Fusion News

J.D. Power Power Reliability Shows Improvement; Communications about Outages Is Key COSTA MESA, Calif.: 13 July 2016 — Although customer-reported monthly electric bills have fallen to their lowest levels in 10 years and overall satisfaction is on the rise, electric utility providers continue to struggle to match other industries in customer satisfaction, according to the … Read more

issues.org Winter, 2016 by Ray Rothrock A venture capitalist takes on fusion energy I am a venture capitalist and have been for 27 years. Trained in nuclear engineering in the 1970s, I worked in that profession until 1988, when I joined Venrock, the private venture partnership of the Rockefeller family. Since then, I’ve learned a … Read more

Next Big Future May 20, 2016 Tri Alpha Energy, nuclear fusion startup, has raised $500 million. Tri Alpha’s setup borrows some of the principles of high-energy particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider, to fire beams of plasma into a central vessel where the fusion reaction takes place. Last August the company said it … Read more

inverse.com Kastalia Medrano | May 20, 2016 Can a handful of startups win the race to market nuclear fusion – at a fraction of the cost of government-funded projects? Tri Alpha Energy, a Southern California fusion startup, just raised nearly $500,000 to try to make fusion power a reality. Funded by heavyweights like Goldman Sachs … Read more

PPPL By John Greenwald | May 19, 2016 U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will dedicate the newest U.S. fusion facility of the 21st century on Friday, May 20, at the DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The $94-million upgrade to the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX-U), four … Read more

technolgy review by Richard Martin May 20, 2016 A startup in California has raised $500 million to chase the elusive dream of fusion power. Is this crazy, or is the company on to something? No energy technology is more tantalizing than fusion, but no energy technology has proved more disappointing. So how has a fusion … Read more

PSFC-MIT May 10, 2016 Prof. Miklos Porkolab Paul Rivenberg Professor of Physics Miklos Porkolab was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) at the 187tth meeting of the General Assembly of the Academy in Budapest, on May 2, 2016. Founded in 1825, the prestigious HAS is the oldest institution devoted to … Read more

WNN 18 May 2016 The two biggest tanks for the Iter fusion reactor’s cryoplant have been completed in the Czech Republic. An exceptional convoy will be required to transport them to the Iter construction site in southern France. The quench tanks measure 35 meters in length, 4.5 meters in diameter and weighing about 160 tonnes. … Read more

cosmos 26 APR 2016 Fusion power is such a huge, potentially game-changing technology that it’s easy to get swept up in its utopian promise. Equally, it’s easy to dismiss the whole shebang as a wild fantasy that will never come to pass. Here’s what you need to know to help keep pace with developments in … Read more