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Nuclear Fusion Is No Longer Science Fiction
Since scientists first demonstrated nuclear power 70 years ago, the second stage of nuclear power has remained just beyond our…
Shiny Happy Future: SHINE-Phoenix Merger Focused On Advancing Fusion Technology
A nuclear technology company and a medical isotopes company have merged. In fact, they’ve kind of re-merged, since they were founded…
DOE Pushes for Aggressive U.S. Investment in Fusion Energy
An influential Department of Energy (DOE) advisory committee has recommended that the nation move aggressively toward the deployment of fusion…
Commercializing Fusion Energy Won’t Take a ‘Moonshot
Solving climate change is the grand challenge of our time; the solutions proposed range from trillions of dollars in government…
Phoenix Receives $2.5 Million Contract from DOE for Fusion Energy Technology
Phoenix announced today that it has received a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement jointly awarded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science…
Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit…
With ‘smoke ring’ technology, fusion startup marks steady progress
A private company betting on an innovative fusion technology announced today that its latest device can sustain high temperatures for…
The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us Past Neptune in 10 Years
Scientists have outlined the wild way humans could travel past Neptune in under 10 years—with over 1.5 tons of cargo…
UK nuclear fusion firms make progress towards providing clean power
Two UK companies leading efforts to reproduce the way the sun makes energy are both on the way to hitting…
Is nuclear fusion the answer?
U.S. researchers have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction that created a net energy gain for the first time ever…
First Light gives it its best shot
First Light Fusion believes its new plant design for projectile-based inertial fusion, with a lower frequency of shots, but higher…
Academies urge public–private effort to build a pilot fusion-power plant
If fusion is to contribute to decarbonizing electricity generation by mid century, the US must begin to construct a grid-scale…
An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power development
Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says…
Hydrogen fusion startup HB11 Energy hits $4.8m in oversubscribed pre-seed raise
A Sydney-based company whose founders hope to crack the code of net positive energy gains from hydrogen fusion has vastly…
New Space Age hampered by old technology
The world is entering an exciting new Space Age. Where once the superpowers competed in a space race to the…
This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy
After Brandon Sorbom graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2010, he decided to take the “couple of thousand dollars”…
Japanese fusion reactor equipment startup bags $1m from Coral Capital, others
Kyoto Fusioneering, a Japanese startup developing equipment for the fusion reactor industry, said it has received 116 million yen (US$1.1…
The POWER Interview: ‘Dispatchable Power Through Commercial Fusion’
The goal of economic power generation from fusion has been elusive, but that hasn’t deterred researchers from exploring ways to…
Race is on to commercialize fusion energy
Fusion power is moving out of government-run science labs into the private sector. Catalyzed by the public-private partnership methods which…
Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it
In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder…
Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?
If all goes as planned, the US will eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity sector by 2035 –…
Clean nuclear: Oxford start-up 10 years ahead of government targets in race to build fusion plant
An Oxford start-up developing nuclear fusion technology has raised $25m (£19m) in fresh cash as it plots a “first-of-its-kind” plant…
U.K. And U.S. Race For Leadership On Fusion Power?
In a new report, the U.S. fusion research community has recommended the U.S. government move aggressively to deploy commercial fusion…
Could a small fusion power reactor in Oxfordshire hold the answer to the energy crisis?
Energy remains one of the most powerful forces in the world today. It is what destroys our environment and constrains the growth of…
How Nuclear Fusion is Revolutionizing Medical Isotope Production
Medical imaging procedures such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans, myocardial perfusion scans and bone scans are used to…
AL_A reveals plans for world’s first magnetised fusion power plant
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…
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking…
Investments in privately funded fusion ventures grow`
The old adage is that fusion power is 30 years away and always will be. The timeline envisioned by the…
Fusion energy ‘four times cheaper than nuclear’
Inertial confinement fusion could deliver Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) as low as $25/MWh compared with $50/MWh for onshore wind…
The New Space Race Is Fusion Energy
Space is exciting. The idea of finding life elsewhere in the solar system or visiting another planet captures the imagination. Private companies…
Fusion energy needs smart federal government regulation
Creating new sources of sustainable, reliable and zero-carbon energy is a critical national security question and may prove to be…
Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment
Two and a half years ago, MIT entered into a research agreement with startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop…
Why Are Oil and Gas Companies Investing in Nuclear Fusion?
The oil industry’s search for carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels has led to many interesting investment decisions over the years…
Oil major Chevron invests in nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy
Oil major Chevron Corp CVX.N said on Wednesday it is investing in Zap Energy Inc, joining Italy’s ENI ENI.MI and Norwegian state oil company…
Focus fusion is the hottest idea in nuclear energy
Realizing nuclear fusion as a practical energy source poses enormous challenges owing to the extreme physical conditions required by the…
Fusion Energy Innovation: Accelerated Progress in 2020
The world has a major problem to solve. By 2040, we will need 29 trillion KWh of new energy generation…
These Tiny Neutron Generators Could Pave the Way for Fusion
The Madison, Wisconsin-based startup Phoenix has scouted a team of nuclear elites for a new frontier: small reactors that can revolutionize medical imaging, munitions…
The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy
The modern quest for Promethean fire is underway in an anonymous office park in Foothill Ranch, California, an hour southeast…
Bill Gates And Big Oil Are Chasing The Nuclear Fusion Dream
The decades-old debate over nuclear fusion vs. fission is on the edge of a breakthrough as startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems wins over…
Fusion Energy Is Coming, and Maybe Sooner Than You Think
When British physicist Arthur Stanley Eddington first proposed in the 1920s that the sun and stars were powered by the…
Fusion: Efforts to harness ‘star power’ gain ground
Scientists, private companies, investors and governments are all growing more confident that smaller-scale fusion energy power systems are closer to…
Energy launches grant to research nuclear fusion power
Champions of nuclear power in the 1950s predicted it would be too cheap to meter. That didn’t work out. But…
Can Mass. launch the fusion revolution?
Since the 1950s physicists have researched something they knew was theoretically possible but technically challenging: the effective generation of fusion energy…
More Federal Interest in Private Fusion: DOE Seeks Input on Possible Cost Share Program to Support Private Fusion Energy Companies
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a formal Request for Information (“RFI”)[1] seeking input from all interested stakeholders regarding a…
Hydrogen-boron fusion could be a dream come true
The various fields of science and technology are so closely connected that a breakthrough in one area can rapidly trigger…
Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States
In an ambitious push to develop and implement nuclear fusion power, a team of 300 researchers just published a massive…
Billionaires Chasing Fusion Energy Face a Credibility Test
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Peter Thiel beware. There could be a shakeup on the horizon among the billionaire-backed companies…
Why the UK may hold the secret to providing the world with limitless energy
Nick Hawker is standing inches away from a gun that can fire bullets at 33,500mph. “Let’s just say, it wouldn’t…
Fusion Startups Step In to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream
If Nick Hawker’s computer models are right, the snap of a pistol shrimp’s claw holds the secret to boundless clean…
5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality
Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away…and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first…