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China has completed the construction of the HL-2M tokamak fusion reactor at...
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Andreas Lusch joins First Light Fusion
UK-based First Light Fusion has appointed Andreas Lusch as a non-executive director.
Civil engineering complete for Iter tokamak building
The final concrete has been poured for the upper part of the Tokamak Complex that will house the fusion machine of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor at Cadarache...
More UK funding for fusion
The UK Government last week announced £220 million ($271m) of funding over the next four years towards the design of a commercially viable fusion power station.
Contact for ITER tokamak assembly
The ITER Organization has awarded a €200 million contract for Tokamak Assembly to DYNAMIC, a consortium comprising Ansaldo Nucleare, Endel Engie, Orys Group ORTEC, SIMIC, Leading...
Spain’s GDES wins Iter contract
Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union (EU) organisation managing Europe’s contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) under construction in...
EIB funding for Italian fusion project
The European Investment Bank (EIB) confirmed it will lend €250m ($273.8m) of funding for research into fusion energy in Italy.
UKAEA to open new fusion test facility
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announced last week that is will open a £22 million ($27.3m) fusion energy research facility in Rotherham in 2020 to engage industry in...
Boris Johnson visits Culham
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire on 8 August, the same day he announced that the UK would change rules to allow for fast-track visas...
New fusion support facility inaugurated in Croatia
A dual ion beam facility, which enables two ion beams from different accelerators to be combined simultaneously, has been inaugurated in Zagreb. The facility strengthens Croatia’s...
Thailand looks to fusion
The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is partnering with Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (Tint) to construct a fusion reactor, the Bangkok...
China plans fusion research centre
Chinese authorities have approved a project to create a national centre for thermonuclear research at the Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Two year reprieve for JET as Brexit uncertainty continues
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced on 29 March that a contract extension for the Joint European Torus...
Fusion progress in UK and South Korea
First Light Fusion, which was spun out of the University of Oxford in 2011 to research energy generation using inertial fusion, has completed construction and testing of its Machine...
UK fusion project receives government funding
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and First Light Fusion, Oxford University’s fusion spin-out, are collaborating on the ‘Fusion Island’ project, which is partly funded by a grant...
More fusion progress at China’s EAST tokamak
China’s Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced on its website on 13 November that the Experimental Advanced...
Assystem wins agreement from UK Atomic Energy Authority
Nuclear engineering company Assystem has been awarded a major, multi-discipline design framework agreement to support United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) fusion...
Canada invests in fusion
The Canadian government has announced a CAD49.3 million ($37.5m) investment in General Fusion. The funding will help General Fusion create technology and support its project to develop...
Successful test shot for Oxford inertial confinement fusion company
Oxford-based First Light Fusion (FLF), which is researching a number of alternative research directions to develop inertial confinement fusion ICF) for energy generation, announced on...
New record results for German stellerator
Scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) on 25 June reported a new record performance at the Wendelstein 7-X stellerator, which began operation in...
