Google backs nuclear fusion startup targeting Europe’s first commercial power plant

Proxima Fusion has raised $468 million as it looks to move towards commercializing the promising but infamously difficult ...
Oak Ridge National Lab

Oak Ridge National Lab, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM achieve first-known computations of fusion materials on a quantum computer

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic and IBM (NYSE: IBM), have calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion ...
Nextgov

IBM, Oak Ridge and Cleveland Clinic unveil quantum-powered novel fusion energy research

A joint effort from IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Cleveland Clinic offers new perspectives into the near-term ...

This engineer literally lit up the world — and now wants to power it

Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything ...
New Atlas

General Atomics pushes ahead with self-fueling nuclear fusion tech tests

General Atomics has received tax-credit funding from the state of California to design and develop a new facility in San ...
world-nuclear-news

Tennessee becomes first US state to set up fusion regulations

Tennessee has become the first US state with its own regulatory framework for nuclear fusion machines. (Image: Type One Energy) In 2023, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it ...
Nature

Nuclear-fusion firm says plant will deliver electricity to grid — but big questions remain

One of the world’s leading private fusion companies, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has published a suite of papers that the firm says “confirm” that its ARC power plant, if built as intended, ...
WATE 6 On Your Side

Tennessee to become first state with nuclear fusion regulations

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee will soon be the first state with regulations on nuclear fusion machines as an Oak Ridge company continues to pursue the technology. Most nuclear plants use fission ...
CNBC

Nuclear fusion plants don't need huge fuel costs: Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO

Bob Mumgaard, Co-Founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems talks about nuclear fusion as a viable option of alternative energy. He also shares his thoughts on regulatory frameworks that countries ...
MarketWatch

Trump administration backs nuclear fusion — as a company tied to Trump invests in it

In October, the Trump administration released a “Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap” to support the construction of commercial fusion power plants as soon as the 2030s. It may not exactly resemble ...
Morningstar

Trump administration backs nuclear fusion - as a company tied to Trump invests in it

Trump Media & Technology is set to merge with a fusion power company, as the broader fusion sector is seeing new regulations and receiving boosts from the White House Trump Media & Technology Group is ...
CNN

This company says nuclear fusion could finally power the grid — and soon

A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun and stars onto the US electrical grid. Commonwealth Fusion ...