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• How plasma edge turbulence solves two fusion reactor design puzzles – New first-principles simulations of ASDEX Upgrade’s plasma edge turbulence now explain, without fitting to experiment, why this device already exhausts heat in the small continuous bursts a reactor needs (Image courtesy of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Photo: Jan Hosan) Two Physical Review Letters papers from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics explain […]
• Type One Energy licenses ORNL’s cryogenic pellet fuelling technology – Fuel cycle technology now moves from ORNL’s labs toward the pellet production rates commercial fusion reactors will require (Image courtesy of ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Photo: Alonda Hines) Type One Energy‘s stellarator ambitions at TVA’s Bull Run Energy Complex depend on solving a problem few outside the fuel cycle community track closely. Oak Ridge […]
• TAE Technologies signs prospective helium-3 supply agreement with Black Moon Energy – TAE’s helium-3 agreement with Black Moon Energy adds a further fuel option alongside its hydrogen-boron development programme (Image courtesy of TAE Technologies) TAE Technologies has signed a prospective helium-3 supply agreement with lunar-development company Black Moon Energy Corporation, adding a fuel option alongside the hydrogen-boron cycle TAE identifies as its preferred commercial fuel. For engineers […]
• Optics for laser-driven nuclear fusion – A cryogenically cooled deuterium-tritium fuel capsule used in NIF fusion experiments (Fig.1) (Image courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) The moment that changed the equation On December 5, 2022, the 192 beams of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory delivered 2.05 megajoules of ultraviolet laser light into a tiny holhraum roughly […]
• Pension and sovereign wealth funds join Commonwealth Fusion’s latest raise – The Devens campus now houses the industrial-scale infrastructure behind CFS’s $4 billion capital base, with SPARC assembly continuing inside as the company works toward first plasma (Image courtesy of Commonwealth Fusion Systems) Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion in equity financing on July 30, 2026, bringing its total capital to $4 billion. Pension funds and […]
• Tokamak Energy splits ST-E1 pilot and commercial power targets for the first time – The red and blue split in this ST-E1 cutaway is the design principle the whole collection is built around, permanent capital assets protected from the parts that get swapped out (Image courtesy of Tokamak Energy) Tokamak Energy has published the pre-concept design of its ST-E1 fusion power plant as an 11-paper Focus Collection in Nuclear […]
• Thea Energy wins ARPA-E award to scale modular HTS magnet manufacturing – Every layer of tape and every bolt in this coil has to be reproduced identically hundreds of times over for HTS magnet manufacturing to work as a factory process rather than a lab build (Image courtesy of Thea Energy) Thea Energy has won a $20 million ARPA-E SCALEUP award that the company says will fund […]
• General Fusion Nasdaq listing secures $150M as oversubscribed PIPE offsets redemptions – LM26’s coils and diagnostics were built years before the PIPE that now funds their next milestone (Image courtesy of General Fusion) The General Fusion Nasdaq listing went live on July 13, 2026, closing a reverse merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III and making General Fusion the first pure-play public fusion company. The combined entity […]
• 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 […]