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U.S. researchers have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction that created a net energy gain for the first time ever. The breakthrough, initially reported by the Financial Times, marks a major milestone in the decades-long efforts to provide limitless energy without nuclear waste or carbon emissions. Here’s everything you need to know:

First Light Fusion believes its new plant design for projectile-based inertial fusion, with a lower frequency of shots, but higher fusion energy yield per shot, could result in an economically viable plant as small as 150MW. But the next key step, postponed from the end of 2019, is to achieve first fusion.

If fusion is to contribute to decarbonizing electricity generation by mid century, the US must begin to construct a grid-scale pilot fusion-power plant well before a self-sustaining fusion reaction is first achieved, says a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The report recommends that US researchers begin preparing multiple conceptual designs…

Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which also lays out for the first time a set of technical, economic, and regulatory standards and a timeline for a U.S. fusion…

A Sydney-based company whose founders hope to crack the code of net positive energy gains from hydrogen fusion has vastly exceeded expectations in a pre-seed fundraising, securing $4.8 million to fund research projects around the globe.