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Fusion Supply Chain Spending Almost Doubles in 2024, According to Fusion Industry Association

The Fusion Industry: Supply Chain 2025

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

PRESS RELEASE: 5 Lakes Institute Launches Great Lakes Fusion Energy Alliance

5 Lakes Institute

Fusion Energy Momentum Highlighted at Ministerial Meeting Hosted by IAEA and Italy

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Report: Fusion Power: Enabling 21st Century American Dominance

Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy

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Dominick Bindl, Vice President of Technical Development, Realta Fusion

Fusion Starts Here: Wisconsin’s Bold Leap Into Clean Energy

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC)

Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments.

Physicists re-create forgotten experiment observing fusion

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos)

NJ HAX Plasma Forge, 11th Strategic Innovation Center in state, is created

Business in New Jersey (BINJE)

UW-Madison spinoff Type One Energy achieves milestone for fusion power plant

University of Wisconsin (UW-Madison)

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

US company reaches critical turning point in journey to build nearly limitless energy device: ‘Provides a sound foundation’

No one has made fusion power viable yet. Why is Big Tech investing billions?

The Washington Post

Birthing a Star to Save a Planet

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

The team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

US Laboratory Team Leader Wins IAEA Nuclear Fusion Prize for 2024

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Tengming Shen (left) and Laura Garcia Fajardo work on a new high-temperature superconducting magnet design at Berkeley Lab.

The Technologies Fueling the Future of Fusion

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

The Coordinating Committee of the International Tokamak Physics Activity, January 2025

Commonwealth Fusion Systems joins the ITPA

The Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies (LMNT)

New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

From moonshots to megawatts: Fusion’s Cold War moment

The Fusion Industry: Supply Chain 2025

Fusion Supply Chain Spending Almost Doubles in 2024, According to Fusion Industry Association

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Fusion energy surges in Great Lakes region

Nuclear Newswire

A rendering of the Commonwealth Fusion Systems nuclear fusion plant proposed to be built in Chesterfield. The company recently filed a request for zoning approval of the project.

Commonwealth Fusion files formal zoning request for power plant in Chesterfield

Richmond BuzSence

Patterns etched into silicon are often made with plasmas.

A faster, more reliable method for simulating the plasmas used to make computer chips

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output

VIDEO: Here’s how fusion energy could power your home or an AI data center

Steven Cowley, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Microsoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research

‘The nuclear renaissance’: Wisconsin lawmakers discuss pro-nuclear energy bills

Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR)

Fusion is the tech that could power AI and save the planet—if it ever works

PRESS RELEASE: 5 Lakes Institute Launches Great Lakes Fusion Energy Alliance

5 Lakes Institute

A fusion power plant prototype is already being built outside Boston. How long until unlimited clean energy is real?

Avalanche’s fusion machine at the Pacific Northwest Energy Summit in July of 2024

Seattle-area company set to launch fusion test facility in north Richland

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

Celebrating First 100 Days of Accomplishments

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC)

Fusion Energy Week

For Fusion Energy Week, plasma physics hits the town

American Physical Society (APS)

NIF

Fusion must be a national priority for the future of US energy security

NIF’s preamplifier modules

How NIF Works

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Artists impression of inertial fusion energy using lasers

Will Fusion Solve Our Energy Problems?

Columbia University in the City of New York

SA masthead

Fusion Energy Needs Continued U.S. Leadership to Secure Our Energy Future

Scientific American

The interior of the DIII-D tokamak.

Good News for Fusion Energy Workforce Development in San Diego

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

The Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville that works on developing materials that can withstand the extreme temperatures and pressures needed for nuclear fusion.

Fusion energy: Pathway to abundant power

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Get Ready for the Stellarator Showdown

Rick Cross works on the Titan compressor system at the Jupiter Laser Facility.

A brighter future for the Jupiter Laser Facility

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Knoxville company papers show ‘no scientific barriers’ to fusion power plant

Knoxville News Sentinel

Participants gather in PPPL’s Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium for one of the many conference presentations.

International conference of plasma experts discuss space and fusion physics

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

The new center will help address global energy challenges, contribute to sustainable climate solutions, and create a new industry and associated employment.

Columbia Engineering Launches the Columbia Fusion Research Center

Columbia University in the City of New York

Six gas valves, shown here as yellow-pink puffs, provided the most effective cooling in highly sophisticated computer models created using a PPPL computer code known as M3D-C1.

Simulations showed that six valves provided the ideal setup for rapidly dispersing cooling gas

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone

What if it Works Podcast: The race to fusion with Dennis Whyte

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)

Midwest Moxie Podcast: Harnessing the power of the sun: Kieran Furlong

The elephant in the room for energy tech? Uncertainty.

MIT Technology Review

National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade

An intricate jigsaw puzzle: Pre‑fitting components of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade before reassembly

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Computing infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

General Atomics and UC San Diego Launch Fusion Data Science and Digital Engineering Center

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

VIDEO: Fusion energy: Unlocking the power of the stars

Liquid Lithium

VIDEO: The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy

How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge

200-year-old prediction of Fourier confirmed in extreme plasmas for the first time

University of Nevada, Reno

DOE funds UK research on critical materials for commercial fusion energy

University of Kentucky (UK)