Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Type One Energy Sign Fusion Magnet Agreement

NearStar Fusion attracts investment from Virginia Venture Partners and Ecosphere Ventures

Astral Systems closes £4.5 million investment which will help it deliver compact fusion reactors to produce medical isotopes for cancer treatment and a test bed for materials for future fusion power plants 

Novatron Fusion achieves milestone with first plasma in its N1 machine

Tokamak Energy and the University of Birmingham win £1million funding to test shielding materials for high-temperature superconducting magnets

Kyoto Fusioneering delivers a new gyrotron system to Tokamak Energy, as part of upgrade to the ST40 tokamak

UK Atomic Energy Authority announces plan to purchase a neutron source as part of its LIBRTI lithium breeding and tritium innovation programme. Companies in The Fusion Cluster, including Amentum, Astral Neutronics, IDOM, Kyoto Fusioneering, Tokamak Energy and Oxford Sigma also win bids for tritium breeding and simulation experiments

UK Government announces £410 million funding for fusion

Members of The Fusion Cluster are among the companies shortlisted by UK Industrial Fusion Solutions to become STEP’s engineering and construction partners

UKAEA’s Culham Campus will be the first of the UK’s AI growth zones

UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Materials Processing Institute successfully produce 5.5 tonnes of fusion-grade steel in an electric arc furnace. The work has the potential to reduce produce costs by factor of 10

The world’s first fusion energy-themed café opens to raise awareness of fusion and engage the community near the STEP site in West Burton  

University of Illinois and Tokamak Energy partner to carry out research into liquid metal plasma-facing components for a fusion pilot plant 

General Fusion publishes peer-reviewed results confirming a stable plasma and significant numbers of neutrons in its compression experiments 

From over 200 startups, Renaissance Fusion have officially made the finals of the Start Innovation CIC Business Awards. Watch their public pitch (in French) on the Start Innovation CIC YouTube page. 

Type One Energy has been selected as one of the recipients of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program’s latest round of funding 

Fusion Fuel Cycles Inc, the joint venture between Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories announce the appointment of its new leadership team 

Tokamak Energy announces that it has raised $125 million to accelerate its high-temperature superconducting magnet technology

UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) will lead the creation of a new £4.9m nuclear robotics and artificial intelligence cluster across Cumbria and Oxfordshire 

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves visits Tokamak Energy

Kyoto Fusioneering will join the “FAST” fusion energy power generation demonstration project based in Japan

General Fusion has also been awarded funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alliance programme to support the development of cutting-edge diagnostic technology for its Lawson Machine 26 fusion demonstration 

Marvel Fusion celebrates the groundbreaking of their ATLAS laser facility

UKAEA’s CEO, Ian Chapman, responded to the UK Government’s 2024 budget announcement

Commonwealth Fusion Systems details new superconducting cable technology for magnets

Prof. Howard Wilson to lead science and techonlogy for STEP

Fusion Energy Inisights present three key insights from FusionXInvest:Japan

First design details of fusion energy pilot plant revealed by Tokamak Energy at top physics conference

UK Atomic Energy Authority restarts experimental campaign at MAST Upgrade

Novatron Fusion nears completion of its first official mirror-machine prototype at KTH, Stockholm 

Gauss Fusion opens France office to expand European presence

FortisBC Inc. joins General Fusion’s Market Development Advisory Committee

First Light Fusion records slow-motion videos of shock waves through its amplifiers at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble

Marvel Fusion announces it has secured 62.8 million euros in series B funding

STEPleadership transfers to UK Industrial Fusion Solutions

Jacobs has completed the spin-off of its critical missions solutions and cyber and intelligence business and a merger with Amentum 

Focused Energy to build world's first laser-based neutron souce for industrial use

Spot robot dog spends 35 days inspecting JET fusion facility without human intervention

Tokamak Energy appoints former Rolls-Royce chief engineer Itxaso Ariza as first chief technology officer 

Tokamak Energy launches TE Magnetics to open new fields of performance with transformative HTS technology

STEP team demonstrate technical progress to date by publishing 15 peer-reviewed papers in a special edition of Philosophical Transactions A   

Organisations in The Fusion Cluster among the recipients of 17 awards valued at $4.6 million by US Department of Energy’s INFUSE programme  

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The Fusion Industry Association has released its much anticipated 2024 report on the global fusion landscape 

First Light Fusion partners with leading European institutions in support of Magnetic Confinement Fusion research

Type One Energy Group finalizes $82.4M Seed financing round

Gainsborough STEPs forward to fusion energy

Kyoto Fusioneering Closes 2nd Round of 1.1 Billion Yen Series C Extension Led by In-Q-Tel (IQT), Marubeni and Nichicon

EIC Accelerator – 68 deep-tech start-ups in the latest funding round

AtkinsRéalis Appointed to Deliver Pre-Concept Design of Type One Energy’s Fusion Pilot Plant

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in the UK has published its latest public attitudes survey that includes questions about fusion energy. The results show a high level of awareness and steady support of fusion energy 

Focused Energy joins forces with RWE Nuclear to test laser technologies that can revolutionise non-destructive testing of nuclear waste containers at RWE's Biblis decommissioning facility

First Light Fusion solves major engineering challenge in the design of pilot power plant based on inertial confinement fusion

Digilab launches a new video series called “Machine learning for fusion”

Kyoto Fusioneering becomes the chair of J-Fusion, a new organisation that brings together more than 40 companies to accelerate fusion energy development

Tokyo metropolitan government selects Kyoto Fusioneering for open innovation project aimed at reducing the city’s carbon emissions to zero

General Fusion receives grant funding for an advanced spectrometer system to measure the plasma temperature inside the company’s LM26 fusion demonstrator

Tokamak Energy tests new laser technology that promises to provide vital information about the plasma conditions in a future fusion power plant

First results from Sandia National Lab’s Z Machine validate First Light Fusion’s amplifier technology, including simulation work, design and manufacturing

Gauss Fusion commissions a study to select a site suitable for Europe’s first gigawatt fusion power plant 

UKAEA completes upgrades to the remote handling system for JET that will be crucial for understanding repurposing and decommissioning work in fusion 

Kyoto Fusioneering has signed an agreement with UKAEA to partner on knowledge and skills relating to tritium breeding-blanket design 

Type One Energy announces plans to locate to Tennessee to build a prototype stellarator starting in 2025. Known as Infinity One, the machine will verify design features of a pilot stellarator power plant 

First Light Fusion conducts its first experiment on the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in the US and is awarded two additional shots in 2025 

JET’s final tritium experiments set a new fusion energy record

Machine learning expert digilab has formed a specialist fusion team 

UKAEA opens its first office at West Burton to support STEP

Digilab has released a new version of its Twinlab machine learning platform for engineers 

AtkinsRéalis, together with partners Jacobs and Longenecker and Associates, are awarded a contract worth up to $50 million by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to provide engineering support services 

The Fusion Industry Association appoints Cyrille Mai Thanh as European director 

Furukawa Electric invest in Tokamak Energy and sign a memorandum of understanding to progress commercial fusion energy and high-field magnets 

Kyoto Fusioneering and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology enter a strategic partnership that will initially focus on tritium handling 

Oxford Sigma’s co-founder Thomas Davis is appointed chair of an American Society of Mechanical Engineers subgroup that will advance qualification of fusion energy devices 

Proxima Fusion and Bilfinger begin testing prototype high-temperature superconducting magnets for stellarators 

Gauss Fusion selects the stellarator as the cornerstone for its fusion power plant

Five organisations secure contracts worth £7.4 million from UKAEA to develop lithium technology for fusion 

Kyoto Fusioneering has announced an agreement to supply two advanced gyrotron systems to General Atomics 

Oxford Sigma has led a workshop hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that will advance qualification of fusion energy devices 

Tokamak Energy selected by UK Government for Global Investment Summit innovation showcase

First Light Fusion has appointed Warren Edwards as head of procurement 

First Light Fusion joins the line up at the UK’s Global Investment Summit

Fusion Energy Insights has released a new podcast series called The Fusion Frontier: Investing in Tomorrow’s Energy 

Oxfordshire Advanced Skills has opened a new £13 million extension at UKAEA’s Culham Campus to train 90 extra apprentices 

UK and US form major partnership to accelerate global fusion energy development

The Fusion Cluster release skills report for the fusion industry. "Growing the fusion workforce: challenges and opportunities for the future"

The Fusion Industry Programme’s education scheme is now accepting applications for summer 2024.

Ansaldo and SIMIC are awarded contract to repair vacuum vessel bevels in ITER 

Ansaldo and SIMIC are awarded contract to repair vacuum vessel bevels in ITER 

Tokamak Energy attracts new Director Liam Brennan to lead superconductor magnets business

General Fusion appoints a new director from energy industry 

The UK government pass a wide-ranging set of energy laws called the Energy Act 2023

Focused Energy’s senior scientist Debra Callahan wins a prestigious award for work that optimises the implosion symmetry in inertial fusion 

General Fusion and TRIMUF sign MOU to develop key technologies for new LM26 fusion machine

First Light Fusion appoints Head of Power Plant as it targets commercial fusion in 2030

Paul Methven is announced as CEO of UK Industrial Fusion Solution (UKIFS), the company responsible for delivering STEP 

Kyoto Fusioneering announces a new management structure 

Thousands of new training places created as part of £650 million fusion package

Tokamak Energy appoints Christian Lowis from Rolls-Royce as first General Counsel

Tokamak Energy’s recent campaign improves the understanding of plasma exhausts in a spherical tokamak 

General Fusion and Kyoto Fusioneering sign MOU to accelerate commercialization of magnetized target fusion

UKAEA scientists use JET to understand how to protect the electronics in future fusion facilities from malfunctions caused by neutrons 

Warrick Matthews moves up to CEO of Tokamak Energy 

Commonwealth Fusion Systems take delivery of the cryostat for their SPARC machine and reveal progress in this video tour 

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Central Laser Facility (CLF) has been awarded £85 million by UKRI for a major upgrade programme.

Kyoto Fusioneering has announced that it is constructing a new R&D facility in Kyoto to test systems for harnessing heat for power generation and fuel cycle

Tokamak Energy superconducting fusion magnet system passes milestone cryogenic tests

First Light Fusion appoints Christophe Junillon as Chief Technology Officer

SIMIC has also completed the first three distribution boxes for the ITER cryodistribution plant 

Altrad Babcock and SIMIC are among the companies picked to supply cooling pipework for the ITER blanket in a contract worth up to €100 million 

Oxford Sigma and Tokamak Energy collaborate on first ASME power plant construction code and standards 

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has announced a strategic alliance agreement with Kyoto Fusioneering that covers tritium and pilot plant design and development 

Former UKAEA chief executive Norman Harrison joins the board of General Fusion 

Gauss Fusion appoints Newcleo founder Stefano Buono and former Siemens board member Siegfied Russwurm to the board 

JET’s final experimental campaign with deuterium and tritium fuels begins at UKAEA

Novatron Fusion Group closes seed round of EUR 5 million – accelerating the transformation to commercial fusion power

First Light Fusion and Sandia National Laboratories announce new collaboration to test amplifier technology on the Z Machine

Oxford Sigma expands company footprint by opening offices at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus

UKAEA has appointed four STEP directors: Chris Waldon, Sounak Dutta, Debbie Kempton and James Cowan 

General Fusion announces funding to build new fusion machine targeting scientific breakeven by 2026

Focused Energy and Oxford Sigma accelerate power station designs for fusion energy with long-term strategic collaboration

Marvel Fusion and Colorado State University enter public-private partnership

Tokamak Energy awarded eighth INFUSE grant by United States DOE

David Gann steps down as chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority to become the inaugural chair of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions

First Light Fusion working with IDOM to identify potential for producing vital cancer treating medical isotopes from its inertial fusion technology

Tokamak Energy and Sumitomo Corporation agree to collaborate on the development, implementation and scaling up of commercial fusion energy in Japan and worldwide

Fusion Energy Insights are now offering corporate memberships

Oxford Sigma signs an agreement with Golden Metal Resources to develop commercial pathways for the supply of tungsten from raw materials to the fusion community

Kyoto Fusioneering, Gauss Fusion, Focused Energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Tokamak Energy are among the 18 recipients of the US Department of Energy’s INFUSE awards totalling $4.6 million

Proxima Fusion completes its pre-seed fundraising for €7 million

Tractebel supports First Light Fusion in making inertial fusion a reality

Gauss Fusion, Focused Energy and Proxima Fusion have announced a strategic partnership

UK Atomic Energy Authority partners with EqualEngineers to provide free mentoring to 75 students from underrepresented backgrounds

The Fusion Industry Association’s 2023 survey of fusion companies is now available to download, featuring 18 new companies 

Gauss Fusion appoints a new senior leadership team headed by CEO Milena Roveda

Oxford Sigma team up with UKAEA to develop ways to manufacture novel tungsten plasma-facing components for fusion power plants

Fusion Industry Association appoints Dr Nick Walkden as UK Director

Digilab have been registered onto the Ethical AI database

UKAEA joins forces with Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge to explore how supercomputers and artificial intelligence can deliver a digital twin of the STEP prototype power plant

UKAEA celebrates the Joint European Torus's 40th anniversary

Focused Energy raises an additional $11 million in Series A funding, bringing its total to $82 million

Public awareness of fusion in the UK has increased to its highest level recorded to date, according to the latest UK government survey

UKAEA awards £6.8 million of contracts to further fusin energy development

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research release a position paper on fusion research

Dounreay and NDA launch innovative twelve-month robotics and sensing programme

Dr Rick Spielman joins First Light Fusion's Scientific Advisory Board

General Atomics X Tokamak Energy

Commonwealth Fusion Systems hit a milestone of 500 employees and counting

First Light Fusion awarded £6 million

Warren East joins Tokamak Energy Board

Fusion Industry Association releases supply chain report

Kyoto Fusioneering secures $79 million in oversubscribed series C funding round

UKAEA appoints new CFO and COO

Tokamak Energy's breakthrough fusion magnets set for extreme power plant test in U.S.

UKAEA calls upon international robotics community to help develop fusion energy

Jacobs to Design Maintenance Systems for World's Largest Fusion Experiment

First Light Fusion X Oxfordshire Advanced Skills apprenticeship in precision manufacturing

Fusion CDT offering a carer fund

Fusion Industry School registration deadline extended

First look at Tokamak Energy fusion power plant

Kyoto Fusioneering X Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Search starts for Tokamak Energy's first engineering apprentices

UKAEA and Korea Institute of Fusion Energy sign MOU for remote handling for future fusion powerplants

UKAEA and Kyoto Fusioneering sign agreement to advance materials for commercial fusion energy

Tokamak Energy launch its fusion pioneers videos series

Fusion Industry Association sends letter to European Parliament

SPRIND creates infrastructure for laser-driven fusion

Fusion research software could help bolster energy grid resilience

Kyoto Fusioneering claims grand prize at City-Tech Toyko Challenge

Tokamak Energy to build new advanced prototype at Culham 

First Light Fusion to build next machine at Culham

National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition 

General Fusion's prototypes exceed performance targets

Tokamak Energy launches its first STEM outreach programme

UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Satellites Applications Catapult partner on robotics technology 

First Light Fusion targets 60 MW pilot plant to accelerate tritium production 

Oxford Sigma and M5tec develop conceptual manufacturing plan for plasma-facing components of future fusion power stations 

The UK government announces £126.1 million funding for fusion.

Tokamak Energy unveils plans to build ST80-HTS spherical tokamak using high-temperature superconducting magnets 

Tokamak Energy announces highest triple product achieved by a private fusion company 

Kyoto Fusioneering selected by Hello Tomorrow as one of the most promising start-ups in the deep-tech sector

General Fusion fabricate test version of one of the 11 steel rings that will make up its vacuum vessel

Fusion22 talks now free to view online

Tokamak Energy signs five-year deal with UK Atomic Energy Authority to develop spherical tokamak technology for commercial fusion energy

General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority sign collaboration agreement to advance commercialisation of magnetised target fusion energy

West Burton announced as home to the STEP fusion prototype power plant 

UK Atomic Energy Authority and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announce new trans-Atlantic agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

First Light strikes long-term collaboration agreement with engineering leaders

New building to drive innovation at Culham