Nick Hawker is standing inches away from a gun that can fire bullets at 33,500mph. “Let’s just say, it wouldn’t end well if somebody got hit,” he laughs. This is the fastest railgun in Europe; a 40ft (12 metre) pulsed-power machine capable of discharging up to 200,000 volts – the equivalent of 500 simultaneous lightning…
The Trump Administration has proposed dramatic cuts in fusion research. The FIA is disappointed and will work with Congress to undo this.
If Nick Hawker’s computer models are right, the snap of a pistol shrimp’s claw holds the secret to boundless clean energy. Mr. Hawker’s company, First Light Fusion, is one of around two dozen startups chasing the dream of generating electricity by squeezing atoms together.
Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away…and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first observed deuterium atoms fusing and releasing dollops of energy, it may finally be time to update the punch line.
On March 2-3, the FIA will participate in a Royal Society meeting on inertial fusion energy in London. Details and registration enclosed.
He built a fortune on the lunchbox favourite Capri Sun and now one Swiss billionaire hopes to harness the power of the sun again, by building a nuclear fusion reactor in rural Oxfordshire
Join the FIA on March 4 for a breakfast discussion in London about prospects for commercial fusion
A fusion energy startup backed by Jeff Bezos just closed a $65 million funding round, led by the massive Singapore-based investment firm, Temasek.
On Thursday, November 21, the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) sent a letter, signed by 15 member companies, to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee advocating for two public-private partnership programs for fusion energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Based upon previously established programs for R&D with federal agencies, FIA believes this approach utilizes the best…
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with “plasma guns” in the hope of achieving controlled nuclear fusion—a source of clean and near limitless energy.