Little Bit Matters’ Isn’t Enough For Net Zero
This week is Net Zero Awareness week in the U.K. On the 27th June 2019, the U.K. became the first major economy in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The case for funding fusion
Digital technologies have disrupted the structure of markets with unprecedented breadth and scale. Today, there is yet another wave of…
Potential Early Markets for Fusion Energy
We examine potential early markets for fusion energy and their projected cost targets, based on analysis and synthesis of many…
Long coming but slow to arrive, fusion energy approaches a milestone on path to commercial deployment
In an old brick garage on an industrial street in Cambridge. Mass., a team of physicists and engineers are getting…
China’s Fusion Research Is Heating Up
The hottest thing in the solar system is usually the Sun, with its core temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius…
The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up
An old joke about nuclear fusion—that it is 30 years away and always will be—is so well-known that The Economist’s science editor…
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…