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• Pacific Fusion reports 440 GW milestone in pulser module scale-up – More than 1,000 qualification shots later, Pacific Fusion’s pulser module prototype had proved the case for factory-built fusion (Image courtesy of Pacific Fusion) Pacific Fusion has completed its second set of technical milestones, validating a scaled prototype of the pulser module at the heart of its fusion system. The prototype, roughly one-third the size of […]
• ITER tokamak assembly passes halfway as fifth sector module lands in pit – Five of nine vacuum vessel sectors now in place inside the ITER tokamak pit, with 200 degrees of the plasma chamber assembled and two further sector module installations scheduled before the end of 2026 (Image courtesy of ITER) Five of nine vacuum vessel sectors are now seated in the ITER tokamak pit following the successful […]
• General Fusion partners with General Atomics on LM26 plasma diagnostics – As General Fusion and General Atomics turn their attention to measuring plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius, the diagnostics race traces back to a machine that took under two years to build from the ground up (Image courtesy of General Fusion) General Fusion and General Atomics have announced a collaboration to develop advanced diagnostic systems […]
• Focused Energy closes record $240M laser fusion financing round – Record laser fusion financing is set to transform the Biblis site into the industrial blueprint Europe’s fusion industry has been waiting for (Image courtesy of Focused Energy) Focused Energy has raised $240 million in a Series A round, securing what the Darmstadt-based company says is the largest fully secured Series A financing in the global […]
• Thea Energy stellarator coil clears field strength test – Thea Energy’s Eos-spec planar shaping coil during testing at the company’s Kearny, NJ facility, where it generated a magnetic field above 6 T at 20 K, meeting the company’s stated performance requirements (Image courtesy of Thea Energy) Thea Energy has operated its first full-size, full-current, full-field planar shaping coil, a magnet milestone the company says […]
• GENE-X GPU upgrade targets full fusion plant simulation – Fusion plasma discharge glowing inside the JET tokamak chamber, showing the toroidal confinement geometry used in fusion plasma simulation research (Image courtesy of UKAEA / EuroFusion) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics are adapting the GENE-X fusion plasma simulation code to run on GPU-accelerated supercomputers, having already recorded performance gains of up […]
• Singapore enters fusion supply chain with A*STAR and CFS research pact – A*STAR’s Singapore research base is now formally tied to the global fusion energy supply chain through its five-year agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Image courtesy of A*STAR) Singapore has formalised a five-year research collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). The agreement targets technologies for commercial fusion […]
• Reinforcement learning agent controls DIII-D plasma shape through sensor failures – Inside DIII-D – the tokamak where a reinforcement learning agent took direct command of the coils (Image courtesy of General Atomics) A reinforcement learning agent has taken direct command of the magnetic coils on the DIII-D tokamak, tracking changing plasma shape targets while tolerating random sensor failures, and doing so without falling back on a […]
• TAE and UKAEA launch fully funded TAE Beam UK to commercialise neutral beam fusion tech – TAE Technologies and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) confirmed on 14 May 2026 that TAE Beam UK, their joint venture targeting particle accelerator technology for fusion and other markets, is formally established in the UK and fully funded. The announcement says the milestone advances the commercialisation of neutral beams,
• Kyoto Fusioneering wins QST contract to build tritium system prototypes for ITER – Tritium fuel cycle processing hardware of the kind being developed by Kyoto Fusioneering under its QST contract to build TES and TAS prototypes for ITER’s Test Blanket System (Image courtesy of Kyoto Fusioneering) Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) has been awarded a contract by the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) to develop prototypes of […]