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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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Politico

Trump’s social media venture strikes $6B merger deal with fusion power company

Fusion Energy Is Happening Now

Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

The New York Times

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

New AI method speeds up calculations to protect fusion reactors from plasma heat

Interesting Engineering (IE)

Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore achieve fusion ignition with groundbreaking approach

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos)

Reuters

Helion Energy starts construction on fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Kathleen Gallagher: Wisconsin must seize the moment with fusion energy as power demand soars

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A rendering shows Knoxville-based Type One Energy's nuclear fusion prototype, called a stellarator, which it plans to begin building in the old TVA Bull Run coal plant next year.

Fusion developer signs contracts with TVA

The Chattanooga Times Free Press

Avalanche Energy hits key milestone on the road to a desktop fusion reactor

Haus Conversations

Modular Fusion Reactors for the Private Sector with Realta Fusion’s Kieran Furlong

Haus Conversations: Infinite Frontiers

Reuters

Global investment in fusion energy rises the most since 2022

Over $2.5 Billion Invested in Fusion Industry in Past Year

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

A Fusion Breakthrough May Be Closer Than You Think

Artist impression of the Type One Energy stellarator

Interview: Type One Energy on developing commercially viable nuclear fusion

New Civil Engineering

Totals with three- and five-year moving average lines. We're only halfway into 2025 year and the moving averages are still growing

July 2025 Fusion Equity Investment Update

Fusion Energy Base

White House Chronicle

VIDEO: The betting heats up on a fusion-powered future

White House Chronicle

Legislation moves nuclear forward in Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin (UW-Madison)

Memos to the President Podcast

VIDEO: Memos to the President Podcast: A Conversation with Dr. JP Allain, Associate Director for Fusion Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy

Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Fusion’s plasma code cracked by US researchers’ elusive ‘voids’ breakthrough

Interesting Engineering (IE)

Westinghouse and ITER sign a $180M Contract to Advance Nuclear Fusion

Westinghouse Electric Company

Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

MIT Tech Review

Livermore a Leading Contender To Become Bay Area Fusion Hub

The Independent

Livermore eyed for new fusion research facility

Pleasanton Weekly

SPARC tokamak under construction in Devens, Massachusetts

Why American Fusion Needs Federal Dollars and Stanford Minds

Peninsula Press

Our latest bet on a fusion-powered future

ARC, the first commercial plant

Google Goes for Fusion With CFS

Reuters

Google strikes deal to buy fusion power from MIT spinoff Commonwealth

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)

NatSec Tech Podcast: Bob Mumgaard and Steven Cowley on the Critical Moment in Fusion

Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy

Local officials and a fusion company representative speak at a press conference at the Confluence Technology Center, announcing a state-of-the-art fusion power facility in Malaga.

Helion announces plans for world’s first fusion power facility in Malaga

The Wenatchee World

Federal Drive Podcast with Tom Temin

Federal Drive Podcast: Focused Energy’s Harris Walker

Federal News Network

The WHAM experiment

A Q+A With Kieran Furlong, CEO of Realta Fusion

Aerial view of SLAC

Unlocking the power of fusion: SLAC’s pioneering role in advanced energy solutions

Innovation News Network

The inside of the DIII-D fusion vessel

Some fusion fuel will be trapped in the inner walls of a fusion vessel. Researchers now have a better idea of how much.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Report: Fusion Power: Enabling 21st Century American Dominance

Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy

turbulent behavior of plasma inside fusion device

Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

computer-generated image showing a combined simulation of fusion plasma’s core and edge

Innovative fusion computer program receives national achievement award

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

TVA signs ‘landmark’ agreement with Type One Energy to develop fusion pilot plant

Knoxville News Sentinel

Foam-shelled fuel target

Lab and Startup Company Team Up on Fusion Materials

The Independent

Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting on Friday, Feb. 7, a panel of entrepreneurs, university leaders and business experts

UW to focus on founders in entrepreneurship push

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Experimental chambers that will be used as part of the TINEX project

UC San Diego a Key Part of New Project Led by General Atomics to Advance Fusion Energy

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

TVA, Type One Energy Ink Deal to Develop Commercial Fusion Power Plant

Startups Gamble on Fusion Energy

French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit ITER together on 12 February 2025.

Macron and Modi tour ITER together

miplasma

VIDEO: Dr. Cami Collins: Integrating Physics and Engineering for Fusion Reactor Design and Optimization

Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan

Everybody in the Pool Podcst

Everybody in the Pool Podcast: CEO Kieran Furlong of Realta Fusion

Everybody in the Pool by Molly Wood Media

General Atomics Secures DOE Funding to Advance Vital Fusion Energy Research and Development

General Atomics

US firm’s fusion tech hits stable plasma milestone without magnetic fields

Interesting Engineering

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin

Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy

Secretary Wright Acts to “Unleash Golden Era of American Energy Dominance”

Department of Energy

Focused Energy, Livermore Lab Join in Support of Fusion Research

DIII-D

VIDEO: General Atomics sees an end to the long road toward nuclear fusion

KPBS San Diego Public Media

FIRE Collaboratives

USC part of Department of Energy collaboration to accelerate commercial fusion energy

University of South Carolina

Thea Energy Announces Peer-Reviewed Publications Outlining the Planar Coil Stellarator Approach for Commercial Fusion Energy

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Early Career Research Program for FY 2025

DOE Office of Science

workshop on fusion energy attendees

Momentum for Fusion Energy in California Continues at UC Workshop

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

Why inertial confinement is key to fusion energy

Interesting Engineering

America has its own artificial sun: One step closer to producing infinite energy

Shows approximately 17 acres of land at Alameda Point

Fusion Energy Company Eyeing Alameda Point Property

Top 7 must-read fusion stories of 2024

Interesting Engineering

SRNL to Lead Fuel Cycle Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaborative

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)

Fusion energy could move closer to commercial viability with Clemson University’s help

UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Materials Steve Zinkle

UT Secures $20 Million DOE Grant to Develop Critical Nuclear Fusion Materials

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Virginia plant aims to be first in the world to provide commercial nuclear fusion energy by 2030s

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Selectees for $107 Million Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives, and Progress in Milestone Program Inspired by NASA

Department of Energy (DOE)

National Ignition Facility

Fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source — but big engineering challenges stand in the way

The Conversation

Notification of Funding Opportunity: Private Facilities Research Program (PFR)

DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Energy Unplugged by Aurora Podcast

Energy Unplugged Podcast: Scott Mercer, CEO of Focused Energy

Energy Unplugged by Aurora Energy Research

The Treasury Department building

IRA Final Rulemaking on Clean Energy Production and Investment Tax Credits is Published

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

CFS technicians carefully inspect a radial plate for SPARC, a fusion pilot power plant

Is the world ready for the transformational power of fusion?

World Economic Forum

Falls Church News-Press masthead

Fusion Energy Announcement Thrills Beyer, Virginia Leaders

Falls Church News-Press

A rendering of the Commonwealth Fusion Systems proposal for Chesterfield County

Virginia to host world’s first fusion power plant

Virginia Mercury

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new fusion power plant

MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant

FIA Outlines Fusion Workforce Opportunities and Projections in Skills Report

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

High school students at LLE

Summer High School Research Program at University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Fusion REactor Design and Assessment (FREDA)

All-in-one simulation tool enables faster, smarter fusion reactor design

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

We start with a 6mm diameter metal cylinder, 10mm tall, and fill it with deuterium and tritium gas.

Magnetic Drive Inertial Fusion Energy (MD-IFE)

Innovation News Network

An industrial approach to inertial fusion energy

AIP - American Institute of Physics

A view from NIF’s Target Bay

The Fire That Powers the Universe: Harnessing Inertial Fusion Energy

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Former graduate student Alexandra LeViness has her hand on a section of a stellarator, a twisty fusion device.

Fusion with a Twist: Improving Stellarators

DOE Office of Science

Fusion device

Focused Energy completes first milestones on US fusion programme

World Nuclear News (WNN)

DOE Partners with UK’s DESNZ and Tokamak Energy Ltd. to Accelerate Fusion Energy Development through a $52M Upgrade to the Privately Owned ST40 Facility

DOE Office of Science

Chart

Researchers reveal the mechanism of runaway electron generation in tokamak fusion reactors

Packers, Microsoft-led TitletownTech invests in Wisconsin-based fusion energy startup

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Acceleron Banks on Muons for Colder Fusion

Graphical abstract

Long-term research and design strategies for fusion energy materials

How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record

An overhead photo of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U)

Baking the perfect pie one piece at a time: PPPL makes progress on central magnet of NSTX‑U

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Inching Toward a Fusion Energy Future

The New York Times

How southern Wisconsin could become a nuclear fusion mecca

Department of Energy Announces $5 Million for Fusion Research via Public-Private Partnerships

DOE Office of Science

An artist’s interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion.

Spinning fusion fuel for efficiency

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Signatures on the "Fusion energy for all, all for fusion energy!" poster

Launch of the Private Sector Fusion Engagement project

TED Radion Hour

TED Radio Hour Podcast: Giant lasers might spark our fusion energy future

National Public Radio (NPR)

Cross-section of the target chamber in an artist’s concept of an inertial fusion energy power plant, where targets would be ignited ten times a second to generate abundant, clean energy. Credit: Eric Smith Cross-section of the target chamber in an artist’s concept of an inertial fusion energy power plant

LLNL Researchers Explore Next-Gen 3D Printing to Harness Fusion Energy

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Sun

Study: Fusion energy could play a major role in the global response to climate change

The Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy Pathfinder

The Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy Pathfinder

Department of Energy

The Quest to Build a Star on Earth

The New York Times

Fusion Leader Wants to Build on Site of Old Coal Plants

MIT Sloan School of Management

How lessons from biotechnology can help unlock the future of fusion energy

MIT Sloan School of Management

‘First wall’ material: US eyes better nuclear reactor fusion power with AI infusion

Interesting Engineering

IAEA World Fusion Outlook 2024

Report: IAEA World Fusion Outlook 2024

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Fusion Energy Insights

3 Insights from Seattle Fusion Week

Fusion Energy Insights

Shuji Nakamura, CEO of BLF and Franco Cotana, CEO of RSE

Fusion Energy Agreement Between RSE and Blue Laser Fusion (USA)

U.S. Special Envoy for Fusion Steffi Diem was in Italy to attend the meeting of the “G7 Working Group” on nuclear fusion.

U.S. Special Envoy for Fusion Steffi Diem attends the meeting of the “G7 Working Group” on nuclear fusion.

U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Italy

An overhead photo of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U)

US completes first key magnet for apple-shaped nuclear fusion reactor

Interesting Engineering

IAEA

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

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Computer graphics of the plasma vessel and magnet coils

Stellarators: “Things are different now”

Igniting Fusion Energy’s Future: The Surprising Power of Boron

Science at Work

Science at Work Podcast: Advancing Fusion Energy

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)

DIII-D

DIII-D National Fusion Facility Achieves Historic Operational Milestone on the Road to Developing Fusion Energy

Worchester Business Journal

Fast forward to 2034: Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ attempt to provide carbon-free energy for the masses

Worchester Business Journal

Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum

MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) study

Study: Fusion energy could play a major role in the global response to climate change

Laser fusion startup moves from Austin to Bay Area, aims to power S.F. with ‘three soda cans’

San Francisco Chronicle

National Labs Map

From sea to scientific sea

Symmetry Magazine

The SMART tokamak

Fusion machines advance in Spain and New Zealand

World Nuclear News (WNN)

Avalanche Energy Systems’ Orbitron microfusion reactor

Tri-Cities is new home to a Seattle startup’s $30M fusion energy research outpost

Savannah River National Laboratory to Receive $1.5M for Technology to Enable Fusion Power Plants

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)

Fusion plant design that could power 70,000 US homes revealed by Tokamak Energy

Interesting Engineering

To Make Fusion a Reliable Energy Source One Day, Scientists Will First Need to Design Heat- and Radiation-Resilient Materials

The Conversation

Artist rendering of the Advanced Technology Lasers for Applications and Science (ATLAS) Facility

Work to start on powerful new laser facility funded by public-private partnership

Colorado State University (CSU)

LLNL's Jim McCarrick and Alex Hess speak to attendees about inertial fusion energy and private-sector partnerships at the Roadrunner Tech Forum on Sept. 4, 2024.

LLNL presents on fusion energy at industry collaboration event

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Unraveling the Fusion Confusion

RealClearEnergy (RCE)

Charting the evolution of energy

Freethink Research

waves of code

New AI models of plasma heating lead to important corrections in computer code used for fusion research

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Mechanical engineering graduate students in Institute Director Javier Garay's lab are working to solve some of the engineering challenges that must be addressed before fusion energy can make a positive impact on the world's energy needs.

UC San Diego Launches Fusion Engineering Institute

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century

Department of Energy Announces $49 Million for Research on Foundational Laboratory Fusion

DOE Office of Science

Emerson Collective’s Fusion Today

VIDEO: Emerson Collective’s Julien Barber on Fusion – How it works, why it’s critical & how it’ll transform society

Emerson Collective

Teams at Westinghouse clean ITER vacuum vessel sector #5 (440 tonnes) before packaging and shipment.

Europe Completes First of Five Sectors

The Current U.S. Approach to Fusion

Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

ARPA-E Chadwick

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Nearly $30 Million for 13 Projects to Enable Commercial Fusion Energy

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Zero Nuclear Fusion Is Unlimited Clean Power. So When Can We Have It?

Replacing hype about artificial intelligence with accurate measurements of success

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Zap Energy investors in recent $130M round included Soros Fund and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective

FY2023 DIII-D Research Campaign Highlights

DIII-D National Fusion Facility

FIA

Fusion Industry Association Launches U.S. Strategic Priorities Document Ahead of Election

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Senate Committee Meeting on Energy & Natural Resources

U.S. Senate Hosts Hearing on Fusion Development and Commercialization

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Invisible infrared light from the 200-trillion-watt Trident Laser

Department of Energy Announces $5.65 Million for Research on High Energy Density Plasmas

DOE Office of Science

Fusion Energy Base Graph Shown at United States Senate Hearing

Fusion Energy Base Graph Shown at United States Senate Hearing

Fusion Energy Base

Soundbite Podcast

Soundbite Podcast: MPEX – Power, particles and plasma

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

PPPL’s Plasma Pathways Summer School

A pathway to careers in science: Young people learn skills and receive hands-on experience through PPPL’s summer programs

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Could powerful lasers unlock cheap fusion power?

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Faraday Factory Japan makes high-temperature superconductors

Faraday Factory announces it has delivered over 5,000 km of high-temperature superconductor tape to fusion industry

Every fusion startup that has raised over $300M

Steffi Diem, professor of nuclear engineering, peers into Pegasus III

175 Years of Energy Research at UW–Madison: From minerals to sunlight, the quest to find, harness, and improve energy has helped shape the university's research portfolio

University of Wisconsin-Madison

IAEA Board of Governors Meeting and General Conference in Vienna, Austria

IAEA Board of Governors Meeting and General Conference Talk Fusion Deployment

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

The 2024 IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School cohort gathers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Next-gen of leaders gather at ORNL for IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

LaserNetUS Report

Advancing LaserNetUS Science with Enhanced Diagnostics

A Public Path to Building a Star on Earth

Issues in Science and Technology

PPPL

Undergraduate students contribute to sustainability and the future of fusion through summer internship programs

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Office of Science Selections from Funding Opportunity Announcements for the week of August 28, 2024

US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC)

A New Breakthrough in Fusion Reactors Could Solve a Major Problem Scientists Have Faced

Popular Mechanics

Fusion Industry Association Launches Committee on Digital Technologies

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

The world-saving potential of fusion just got a huge boost

The Washington Post

Evdokiya Kostadinova

PhysicsQuest 2024: A Mysterious Matter

American Physical Society’s (APS) Division of Plasma Physics (DPP)

MIT’s breakthrough metal makes fusion systems resilient to harsh heat

Interesting Engineering

Joe Ralph, co-lead author and inertial confinement fusion research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Research confirms importance of symmetry in pre-ignition fusion experiments

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Interesting Engineering

US’ commercial fusion energy goal can be achieved with new fuel recycling method

Interesting Engineering

Professor Ju Li (right) and postdoc So Yeon Kim (left) examine samples of the composite they have fabricated for their demonstrations.

More durable metals for fusion power reactors

Science Magazine

Making fusion pay: To fund its vision of generating power from fusion, SHINE Technologies aims first to revolutionize medical isotope production

Building a Tritium Facility Operating Experience Body of Knowledge to Support Commercial Fusion Power Plant Safety Case Development and Licensing

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Department of Energy Announces $4.6 Million to Fund Public-Private Partnerships for Fusion Research

DOE Office of Science

Nuclear Engineering International (NEI)

Helion secures licence for Polaris fusion

Nuclear Engineering International (NEI)

Falls Church News-Press masthead

Signing of Fusion Energy Act Hailed

Falls Church News-Press

Fusion firm building at Bull Run site has enthusiastic backers, including Bill Gates

Knoxville News Sentinel

In a Dazzling Fusion Milestone, a Magnetic Mirror Achieved First Plasma

Popular Mechanics

NIF

Powerful Tailwinds Support Fusion Energy’s Commercialization Road Map

Photonics Spectra

An artist's metaphoric depiction of a fusion plasma in a microwave, with a toaster in the background.

Heating for fusion: Why toast plasma when you can microwave it!

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) announced four commissioners on the Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy

Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

Torsatron, a type of stellarator

Fusion race: ‘Flexible’ stellarators could give US edge over China

Interesting Engineering

The 2024 Fusion Student Delegation (FuSD) Policy Statement is out!

Fusion Student Delegation (FuSD)

Bill Gates-backed Type One Energy lands massive seed extension to commercialize fusion power

3D printed model

Make Your Own Tokamak with 3D Printing!

Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X device

US plasma physicists propose construction of a ‘flexible’ stellarator facility

Tammy Ma

VIDEO: LLNL’s Tammy Ma Shares Fusion Energy Vision with TED

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

D-shaped, compact, spherical tokamak

Tokamaks: Different Approaches Around the World

U.S. Creates High-Tech Global Supply Chains to Blunt Risks Tied to China

The New York Times

UT Fusion Summer School

UT Hosts DOE-Funded Fusion Summer School

University of Tennessee

The fusion industry is having a growth spurt

computer simulation of the divertorlets system

Creating loops of liquid lithium for fusion temperature control

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Reuters

Global fusion energy investment growth falls for second year

WHAM

AUDIO: UW-Madison one step closer to harnessing the power of the sun through fusion research

Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR)

FIA Launches 2024 Global Fusion Industry Report

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength

A high-field simple mirror called WHAM

Frugal fusion: PPPL looks to magnetic mirrors to produce small, economical fusion devices

DOE Office of Science

UW-Madison

First plasma marks major milestone in UW-Madison fusion energy research

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Equity Investments to Fusion Energy Companies 2010-2023 by Country

Equity Investments to Fusion Energy Companies 2010–2023 by Country

Fusion Energy Base

Fusion Z-pinch Experiment

Advancements in Z-pinch fusion: New insights from plasma pressure profiles

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Fusion pioneer Commonwealth Fusion Systems is selling core magnet tech to the University of Wisconsin

This is a rendering of Type One Energy Group’s fusion stellarator.

Group Selected to Develop Pilot Fusion Plant

A rendering of SPARC

Split of Fusion Regulation from Fission Codified by New Law

AIP - American Institute of Physics

Helion Energy CEO and co-founder David Kirtley talks to Gov. Jay Inslee

Inslee energized from visit to Everett fusion firms

The Everett Herald

ITER

Fusion energy companies unite to accelerate commercial power

Zap Vice President of R&D Ben Levitt demonstrating the FuZE device to Governor Jay Inslee on July 9, 2024.

Inslee visits key fusion energy companies in Everett to witness “world changing” endeavors

Falls Church News-Press masthead

Reps. Beyer, Trahan Celebrate Signing of Fusion Energy Act

Falls Church News-Press

POTUS

President Biden signs ADVANCE Act into law

World Nuclear News (WNN)

Energy in Transition: Fusion Pushes to Reach Commercial Power Plant Stage

Engineering New-Record (ENR)

ITER

Is the world’s biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?

The sun in the jar: A W&M summer school helps lead the way toward AI-powered fusion

Photos

Advancing fintech and fusion energy on HBCU campuses

US Black Enegineer

Bob Mumgaard

An Open Letter from Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO, Bob Mumgaard: Building Trust in Fusion Energy

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

multiscale simulation of plasma temperature fluctuations

New Clues to Improving Fusion Confinement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Daily Energy Insider

President Biden to consider bill expediting development of commercial fusion energy

Daily Energy Insider

Senate Sends Capito, Carper, Whitehouse Nuclear Energy Bill to President’s Desk

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works

A Plasma Escape Plan Solved a Monumental Fusion Roadblock

Popular Mechanics

Fusion device with date

AI approach elevates plasma performance and stability across fusion devices

Princeton University

Wired

Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution

Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC)

Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC)

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

CBS8 San Diego

VIDEO: Scientists working on clean energy by recreating the sun in a San Diego lab

CBS8 KFMB San Diego

Tritium Plant Summit

Tritium Plant Summit: A shared vision to prepare for delivery

G7 Includes Fusion Energy in Leaders’ Communiqué

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

CFS

Commonwealth Fusion Systems inks $15M federal deal to accelerate energy tech

Worchester Business Journal

PRESS RELEASE: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces More Than $180 Million to Advance Implementation of its Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy

The White House

DOE

DOE Announces New Decadal Fusion Energy Strategy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Doughnuts to apples

New model describes how tokamak shape affects plasma stability

American Nuclear Society (ANS)

ALCF

VIDEO: Advancing Fusion Energy Science with Argonne’s Aurora Exascale Supercomputer

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

ITER Private Sector Workshop

Private Sector Workshop: “How can ITER help?”

An interior view of the vessel at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility

Upgrades in place, San Diego’s nuclear fusion facility is back up and running

The San Diego Union-Tribune

NIF

‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen

Cecilia Payne art

It’s A Wrap! Fusion Energy Week 2024 Recap

U.S. Fusion Outreach

ARPA-E’s Impact on Commercial Fusion Acceleration

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Elizabeth Grace (LLNL, right) and Filip Grepl (ELI Beamlines, left) assemble the PROBIES diagnostic

Machine learning optimizes high-power laser experiments

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

The life-size prop replica of The Stellarator.

Discovering the Physics of “Quantum Leap”

National Academy of Sciences

A rendering of the PPIC building shows the three-story north wing with the roof garden to the left, and the south wing laboratory building.

Princeton Plasma Innovation Center Heralds a New Era at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

DOE Office of Science

The interior of WEST, the tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak

Fusion record set for tungsten tokamak WEST

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

ANS

Bipartisan Fusion Energy Act pushes for regulatory clarity

American Nuclear Society (ANS)

Doug Hammond

Using Lasers to Create the Power of the Stars on Earth

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ALPACA measurement device

New instrument could help scientists tailor plasma to produce more fusion heat

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) artist John Jett presents a new comic book

Comic book tells the story of ignition

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center

MIT’s superconducting magnets are ready for fusion

MIT Technology Review

A grating debris shield (GDS) in a NIF final optics assembly

Inside the Fusion Facility That Changed the World

CBS News

VIDEO: What to know about nuclear fusion amid congressional push

Zap Energy Achieves Significant Fusion Energy Milestone: Electron Temperature Exceeding 10 Million Degrees

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

US ITER

Researchers develop imaging technology to verify quality of components for international fusion project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Reuters

US lawmakers introduce bill to support nuclear fusion development

PBS Energy Switch

VIDEO: Energy Switch – Nuclear Fusion (Season 4 Episode 1 – PBS)

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Senators Padilla, Cornyn, Booker, Young, Murray Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Accelerate Fusion Energy

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

DOE

Joint Statement between DOE and Japan’s MEXT Concerning a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Fusion Energy Demonstration and Commercialization

US Department of Energy (DOE)

Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Oklahoma

Americans Supportive but Misinformed About Fusion Energy’s Promise

University of Oklahoma

plasma waves

Creating an island paradise in a fusion reactor

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Negative triangularity shaping in the DIII-D tokamak (left) produced plasmas with no observed instabilities for triangularities less than approximately -0.15, even at high heating power and core performance (right).

Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance

DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

U.S. Department of State

Announcement of the 2024 Cohort of U.S. Science Envoys

U.S. Department of State

Roughly 100 middle school girls participated in the 22nd annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day held at Argonne on Feb. 15.

Argonne hosts 22nd annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

ARPA-E Investor Update Vol. 21: Thea Energy’s Stellarator

Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)

An interior view of the vessel at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility

VIDEO: An inside look at the fusion device promising limitless energy

Reuters

Fusion backers meet in US capital

PPPL physicists (left to right) George Wilkie, Anurag Maan, Nate Ferraro, Santanu Banerjee, Dennis Boyle and Richard Majeski

Adding just enough fuel to the fire

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s 2024 Young Women’s Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics East

Nearly 900 girls find inspiration at PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Simulating the Fourth State of Matter to Harness Fusion

DOE Office of Science

NPR Short Wave Podcast

PODCAST: Are we on the brink of a nuclear fusion breakthrough?

National Public Radio (NPR)

A rendering of a laser fusion power plant

Fluor to design laser fusion power plant

World Nuclear News (WNN)

An interior view of the vessel at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility

Smooth operation of future nuclear fusion facilities is a matter of control

Lehigh University

ITER

Application Deadline Approaching: 2024 Internship Opportunities at the ITER Organization

ITER Organization

PPPL’s Head of Science Education Arturo Dominguez (far right) takes a group of INFUSE workshop attendees on a tour of the Lab.

INFUSE workshop gives private and public fusion partners a chance to network and share experiences

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion

OMEGA Laser Facility at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

New federal funding approved for Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ OMEGA facility

University of Rochester

Funding Opportunity Announcement: Research on General Plasma Science Collaborative Research Facilities

DOE Office of Science

FIA Endorses Passage of Atomic Energy Advancement Act

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

scientists

SLAC scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant in Clinton, Tennessee

Prototype fusion device planned for at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) site

World Nuclear News (WNN)

Engineers use AI to wrangle fusion power for the grid

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

FLARE experiment

FLARE Brings New Power to Magnetic Reconnection Research

DOE Office of Science

Fusion fever grips Capitol Hill. Will big funding follow?

UC San Diego

UC San Diego is Part of DOE Grant to Establish Inertial Fusion Energy Hub

University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)

Yuhu Zhai, PPPL

Ultra-powerful magnet facility launches at PPPL

Princeton University

Dayne Fratanduono, deputy NIF director

Enhanced Yield Capability Proposal Aims to Boost NIF Yield

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

The University of Rochester’s Omega laser system

Direct approach to laser-powered fusion promises simpler power production

View of the inside of LTX-β

Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

The Future of Fusion: Unlocking Complex Physics With AI’s Precision

WarpX simulation of energetic protons produced for inertial fusion energy.

Berkeley Lab Leads SciDAC Project

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

Can the dream of fusion power be realized?

Reuters

OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough

ITER

Smooth operation of future nuclear fusion facilities is a matter of control

Researchers visualize energetic ion flow in fusion devices

Secretary of Energy Granholm

Fusion Industry Association Sends Letter on Fusion Budget to Secretary of Energy Granholm

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Fusion reactor

On Fusion Energy

Falls Church News-Press

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $30 Million to Develop First-Wall Materials and Improve Sustainability and Commercial Viability of Fusion Energy

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

DIII-D’s role as a national user facility in enabling the commercialization of fusion energy

AIP - American Institute of Physics

Jack Berkery

NSTX-U is poised to close the gaps between today’s research tokamaks and tomorrow’s commercial utilities

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

S&P Global

Fusion energy industry anticipates electric power breakthrough by summer

Sun

UCLA joins $42 million Department of Energy hubs to advance fusion energy

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Sun

Reproducing the Sun on Earth

NIF

Inside the Fusion Facility That Changed the World

Oak Ridge National Laboratory aerial

ORNL to lead project on remote maintenance and repair for fusion power plants

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

UW-Madison

Fusion Breakthrough as Near-Limitless Energy Comes Closer to Reality

Engineer Jeremiah Kirch, postdoctoral researcher Mykola Ialovega and assistant scientist Marcos Xavier Navarro-Gonzalez

Newly developed material gulps down hydrogen, spits it out, protects fusion reactor walls

University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIF at LLNL

With 200 lasers and a peppercorn-sized fuel capsule, scientists inch closer to mastering fusion energy

NIF at LLNL

US fusion energy lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over

MIT Proto Ventures

What Do Experts Say About Proto Ventures’ Clean Energy Startup Ideas?

MIT Proto Ventures

Spray coating technology

Newly developed material gulps down hydrogen, spits it out, protects fusion reactor walls

LLNL’s Westgate entrance

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory receives $16M boost in federal funding

Google: Year in Search

VIDEO: Year in Search 2023 – The Most Searched Breakthrough: FUSION ENERGY

Hampton University

HU School of Science Awarded a $1.7M Grant from the Simons Foundation to Help Develop a New Stellarator Experiment Group to Advance Research in Fusion Plasma Science

Hampton University

RISE at CSU

CSU to lead DOE-funded multi-institution hub to advance laser-driven fusion energy

Colorado State University (CSU)

Los Alamos Daily Post

General Atomics Brings Inertial Fusion Energy Expertise To Two National Research Hubs

Los Alamos Daily Post

OU Scientists Co-Lead First Federally Funded Fusion Research Hub

The University of Oklahoma

Plasma

Workshop will explore measurement innovations required to understand plasma for fusion energy, microelectronics and more

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

LLNL-led IFE STARFIRE Hub

LLNL-led team receives DOE Award to establish inertial fusion energy hub

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Cornell’s Laboratory of Plasma Studies (LPS)

Lab of Plasma Studies joins DOE-funded hub to advance fusion energy

Cornell Chronicle

John Kerry at COP28

US announces international plan to boost commercial fusion energy

Fusion gets a bipartisan boost

COP28 Panel

IAEA Opens Fusion Energy Discussion at COP28 as Momentum Keeps Growing

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

SLAC

SLAC brings rapid-fire laser and target expertise to national fusion energy research hubs

SLAC National Laboratory

Texas A&M, Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE)

Texas A&M Institute Part Of National Effort To Harness Nuclear Laser Fusion For Limitless Energy

Texas A&M Today

NIF

DOE Announces $42 Million for Inertial Fusion Energy Hubs

US Department of Energy (DOE)

Lasers

3 Laser Fusion Research Hubs Picked by Energy Department

The New York Times

View from inside the OMEGA target chamber

Rochester’s Laser Lab heads new national inertial fusion energy hub

University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Zap and Helion

Companies say they're closing in on fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

National Public Radio (NPR)

US unveils global strategy to commercialize fusion as source of clean energy during COP28

Associate Press (AP)

International Partnerships in a New Era of Fusion Energy Development

The White House

A rendering of the SPARC fusion tokamak

New study shows how universities are critical to emerging fusion industry

Oak Ridger masthead

Could a fusion electricity plant come here in the next decade?

Fox News

Biden climate envoy Kerry to unveil 1st-ever global plan to commercialize fusion energy at UN summit

NIF at LLNL

Who Will Lead The Age Of Fusion Energy?

Master Oscillator Room (MOR) at NIF

LLNL’s NIF Delivers Record Laser Energy

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Kimberly Budil, LLNL

What’s coming next for fusion research

MIT Technology Review

Fusion industry outlines ambitious plans to deliver electricity to the grid by 2035

COP28 IMAGE

US to announce global fusion strategy at COP28

Dennis Whyte

Dennis Whyte Steps Down as Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

75 companies and universities urge increase in US fusion funding, send letters to Congress

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

The interior of the National Ignition Facility target chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Start-Ups With Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy

The New York Times

North America and Asia-Pacific to Lead the Growth in the Fusion Technologies Market, Forecasted to Grow at a CAGR of 29.4% and 41.4% respectively by 2040

Focused Energy Partners with LLNL on a Target Design for Inertial Fusion Energy

Adelle Wright

Focus on new faculty: Adelle Wright is bridging the gap between fusion science and real-world energy technology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Columbia Engineering undergraduates

Student Team wins DOE Grant to Advance Fusion Energy Research

Columbia University in the City of New York

Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall

Renewed support for high power laser facilities will benefit discovery science and inertial fusion energy research at SLAC

SLAC National Laboratory

Joint Statement Between DOE and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Concerning a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Fusion

Department of Energy

Ahmed Diallo, a principal research physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and program director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.

Chasing Fusion With the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Ahmed Diallo

Princeton Alumni Weekly

National Academy of Sciences

Fusion Energy: Seizing Our Opportunity for a Clean Energy Future

National Academy of Sciences

Knowable Magazine

Pursuing fusion power

Knowable Magazine

Department of Energy Announces $11.4 Million for Research on Quantum Information Science for Fusion Energy Sciences

DOE Office of Science

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano

The IAEA: The International Centre of Fusion Energy Past, Present and Future

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

ITER Director General at IAEA Fusion 2023

ITER director general promises ‘realistic’ project timeline

World Nuclear News (WNN)

California Capitol Building

California recognises fusion energy as distinct from nuclear fission

Nuclear Engineering International (NEI)

Realta Fusion

Realta Fusion is applying new superconducting technology to a well-known fusion concept: the magnetic mirror

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Schematic of tokamak core-pedestal-boundary regions

Three projects to accelerate fusion energy development awarded to ORNL

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Nucor bets on silver bullet for ‘green’ steel: fusion energy

waves

The key to safer fusion? New designs that curb runaway electrons

Advanced Science News

A petawatt-class titanium sapphire laser system at the Colorado State University

Colorado State University to become global leader in laser research, fusion energy

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Norman is the fifth-generation experimental device on TAE’s path to commercial fusion.

TAE Technologies applauds California's landmark fusion energy bill

Low Energy Recirculator Facility at Jefferson Lab

Fueling the future of fusion energy

Could artificial intelligence power the future of fusion?

Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Research on the DIII-D National User Facility and Small-scale Experiments

DOE Office of Science

STAC meeting

ITER Baseline: STAC committee reviews new plans for construction and operation

STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | ENVATO

Why the dream of fusion power isn’t going away

MIT Technology Review

Advanced Boundary Plasma Dynamics (ABOUND)

LLNL-led project to advance understanding of plasma dynamics for future fusion power plants

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

NIF at LLNL

Laser-fusion experiment squeezes out even more energy

America Will Have a Working Fusion Reactor Within 12 Years, Come Hell or High Water

Popular Mechanics

Helion Energy fusion device

‘Historic’ 500 MW fusion power plant would power steelmaking facility

U.S. aims to create fusion energy facility within 10 years, Energy chief says

Associate Press (AP)

NIF target chamber

A Laser Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Energy

The New York Times

Dr. Carmen Constantin, who built most of Phoenix’s components stands near one of the Phoenix amplifiers and one of the vacuum telescopes that relay image the beam through the 100 ft long system.

UCLA Joins Consortium of the Nation’s Best Large Laser Facilities

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

tokamak

IST researcher among recipients of $29 million fusion energy sciences grant

The Pennsylvania State University

DOE’s Science and Technology Priorities YouTube

VIDEO: An Update on the Department of Energy’s Science and Technology Priorities

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Republicans

Abstract rendering of waves and particles.

A breakthrough discovery could accelerate the arrival of controlled fusion energy on Earth

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Austin Linder from the Jupiter Laser Facility works on aligning the COMET laser system for user experiments.

LLNL’s Jupiter Laser Facility funding renewed for additional research in discovery science

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm with students enrolled in the Workshop in Plasma Physics for Undergraduates along with graduate students in the Science Education Laboratory.

Workshops welcome undergraduates and faculty into plasma physics & fusion field

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

ITER Assembly Hall

Central solenoid: The stacking has begun

Prof. Stephanie Diem and students

New Pegasus-III fusion experiment off to a flying start

University of Wisconsin-Madison

CSU’s Advanced Beam Laboratory

CSU receives major funding from Department of Energy for high-power laser research

Colorado State University

Dr. Evdokiya Kostadinova, an Assistant Professor at Auburn University

US Government invests $5m in fusion energy research platform

Innovation News Network

NIF laser bay

The huge number of deals fuelling fusion energy race

The Australian Financial Review

A view inside the OMEGA target chamber during an experiment at LLE.

Could artificial intelligence power the future of fusion?

University of Rochester

Voice of America

VIDEO: Seattle Startup in Race for Nuclear Fusion

Voice of America (VOA)

NIF

Governments join race for commercial fusion power

Financial Times (FT)

Dr. Cristina Rea of PSFC and Dr. Danas Ridikas of IAEA

Fast-tracking fusion energy’s arrival with AI and accessibility

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) building at UC San Diego

U.S. Department of Energy Selects Team to Advance Fusion Research

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Steffi Diem, a professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics, who leads the Pegasus-III experiment.

UW–Madison part of effort to advance fusion energy with machine learning

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Energy Announces $9.96 Million for Basic Plasma Science Research

DOE Office of Science

Jacob Banasek (Sandia National Laboratory), Simon Bott-Suzuki (University of California San Diego), and Clément Goyon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

LLNL develops portable Thomson scattering diagnostic to support ARPA-E’s fusion energy ventures

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Associate Professor Saskia Mordijck at ITER in Southern France

William & Mary to lead machine learning efforts for nuclear fusion

The College of William & Mary (William & Mary)

Dr. Andrea Kritcher and Dr. Alex Zylstra of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory stand in the National Ignition Facility’s target bay.

Ignition accomplished: LLNL team makes history with fusion breakthrough

San Francisco Business Times

Sydor Technologies receives DOE grant for fusion energy project

Rochester Business Journal

Zap Energy CTO and co-founder Brian Nelson works the FuZE Grill during a cookout at the company’s new headquarters building in Everett, WA.

Fusion cuisine: Zap Energy fires up BBQ grill built to look like one of its high-tech, superheated devices

Participants in the disruption workshop.

Promising approaches to combatting tokamak disruptions presented at PPPL-hosted workshop

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

DOE

DOE Announces $126 Million for Small Businesses to Pursue Clean Energy Research and Development

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

UCLA Samueli Professor Jaime Marian

UCLA-Led Team Receives DOE Grant to Simulate Materials for Fusion Systems

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Fusion energy absration

7 founders and CEOs discuss fusion power’s most pressing challenges

The Omega laser at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

Forging a Path to Fusion by Understanding Plasma Viscosity

DOE Office of Science

Graduate student Alexandra LeViness stands next to part of a stellarator, a twisty fusion device designed to confine ultra-hot plasma to facilitate fusion reactions.

Scientists discover shortcut that aids the design of twisty fusion facilities

Department of Energy Announces $112 Million for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences

NIF’s target chamber

How a US lab created energy with fusion — again

Popular Science

SHINE Technologies has demonstrated clearly visible Cherenkov radiation

Janesville’s SHINE Technologies demonstrates fusion milestone

Harry Campbell illustration

Fusion Is Having a Moment

NIF optics assembly

VIDEO: US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time

NIF

U.S. lab says it repeated fusion energy feat — with higher yield

The Washington Post

A scientist works in University Distinguished Professor Carmen Menoni’s Advanced Thin Films Deposition Laser Lab in May at CSU.

CSU and Marvel Fusion to build groundbreaking $150M laser facility through public-private partnership

Colorado State University

NIF

US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough

Financial Times

Department of Energy Announces $28.5 Million for LaserNetUS

DOE Office of Science

Anchor Judy Woodruff announces the fusion ignition breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the Dec. 13, 2022, edition of “PBS NewsHour.”

From ‘60 Minutes’ to ‘SNL,’ fusion ignition news thrusts LLNL into the zeitgeist

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Melton lake at Fall

Type One Energy Group Expands to Oak Ridge, Tennessee

How Physicists Are Using Dyson Maps to Build a Working Fusion Device

Popular Mechanics

Wisconsin State Jounral

Fusion energy has strong toehold in Wisconsin

Wisconsin State Jounral

Surface maps and line scans of topology and aluminum composition on a rough carbon sample.

Stuck in the Rough: How Aging Reactor Walls May Exhibit Lower Erosion

DOE Office of Science

The superconducting tape is made up of yttrium barium copper oxide deposited on a steel substrate.

This Fusion Device Is Held Together With Tape

The research team demonstrated that minor additions of hafnium into the WTaCrV high entropy alloy lead to higher radiation resistance.

High-performing alloy developed to help harness fusion energy

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos)

Tokamak Energy ST40 plasma

PPPL makes critical contributions to historic public-private partnership

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

A special type of high-temperature superconducting cable that holds promise for use in fusion reactors.

A welcome new pipeline for students invested in clean energy

A view of Earth’s night sky from orbit

Fusion Industry Investment Passes $6bn

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

A worker inside the vessel at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility

DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Record-Breaking 1,600-Hour Research Campaign

Technicians inspect a nuclear fusion ignition chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.

Will Tech Breakthroughs Bring Fusion Energy Closer to Reality?

Yale Environment 360

View through the OMEGA laser’s 20-cm disk amplifiers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

New technique may help achieve mass production fusion energy

University of Rochester

Zap and Helion

Welcome to Fusion City, USA

Many of the US-Japan collaborative experiments were irradiated in this central zone of the reactor core of ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor.

US-Japan fusion materials collaboration marks 40 years of progress

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

$ITER infrared diagnostics have optical components that transfer the infrared radiation emanating from the plasma-facing components to cameras located many metres away. The set of planned infrared cameras will monitor a large fraction of plasma-facing surfaces for “hot spots.”$

Expert Meet to Improve Infrared Measurements for ITER

Realta Fusion is developing fusion technology that uses magnetic mirrors to stabilize plasma. Its design is based on an experimental device developed at UW–Madison, pictured here.

Madison startup gains federal backing to continue fusion energy research

Stellarators to return as key fusion energy research concept after tokamak focus.

The renaissance of the stellarator – what it means for fusion energy

World Economic Fortum (WEF)

Abhay K. Ram, a principal research scientist at the PSFC

A new mathematical “blueprint” is accelerating fusion device development

tokamak

The prospects of high-temperature superconductors

Fusion illustration by Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch

With $10T on the line, 6 fusion investors explain why they’re all in

JET

Fusion energy projects present the civil engineering sector with huge opportunities

New Civil Engineer

The ITER Council gathers for its 32nd Meeting on 21 and 22 June 2023.

32nd ITER Council: A focus on updating the baseline

Congressional Hearing on Fusion Energy Shows Bipartisan Support For Accelerating Commercialization Efforts

Congressional Hearing on Fusion Energy Shows Bipartisan Support For Accelerating Commercialization Efforts

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

The hydrogen isotope separator system at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE).

Laboratory for Laser Energetics joins team to develop commercial fusion energy

University of Rochester

The Fuel Pellet Fueling Laboratory at ORNL

ORNL to be involved in multiple DOE-funded commercial fusion energy development projects

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Darby Dunn, the Vice President of operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Why the ‘Mother of Dragons’ at SpaceX left her job building rockets to work on fusion energy

Helically Symmetric eXperiment, or HSX

Federal grants to 2 Wisconsin startups highlight UW’s leading role in fusion energy

University of Wisconsin-Madison

16 massive propping elements stand in a close circle around the lone central plinth

Tokamak Assembly: Extra Support from Below

University of Illinois and Tokamak Energy

Illinois researchers partner with Tokamak Energy on new DOE fusion program

University of Illinois

CFS

Commonwealth Fusion has raised $2 billion to make energy like the sun and stars — here’s a look inside

Tokamak and fusion

Advancing fusion energy: Researchers achieve record-breaking temperatures in a tokamak

Interesting Engineering

Zap Energy is advancing fusion plasma performance inside its FuZE-Q device.

Zap Energy Unveils Innovative Method to Quantify Fusion Energy Gain

Realta Fusion’s wham vacuum vessel

Madison fusion energy startup lands $12 million to decarbonize heavy industry

The Business Journals

Zap Energy’s fusion system

Zap Energy lands $5M federal grant and ‘vote of confidence’ in pursuit of fusion power

Commonwealth Fusion Systems awarded slice of $46M DOE milestone program

Worcester Business Journal

Princeton Stellarators Selected for U.S. Department of Energy Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program

Xcimer Energy Announces $9 Million US Department of Energy Award to Develop Laser-Driven Inertial Fusion Energy

Realta Fusion

Realta Fusion lights up with $9M seed for industrial heat led by Khosla Ventures

Spherical tokamak

A Compact Fusion Energy System Barely 3 Feet Across Has Hit a Huge Milestone

DOE

VIDEO: Advancing the Bold Decadal Vision: launching a milestone-based fusion development program.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $46 Million for Commercial Fusion Energy Development

DOE Office of Science

NIF

Two Madison-area companies get federal money to help curb climate change through fusion energy

Wisconsin State Jounral

Reuters

US announces $46 million in funds to eight fusion energy companies

A podcast about people and projects in computational science.

AUDIO: Season 3, Episode 3 — Tammy Ma: How supercomputing supports fusion research

Science in Parallel Podcast

Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

Fusion Q&A: The Path Forward

5 potential paths to a fusion energy breakthrough

Luis Graterol

5 ways fusion energy can change the world for the better

World Economic Fortum (WEF)

Mark Ross

What Is the Future of Fusion Energy?

Scientific American

Reuters

First fusion plants to need $7 billion supply chain, survey shows

NIF

This lab achieved a stunning breakthrough on fusion energy

FIA

Fusion Industry Association Releases Supply Chain Report

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Dr. David Kirtley, Helion (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

Everett fusion energy company nets first customer: Microsoft

Everett Herald Business

LLNL

NIF and JLF User Groups Look Beyond Ignition to Bright Possibilities in Science

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Helion Energy

Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

NBC Bay Area

VIDEO: Fusion Reaction Celebrated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NIF Warp Core

Breakevens and breakthroughs: What fusion means for our energy future

DOE

Department of Energy Announces $45 Million for Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE)

DOE Office of Science

NIF

Following the US National Ignition Facility’s breakthrough last year, Nature looks at what’s next

ITER

Fusion and fission need each other

DigITER

DigITER: a program for the past, present and future

stellarator

A Strange 1950s Technology Could Finally Bring Fusion Energy to the Grid

CFS

US fusion firms to be leniently regulated by watchdog

TOKAMAK ENERGY LTD

Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test

laser-created plasma physics research

Scientists measure laser-heated plasma using Doppler weather forecasting technique

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

DIII-D National Fusion Facility Completes Highest-Powered Negative Triangularity Experiments in History of U.S. Fusion Research Program

NIF target chamber

Fusion Energy Reaches Prime Time

Avalanche Photo

‘Desktop fusion’ startup Avalanche Energy lands $40M and logs new tech achievement

LLNL

Irving-Based Fluor Signs On as Engineering and Construction Partner for a Laser Fusion Power Project

Dallas Inovates

Art

The Future History of Fusion Energy: Seven Fusion Startups

Falls Church News-Press masthead

Beyer Hails Regulatory Ruling on Fusion Energy

Falls Church News-Press

Natalie Peeples/Axios

Global fusion industry emerging in Seattle’s backyard

FIA

NRC Decision Separates Fusion Energy Regulation from Nuclear Fission

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Future Tech And Foresight podcast

When Will We Have Fusion Energy? Guest: Andrew Holland of FIA

Podcast: Future Tech And Foresight

Hero

Scientific advances have renewed hopes of “unlimited energy,” while economic studies suggest that fusion power will be more costly than wind or solar.

laser-created plasma physics research

Scientists measure laser-heated plasma using Doppler weather forecasting technique

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

PPPL Science Education Lab

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Takes on Sustainability Science

Princeton Alumni Weekly

stellarator

The stellarator: A clean energy idea whose time has finally come?

Financial Times (FT)

stellarator

Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs

Princeton University

Fusion’s future in the U.S. could come down to dollars and cents

Princeton University

UAF

UAF research contributes to progress on fusion energy

University of Alaska Fairbanks

ORNL

New ORNL partnership takes a deep look into plasma materials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

WHYY

Behind the scenes of a $200 million fusion experiment

ITER

ITER workforce: A truly cosmopolitan community

Sun

Here Comes Fusion. Will the Regulators be Ready?

The Breakthrough Institute

MIT Technology Review

Inside the government agency shaping the future of energy

MIT Technology Review

FY24 Budget

President’s Budget Requests Over $1 billion for Fusion Energy Funding

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

NIF

The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power

PPPL

Top Office of Science officials learn about PPPL’s expanded mission during February visit

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Tae Technologies

Experiment demonstrates alternative fusion scheme

fusion

Five Enabling Technologies A Fusion Industry Will Need

ITER

Tokamaks, Stellarators, Laser-based and Alternative Concepts: Report Offers Global Perspective on Fusion Devices

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Yahoo Finance

10 Most Advanced Countries in Fusion Energy

The Sun

Commonwealth Fusion Systems celebrates newest campus at Devens

NASEM

SHARE Investments in High Energy Density Science Could Help Address Significant National Needs, Says New Report

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)

Laser Focus World

Commercializing laser-driven fusion energy by 2030s will ‘take entire village’

Laser Focus World

NIF

Fusion Is About To Become A Must-Have Investment, DOE Official Says

reaction chamber

Startups try to turn laser fusion success into clean power plants

Telegram & Gazette

Clean energy revolution charges up with new fusion facility at Devens

Telegram & Gazette

Dennis White, at left, the cofounder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Bob Mumgaard, the company's CEO, at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

New Devens fusion center to host US energy secretary

CommonWealth Magazine

FT Film

VIDEO: Fusion power: how close are we?

Financial Times (FT)

The future of fusion energy

Innovation News Network

FY23 Budget Outcomes: DOE Office of Science

AIP - American Institute of Physics

TOKAMAK ENERGY LTD

Watch Fusion Energy Experiment Form Plasma: ‘You Can’t Take Your Eyes Off It’

NIF

Ignition Gives U.S. ‘Unique Opportunity’ to Lead World’s IFE Research

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

LLNL

The Geopolitics of Fusion Energy

Georgetown Security Studies Review

Financial Times

Fusion energy breakthrough sparks calls for more government backing

Financial Times

ITER Newsline

The Magic Cocktail of Deuterium and Tritium

Science Night

AUDIO: A Festival of Fusion: The 2022 Year in Review

Science Night Podcast

PPPL

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory selected to collaborate with start-up that licenses its innovative technology

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

Sun

How Close Are We to Nuclear Fusion for Limitless Energy?

FIA

Congressional Letters Urge Support for Fusion in Upcoming 2024 Budget

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

U.S. Department of Energy Top Accomplishments in 2022

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Bloomberg Businessweek

AUDIO: Harnessing the Power of the Stars – Steven Cowley and Will Wade discuss innovations in fusion energy production

Bloomberg Businessweek

PNNL

Metal Alloys to Support Nuclear Fusion Energy

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

KING5 News

Nuclear fusion company exploring Lewis County coal plant property

KING 5 News (NBC Seattle)

Lex Fridman Podcast #353

VIDEO: Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

Lex Fridman Podcast

FIA

8 out of 10 INFUSE Awards go to FIA members, advancing public-private partnerships

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

NIF

National Ignition Facility’s ignition milestone sparks fresh push for laser fusion

WEF 2023

VIDEO: Reaching for the Stars with Nuclear Fusion – David G. Victor (UCSD), Kimberly Budil (LLNL) and Philippe Knoche (Orano)

World Economic Fortum (WEF)

DOE Announces $2.3 Million for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

60 Minutes

VIDEO: Inside the nuclear fusion breakthrough that could be a step to unlimited clean energy in the distant future

CBS News – 60 Minutes

LLNL Ignition

What will the fusion breakthrough do for space exploration?

Fox News

OP-ED: I’m a video game developer but this technology to drop your energy bill $820 per year is no fantasy

Good Tech Awards

The 2022 Good Tech Awards

The New York Times

Inc.

Why Fusion Energy Is a Game Changer for Every Business

ITER

Nuclear fusion: The one relationship Russia and the West just can’t break

RFX

What the fusion breakthrough in the US means for Europe

ITER

Fusion energy is a reason to be excited about the future

University of Rochester

Viscosity presents a sticky plasma problem for fusion, high-energy-density experiments

University of Rochester

ANS

Conversation advancing in U.S. on fusion energy regulation

American Nuclear Society (ANS)

NIF target chamber

Fusion Breakeven Is a Science Breakthrough

The Breakthrough Institute

FIA

Congress Provides Record Funding for Fusion Energy

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Moniz

Fusion Power Is Possible in Next Decade, Former US Energy Chief Says

Illustration by Manuel Šumberac

Our fusion future

Discovery Research at Princeton Magazine

NIF

Here’s Why the Fusion Breakthrough—Decades in the Making—Matters

NIF

What you really need to know about that fusion news

MIT Technology Review

UW-Madison

UW–Madison has long been a leader in fusion research and education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIF

Nuclear Fusion Lab Achieves ‘Ignition’: What Does It Mean?

Scientific American

fusion

Unlimited Clean Energy Might Just Be 10 Years Away

NIF

Nuclear-Fusion Breakthrough Accelerates Quest to Unlock Limitless Energy Source

Wall Street Journal

NIF

The Significance of the Achievement of Scientific Energy Gain at the National Ignition Facility

DOE National Laboratory Makes History by Achieving Fusion Ignition

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

LLNL Ignition

National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

How far has nuclear fusion power come? We could be at a turning point for the technology

The Conversation

Vice Mother Board

Government Scientists ‘Approaching What is Required for Fusion’ in Breakthrough Energy Research

Engadget

Fusion power is ‘approaching’ reality thanks to a magnetic field breakthrough

ITER

Lehigh shares in $47 million DOE push to accelerate fusion energy research

Lehigh University

ITER Open Door Day

Open Doors Day: Accessing the very heart of ITER

Photo by Joakim Eskildsen

How Chloé’s Gabriela Hearst Turned Her Climate Obsession Into High Fashion

computer simulation of plasma

MSU helms $15M project to help make fusion energy a reality

MSU News – Michigan State University

ACEE

Princeton establishes Energy Research Fund

Princeton University

Workshop attendants

New SOLPS-ITER Code Version Launched

Ian Hutchinson

Ian Hutchinson: Probing Plasma

MIT’s NSE News

JET

Nuclear fusion has been a pipe dream for decades, but it might actually be on the cusp of commercial viability

Fortune Magazine

LLNL

LLNL researchers observe that ions behave differently in fusion reactions

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

NIF

Laser-driven fusion’s internal energies not matching up with predictions

tokamak plasma

PPPL awarded more than $12 million to speed development of a fusion pilot plant

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

Fusion Power Could Revolutionize Energy. The Hard Part Is Making It Work

Biden-Harris Administration Makes Historic Investment in America’s National Labs, Announces Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative

The White House

LLNL

Nuclear Fusion Experiment Reveals Unexpected Physics Inside ‘Burning Plasma’

Sally Benson

Pacific Northwest is a hub for fusion companies chasing power’s ‘holy grail’

MIT

Machine learning facilitates “turbulence tracking” in fusion energy experiment

APS PPPL

PPPL looms large at the 2022 APS-DPP annual meeting that drew participants from 29 nations

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

San Diego company plans to build a nuclear fusion plant. Will the pilot program work?

The San Diego Union-Tribune

LLNL

Magnetic Field Heats Up Fusion

Physics Magazine

For Net Zero

Net Zero Needs Fusion. What Should Investors Be Asking The Frontrunners?

Breakthrough Energy Summit

Investor Vinod Khosla says focusing on 2030 climate targets is the wrong approach

FIA

NRC Considers Regulatory Approaches for Fusion Energy

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Nuclear fusion power edges from fantasy to reality

Financial Times

FIA

FIA Submits Letters to the Treasury, Urging Fusion Tax Equality with Clean Energy

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

ALCF

Researchers accelerate fusion research with Argonne’s Groq AI platform

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

Nuclear Fusion and Climate Change: ‘We Need Every Technology We Can Get’

Nuclear Fusion May Be Nearer Than You Think

Morningstar – Market Insights

ITER

Harnessing the power of the sun in the quest for clean energy

ITER

Amid global energy crisis, U.S. and Russia still working together in quest for unlimited, clean power from nuclear fusion

Department of Energy Announces $47 Million for Research at Tokamak and Spherical Tokamak Facilities

DOE Office of Science

McKinsey Insights

Will fusion energy help decarbonize the power system?

McKinsey Insights

A new solution to one of the major problems of fusion research

Manchin at ITER

Federal Pivot to Supporting Commercial Fusion Energy Underway

AIP - American Institute of Physics

Atlantic Council

What to know about fusion

Atlantic Council

glowing

The biological theory that explains why investors are bullish on fusion

Zap Energy

Z-pinch fusion moves closer to breakeven

Power Engineering International

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

PSFC researchers honored with John Dawson Award

Vogue

Chloé — Gabriela Hearst dedicated her collection to the promotion of fusion

Screen shot

How Fusion Energy Turns Into Spaghetti to Smash up Tokamaks

ITER pano

Feds commit $50 million to for-profit nuclear fusion companies, chasing the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy

Department of Energy Announces $50 Million for a Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program

DOE Office of Science

red dwarf

Researchers Use NIF for Deep Dive into Interiors of Red Dwarfs

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Physicist Sophia Malko

New method for measuring high energy density plasmas and facilitating inertial confinement fusion

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

National Ignition Facility

National Ignition Facility’s laser-fusion milestone ignites debate

Dr. Pietro Barabaschi

ITER Council appoints new Director-General

TFTR

As Tokamaks Get Hotter, Scientists Must Control the Unruly Plasma Inside

Popular Mechanics

IIS

ITER International School: On Operation Scenarios and Control

Dr. Ahmed Diallo

Q&A with Dr. Ahmed Diallo, Program Director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Wendelstein 7-X

Twisty device explores alternative path to fusion

MIT NIF LLNL

MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment

DIII-D tokamak

Scientists Demonstrate Technique To Protect Fusion Devices From Sudden Energy Loss

Los Alamos Daily Post

Anne White

High-energy and hungry for the hardest problems

Bodner

Elemental research: Scientists apply boron to tungsten components in fusion facilities

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

Alcator C-Mod tokamak

Nuclear fusion power inches closer to reality

The Washington Post

Joy Dunn

Bridging careers in aerospace manufacturing and fusion energy, with a focus on intentional inclusion

Richard

The surprising attractiveness of a hurdle to developing safe, clean and carbon-free energy

PPPL – QUEST Research Magazine

DIII-D

The frontrunners in the trillion-dollar race for limitless fusion power

DOE’s Office of Science Is Now Accepting Applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards

DOE Office of Science

Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester

Construction begins on new Laser Lab expansion

University of Rochester

Granholm

Statement By Secretary Granholm On Final Passage Of The Inflation Reduction Act Of 2022

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

The Washington Post

The Inflation Reduction Act could push climate change tech into the future

The Washington Post

NIF

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition

Secretary Jennifer Granholm with Senator Joe Manchin (D–WV)

U.S. Department of Energy research gets a surprise boost in inflation-reduction bill

The Norman reactor

Corporations Join the Nuclear Fusion Craze

NIF main

Three peer-reviewed papers highlight scientific results of National Ignition Facility record yield shot

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the passage of the ‘CHIPS and Science Act’

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Princeton University

Three Cheers for the CHIPS and Science Act

Princeton University

FIA

FIA Support for Passage of the “CHIPS and Science” Bill

Fusion Industry Association (FIA)

Debbie Callahan

LLNL Physicist Debbie Callahan Receives Fusion Leadership Award

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

atom

Fusion Energy Breakthrough Set To Help Stabilize Plasma