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Energy Department Announces Organizational Realignment to Strengthen Efficiency and Unleash American Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Energy Department Announces Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap to Accelerate Commercial Fusion Power

Build Innovate Grow

Department of Energy (DOE)

Over $2.5 Billion Invested in Fusion Industry in Past Year

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Report: Fusion Power: Enabling 21st Century American Dominance

Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy

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The University of Wisconsin Madison Helically Symmetric eXperiment

Unique university experiment empowers the future of fusion

University of Wisconsin (UW-Madison)

Members of a team that demonstrated direct artificial intelligence (AI) control over high-repetition-rate laser experiments at the UCLA Phoenix Laser Laboratory

Using AI for Real-Time Control of Rapid-Fire Lasers

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Reuters

Fusion energy industry presses US government for billions in support

White House

FIA Sends Letter to U.S. Department of Energy on FY27 Budget

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Energy Department Announces Organizational Realignment to Strengthen Efficiency and Unleash American Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

China Built the Solar Century; The Fusion Century Can Still Be Ours

The National Interest

KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio

AUDIO: Booming Podcast – Can the power of a star lower our electric bills?

KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio

Experiments in the lab of Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Beg is coleading one of two teams of UC researchers awarded $4 million to research fusion energy.

UC awards $8M to help solve fusion energy challenges

Nuclear Newswire

Can this Mass. startup solve the riddle of fusion power?

US startup’s fusion energy device hits record plasma pressure rivaling Earth’s crust

Interesting Engineering (IE)

Don’t Say ‘Nuclear’: Commonwealth Fusion CEO Seeks to Rebrand

The new POSEIDON ion beam accelerator inside the PISCES lab at UC San Diego.

Upgraded UC San Diego Facility Accelerates Efforts to Develop Materials for Fusion Reactor Walls

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Powering up the Midwest

In Business Madison

Should California financially contribute to the nuclear fusion industry?

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Stars and stripes

FIA Publishes Paper on $10 Billion for Fusion to Secure America’s Energy and AI Future

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Secretary Chris Wright on Seizing the Fusion Moment

VIDEO: AI+ Fusion Summit with the United States Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright

Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Fusion Energy in 2025: Six Global Trends to Watch

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Capital Hill

Fusion Advanced Manufacturing Parity Act Introduced in U.S. Congress

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

How a Boom in Fusion Companies Could Speed Up the ‘Energy of the Future’

Why the AI Industry Is Betting on a Fusion Energy Breakthrough

VIDEO: Inside the race for fusion energy: Commonwealth Fusion CEO on powering the future of AI

San Diego

Study: CA’s $125B fusion energy potential could support 40K jobs, power the future

San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC)

Wisconsin High-field Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM) experiment overhead view.

How three Madison researchers broke ground in the fusion world

The Daily Cardinal

Fusion leaders from the U.S., Europe and Japan met to discuss research collaborations.

World’s largest superconducting fusion system will use American technology to measure the plasma within

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

NIF

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

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s World Fusion Outlook 2025 report says there are more than 160 fusion devices now either operational, under construction or planned.

Fusion entering implementation phase, says Grossi

World Nuclear News

Build Innovate Grow

Energy Department Announces Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap to Accelerate Commercial Fusion Power

Department of Energy (DOE)

It’s time for a state playbook for fusion energy deployment

Clean Air Task Force (CATF)

Construction in July 2025 on the planned Helion power plant Orion in Central Washington.

Helion lands permit for constructing reactor building at Washington site that aims to be first fusion plant

Energy Secretary Chris Wright

Energy announces roadmap for fusion science and technology

Bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy

Google DeepMind

Matthew Thompson, Zap vice president of systems engineering, alongside a demo fusion reactors at the company’s Everett, Wash., research and development facility.

Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy

From left, Type One Energy CEO Christofer Mowry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and TVA president and CEO Don Moul stand in the old turbine room of the Bull Run fossil plant.

Type One Energy, TVA ink LOI in development of fusion power in Tennessee

Nuclear Newswire

Why It’s Time To Make Nuclear Energy Renewable

Artist’s rendering of a possible inertial fusion energy power plant.

LLNL Receives Energy Department Funding for Fusion Energy Research

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

See How Fusion Energy Could Power the Future

Scientific American (SCIAM)

Energy Subcommittee Hearing - Igniting America's Energy Future: The Promise and Progress of Fusion Power

VIDEO: Energy Subcommittee Hearing – Igniting America’s Energy Future: The Promise and Progress of Fusion Power

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

Type One at Bull Run

VIDEO: Nation’s first fusion power plant planned for East TN

WATE 6 News Knoxville

An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

MIT Tech Review

Rendering of a part of the fusion blanket

Fusion for the future: Nuclear lab plays key role in testing a crucial technology

Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Reuters

US fusion builders fired up by Big Tech investments

US energy chief tells BBC fusion will soon power the world

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

INFUSE

ORNL leads three INFUSE projects solving fusion challenges

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Energy Department Announces $134 Million to Advance U.S. Fusion Leadership Through Targeted Research

Department of Energy (DOE)

The sixth ITER central solenoid module is prepared to be shipped to France.

General Atomics marks completion of ITER’s superconducting fusion magnet

Nuclear Newswire

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

In a paper published in Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers detail how they used physics-informed deep learning and a cognitive simulation framework to forecast the success of the historic Dec. 5, 2022 fusion ignition shot, predicting a greater than 70% probability that it would exceed the energy breakeven point — producing more energy from the fusion reaction than the laser energy used to drive it

LLNL used AI to predict historic fusion ignition shot

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

An artist’s interpretation of the inside of a fusion vessel, where some of the inner surfaces are directly exposed to the plasma. Some regions lie in the “magnetic shadow” of other components and are therefore magnetically shielded from the intense heat of the plasma.

Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Negative triangularity plasma produced in the DIII-D tokamak during an experimental campaign dedicated to exploring this innovative scenario.

Inverted Plasma Shape Shows Promise for Future Fusion Power Plant Design

Department of Energy (DOE)

Fusion Forward

VIDEO: Fusion Foward Podcast with Ahmed Diallo, plasma physicist at PPPL and Fusion Program Director at ARPA-E