The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers,”… Read More
While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion… Read More
The nuclear fusion sector is hot. Maybe not 100 million degrees Celsius — which is the sort of mind-blowing temperature needed to make this futuristic power source possible — but… Read More
The news: General Fusion today announced $25 million in new funding and plans to build a demonstration machine in its home province of British Columbia. Fusion energy companies are attempting… Read More
Fusion startup ExoFusion today announced that it raised a seed round of an undisclosed amount. The company launched last year and is offering intellectual property and licensing of technology to… Read More
Funding news: The Seattle area’s Zap Energy will receive $5 million from a newly launched federal program supporting the commercial development of fusion power. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based… Read More
Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Helion plans to build the commercial facility in… Read More
The news: Micro-fusion startup Avalanche Energy announced a $40 million funding round on Monday. The Seattle-based company is developing a small-scale solution for fusion power, which is called clean energy’s… Read More
CTFusion, a spinoff from the University of Washington, has flipped off the reactor and folded up shop. But the startup’s expertise is not lost: three of its four co-founders have… Read More
U.S. physicists have accomplished a feat the world has pursued for more than 60 years: producing more energy from fusion than required to create the reaction. Called energy’s “holy grail,”… Read More
The Sun is the ultimate fusion machine, endlessly smashing atoms together and creating power. For decades, physicists have struggled to create fusion on Earth in a reliable, cost-effective manner. If… Read More
The news: Seattle-area startup Zap Energy is edging closer to the promise of fusion power. The company Wednesday announced two milestones: its newest prototype device has created plasma, a superheated… Read More
As Avalanche Energy founders Robin Langtry and Brian Riordan have been grinding through the development of their fusion technology, they keep expecting to hit a wall. The team is taking… Read More
The news: The fusion energy field just keeps getting hotter. British Columbia’s General Fusion on Tuesday said that it has raised $130 million in funding to develop its ambitious clean… Read More
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free energy has hovered just out of reach for scientists. At… Read More
Fusion energy company Helion raised a whopping $500 million, with the possibility of an additional $1.7 billion in funding if key milestones are achieved in the coming months and years.… Read More
Burnaby, B.C.-based General Fusion says it has closed on a $65 million equity financing round that will spark the launch of a program to design, construct and operate a demonstration… Read More
The Canadian government says it’s investing $37.5 million (49.3 million Canadian dollars) in General Fusion, a British Columbia company that aims to build a prototype plant powered by nuclear fusion.… Read More
TAE Technologies, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other heavy-hitters, is elevating Michl Binderbauer to CEO and bringing former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt onto… Read More
TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion energy company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has spawned a spinoff focusing on a novel type of cancer therapy. The spinoff, TAE Life Sciences,… Read More
A new entrant in the race to commercialize fusion energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, aims to capitalize on superconductor technology from MIT and $50 million from the Italian energy company Eni.… Read More
The promise of natural gas, shale oil, renewable energy and conventional nuclear power all pale in comparison to the promise of clean, potentially abundant fusion power — and that’s attracting… Read More
TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has exceeded the headline-grabbing performance of its previous machine. “This announcement… Read More
The world’s biggest and most expensive nuclear fusion research project, known as ITER, says it’s halfway done with the construction effort leading to the startup of its seven-story-high reactor in… Read More
TAE Technologies, the venture formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy, says it’s been admitted into a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputer program that should accelerate its drive to harness nuclear… Read More
Google has teamed up with nuclear fusion startup Tri Alpha Energy to bring artificial intelligence into the world of plasma research. High-energy plasma physics is an experimental field with lots… Read More
Tri Alpha Energy, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has achieved first plasma in its latest generator. The $100 million device at Tri Alpha’s… Read More
Hydrogen plasma was produced for the first time today in Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X fusion device, which has been called the “reactor designed in hell” as well as the “pretzel that… Read More
After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with an unorthodox concept for nuclear fusion power plants. The concept… Read More
Spoiler Alert! This post doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but it does explore a significant element of the new movie. Stop reading now if you want it to remain a surprise.… Read More
