China’s ‘artificial sun’ shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds

Live Science Jan. 21, 2025 A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor on Jan. 15, 2025 in China. (Image credit: Zhang Dagang/VCG via Getty Images) China‘s “artificial sun” … Read more

DOE National Laboratory Makes History by Achieving Fusion Ignition

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)—a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making. energy.gov December 13, 2022 For First Time, Researchers Produce More Energy from Fusion Than Was Used to Drive It, Promising Further Discovery … Read more

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

David Chandler | MIT News Office September 8, 2021 New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power. t was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped … Read more

General Fusion to build its Fusion Demonstration Plant in the UK, at the UKAEA Culham Campus

General Fusion New partnership between General Fusion and UKAEA is a landmark collaboration in the development of fusion, a technology for the world’s low-carbon future VANCOUVER, Canada and LONDON, United Kingdom (17th June 2021 BST): The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and General Fusion have announced an agreement under which General Fusion will build and … Read more

China Just Turned On Its Artificial Sun

China Just Turned On Its Artificial Sun

It’s go time for the Far East’s most formidable fusion reactor. Popular Mechanics By Caroline Delbert | Dec 4, 2020 China has switched on its HL-2M EAST tokamak for its first planned full-strength fusion. EAST, an “artificial sun,” is global peers with ITER and hopes to reach some of the same milestones. No tokamak reactor … Read more

General Fusion broadens global government support with U.S. Department of Energy award

General Fusion broadens global government support with U.S. Department of Energy award

VANCOUVER, Canada (8 September 2020): General Fusion has been awarded a funding partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fusion Energy Science’s new Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program, recognizing General Fusion as a global leader on the path to commercializing practical fusion. General Fusion will partner with the Princeton Plasma Physics … Read more

General Fusion Closes $65M of Series E Financing

Funding Enables the Company’s Fusion Demonstration Plant VANCOUVER, Canada – General Fusion announced that it has successfully closed USD$65 million of Series E equity financing. The financing was led by Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. This USD$65 million of new financing, together with the release of CAD$50 million in additional investment from … Read more

How This Unconventional Oxford Startup Plans To Win The Fusion Energy Race

Forbes by Gemma Milne | Aug. 29, 2019 First Light Fusion’s Machine 3 in their Oxford-based laboratory First Light Fusion Fusion energy startup First Light Fusion is working towards demonstrating “first fusion” before the end of the year, in their Oxford-based laboratory. If they succeed, they join only a few companies and research groups on … Read more