nuclear fusion
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology.
Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion
Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants.
If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power. That is, if the sector’s startups are able to…
Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality
Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion…
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Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs
The company is betting that outsourcing will fast-track its unique fusion reactor designs.
Renaissance Fusion raises $16.4 million to build nuclear fusion technology in Europe
Meet Renaissance Fusion, a Grenoble-based startup that has been working on nuclear fusion for the past couple of years. The company recently raised $16.4 million (€15 million) in funding in…
A range of new fusion power companies are racing to build the supply chain for what could become a $40 trillion industry.
World-record fusion experiment produced even more energy than expected
Commercial fusion is still probably decades away, but promising results show how we might get there.
Breakthrough fusion power announcement expected tomorrow. Here’s what it means
For decades, fusion power has been just around the corner. Is this the moment we’ve all been waiting for?
The biological theory that explains why investors are bullish on fusion
Investors are betting large amounts of money on fusion. Here’s why they’re so confident the technology has banished the ghosts of its past.
Zap Energy nets $160M Series C to advance its lightning-in-a-bottle fusion tech
Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-free energy — a $160 million Series C round, and a successful test…
Kyoto Fusioneering secures $11.7M to build out its fusion reactor technologies
With startups getting into nuclear technology, it’s no surprise to see more fundraising happening. Now, Kyoto Fusioneering, a fusion energy startup based out of Japan but increasingly expanding abroad, has…
Laser-initiated fusion leads the way to safe, affordable clean energy
Fusion power plants will eventually replace most conventional power plants and related large-scale energy infrastructure that are still so dominant today. There will be no need for coal or gas.
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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The 20-year-old fusion energy technology developer TAE Technologies said its reactors could be operating…
Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it
In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke has joined the company’s cap table.…
With $84 million in new cash, Commonwealth Fusion is on track for a demonstration fusion reactor by 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems closed on its latest $84 million in new funding two weeks ago. The U.S. was still very much in the lockdown phase and getting a deal done,…
A Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a roughly $50 million boost
After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions. Commonwealth Fusion…
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing,…
