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Record breaking run for DIII-D National Fusion Facility
The US DIII-D National Fusion Facility has completed a two-year research campaign, which included a record-breaking 1,600 hours of plasma research as part of 140 ground-breaking...
Russia’s NIIEFA tests Japanese component for ITER
Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) says a Japanese test assembly has completed testing for the International Thermonuclear...
Supercomputing and AI to create digital twin of STEP fusion power plant
Collaboration between the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge is underway to advance the development of the...
ITER delays update on project's timeline
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Council has postponed for a year any announcement on its updated timeline for the project but proposed a number of...
Focused Energy raises funds to advance laser fusion
Germany-based startup Focused Energy has raised an additional $11m in Series A funding, bringing total funding to $82m. Focused Energy, spun off from the Technical University of...
Transatlantic partnership to advance interstellar fusion travel
UK-based Pulsar Fusion has entered into a partnership with US Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS) to apply machine learning to study data from the Princeton field-reverse...
UKAEA awards contracts for fusion energy development
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded contracts worth £6.8m ($8.5m) in total to seven organisations to develop their innovative solutions and technologies to...
More US DOE funding for commercial fusion
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced US$46M in funding for eight companies proposing designs and research & development for fusion power plants. This funding from...
General Atomics and Tokamak Energy to collaborate on advancing high temperature superconducting magnet technologies
US-based General Atomics (GA) and UK-based Tokamak Energy Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaboration in the area of High Temperature Superconducting...
Doosan Enerbility ships pressuriser to ITER
South Korean company Doosan Enerbility has shipped a pressuriser to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in...
Proxima Fusion raises funds for fusion plant development
Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion says it has completed its Pre-Seed fundraising of €7m ($7.48m) to support fusion power plant development based on the stellarator concept....
First Light Fusion secures grant for ambitious five-year program
UK-based First Light Fusion, founded in 2011 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, has been awarded a £6m ($7.4m) grant from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research...
Kyoto Fusioneering secures more funding
Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) has raised JPY10.5bn ($79m) in an oversubscribed Series C funding round led by existing investor, JIC Venture Growth Investments. The round attracted...
UKAEA launches tritium training course
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has launched a new tritium training course as part of its commitment to upskill the fusion industry. Hydrogen isotopes tritium and...
FIA launches new report on supply chains
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA)’s new report, “The Fusion Industry Supply Chain: Opportunities and Challenges” is based on a survey of 27 private fusion companies and...
Russian scientists develop "smart" alloys for fusion reactors
Researchers at Russia’s NRNU MEPhI (National Research University - Moscow Power Engineering Institute) are investigating the accumulation of helium and deuterium in promising...
Helion announces first fusion energy purchase agreement with Microsoft
US fusion energy tech startup Helion Energy has signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power...
Tokamak Energy’s magnets to be tested at US Sandia Laboratories
UK-based Tokamak Energy in February announced that it had built the first set of new generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to be assembled and tested in fusion...
Jacobs to design maintenance systems for ITER
US-based Jacobs has been selected to design and engineer remotely-operated tools for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction...