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Nuclear fusion

  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Germany’s Marvel Fusion raises €113mn as nuclear fusion race heats up

    EQT Ventures and Siemens Energy among new backers in Munich-based start-up’s latest funding round

    Inside Marvel Fusion lab
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    US nuclear fusion start-up backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel secures $425mn

    Lightspeed and SoftBank’s second Vision Fund among Helion’s new investors in latest funding round

    Helion’s Polaris reactor
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
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    The UK nuclear fusion start-up helping the US develop stealth submarines

    Collaboration with Darpa agency among ways Tokamak Energy is seeking to monetise its magnet breakthroughs

    Diagram of the components of Demo4, Tokamak Energy’s tokomak demonstrating high-temperature superconducting magnets
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
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    EU rebuffs UK attempt to continue collaborating on nuclear fusion experiment

    Bloc tells London it will be locked out of Iter project in France within months unless it rejoins civil atomic programme

  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
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    Experiment was ‘fitting swansong’ for UK’s JET facility outside Oxford

    The Joint European Torus facility outside Oxford
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
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    Germany should go big on nuclear fusion energy

    The country must act fast to avoid being overtaken by international competitors

    ‘Wendelstein 7-X’ at the Max-Planck-Institute for plasma physics in Greifswald, Germany,
  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    Nuclear fusion: from science fiction to ‘when, not if’

    Energy gain breakthrough has raised hopes for a technology long seen as decades from reality

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
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    Commercial use is many years away but investors should start thinking through the implications now

    A scientist working at the National Ignition Facility in California
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Nuclear fusion power edges from fantasy to reality

    Investors are crowding in on the promise of ‘unlimited clean energy’

    Members of the research team look at test results in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade
  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    Chevron Corp
    Chevron invests in Google-backed nuclear fusion group pursuing ‘perfect power’

    Funding for TAE Technologies comes as money pours into sector promising abundant, zero-carbon energy

    A TAE employee dressed in protective clothing
  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    Energy sector
    European scientists in ‘landmark’ nuclear fusion breakthrough

    Experiment at UK’s JET facility boosts hope that clean power source could soon be harnessed commercially

    A nuclear fusion reactor
  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    European industrial giants join nuclear fusion race

    Siemens Energy, Thales and Trumpf to ‘jointly develop’ promising technology with German start-up Marvel Fusion

    An artist’s impression of Marvel Fusion’s future power plant
  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    Tiger Global Management LLC
    Tiger Global-backed nuclear fusion group secures $1.8bn in funding

    Commonwealth Fusion Systems boosted by investors including Bill Gates’ fund

    Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a sustainable energy investment fund founded by Bill Gates, was among the investors in this CFS funding round
  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    The Big Read
    Nuclear fusion: why the race to harness the power of the sun just sped up

    Advances in technology and funding have sparked optimism in an area that has promised much but delivered little in six decades

    An illustration of the nuclear fusion process in a tokamak — a toroidal chamber with magnetic coils
  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    Renewable energy
    Record fundraising by a nuclear fusion start-up

    Helion secures $500m investment in latest sign of investor confidence in the technology

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Investors warm to nuclear fusion’s promise of clean cheap power

    Replicating the reaction that powers the sun has tantalised scientists for more than 60 years

    An employee at Commonwealth Fusion Systems
  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    UK seeks site for first nuclear fusion power station

    Prototype to pave way for plants which would provide large amount of Britain’s energy

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Science
    Two British companies confident of nuclear fusion breakthrough

    Both groups have set ambitious goal of delivering working reactor by 2030

    Hydrogen plasma in ST40 reactor at Tokam hot hydrogen plasma in Tokamak Energy's ST40 reactor (credit: Tokamak Energy)
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