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• Proxima Fusion funding round hits €411 million – Proxima’s new capital is meant to industrialize exactly this kind of complexity, moving coil production from single prototypes to Alpha-scale volumes (Image courtesy of Proxima) Proxima Fusion has closed a €411 million ($468 million) financing round, the largest private investment in European fusion history, pushing the German stellarator developer to a €2.4 billion valuation. For […]
• Levitated dipole fusion reactor clears neutron hurdle – A working levitated dipole confines plasma around a freestanding core magnet rather than the fixed coil structures used in tokamak designs (Image courtesy of OpenStar Technologies) Fusion company OpenStar Technologies has published a peer-reviewed study addressing the neutron shielding problem that has long excluded levitated dipole reactors from deuterium-tritium fuel cycle designs. It specifies two […]
• Thea Energy completes Amphion quench test and raises $100M – The circular, planar geometry of the Amphion coil is standardised across every shaping coil planned for Eos, enabling assembly-line production rather than the bespoke fabrication historically required for stellarator magnet systems (Image courtesy of Thea Energy) Thea Energy‘s first full-size, full-current, full-field planar shaping coil, the Amphion, reached a magnetic field above 6 T at […]
• What General Fusion’s LM26 paper reveals about compressional heating at scale – LM26’s 36-turn compression coil assembly surrounds the vacuum vessel where each lithium liner shot is conducted and characterised (Image courtesy of General Fusion) General Fusion has posted to arXiv the first full scientific account of plasma compression experiments on Lawson Machine 26, its large-scale magnetised target fusion device, submitted simultaneously for peer review. Across eleven […]
• WISER Stellarator launched to study reactor-relevant plasma conditions – The modular coil geometry visualized here is what WISER’s similarity-scaling principles must replicate at reduced scale to remain predictive of full-reactor behaviour (Image courtesy of E. Sánchez, CIEMAT) Stellarator development faces a problem tokamaks have not had to solve in the same way: no stellarator has ever operated at the combined field strength, scale, and […]
• Helion secures fusion power plant licences in a regulatory first for the industry – Orion’s Malaga site now operates under the first radiation licences issued anywhere for a fusion power plant (Image courtesy of Helion Energy) Helion Energy has become the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licences needed for a fusion power plant, following approval of a Radioactive Materials Licence and a Radioactive Air Emissions […]
• SEC clears General Fusion for shareholder vote on Nasdaq listing – LM26 operates at 50% of commercial-scale diameter, making it the largest MTF demonstration machine of its kind to have achieved plasma compression (Image courtesy of General Fusion) The SEC’s declaration of effectiveness for General Fusion’s joint registration statement removes a significant regulatory hurdle on the company’s path to what it expects to become the first […]
• DOE approves Xcimer’s Athena laser fusion power plant design and technology roadmap – Athena is engineered from the outset for continuous operation, with a facility footprint and systems integration reflecting the industrial scale requirements of a commercial laser fusion power plant rather than a scientific demonstration device (Image courtesy of Xcimer Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved Xcimer Energy‘s preconceptual design and technology development roadmap […]
• How the DOE fusion roadmap plans to close six critical gaps to the grid – Construction work at the CFS Devens facility, where SPARC’s magnet and vacuum vessel assemblies are progressing toward first plasma operations (Image courtesy of Commonwealth Fusion Systems) The U.S. Department of Energy has published its finalized Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap, setting out a national strategy for commercialising fusion energy by the mid-2030s. Built around a […]
• UK Fusion Energy planning framework opens for consultation – The UK’s draft fusion energy planning framework, EN-8, aims to give companies across the fusion sector the regulatory certainty to invest and scale (Image courtesy of Tokamak Energy) The UK government published EN-8, its draft National Policy Statement for Fusion Energy Generation, on June 8, 2026, opening a formal consultation that runs until August 17. […]