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US Senate Passes ADVANCE Act, Including Legislation to Codify US Fusion Regulations

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Startups Gamble on Fusion Energy

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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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)