How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it | TechCrunch Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.

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Openstar hit another step on their development. Nice one. Fusions now only 9 1/2 years away ;-)

They'd better have some good degreaser given how many politicians they had on site. It would be handy if they had a nuclear incerator handy....

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Advanced Plasma Sensors Could Be Key to Unlocking Commercial Fusion Power Fusion energy has the potential to be a significant source of clean energy, but researchers face challenges in measuring the extreme and fast-moving plasmas necessary for fusion reactions. A new report, backed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), stresses the need for investment in advanced diagnostic tools—sensors that track plasma's temperature, density, and behavior inside fusion devices. These sensors are crucial to ensuring the safe and efficient operation of fusion reactors. The DOE's 2024 workshop gathered experts from universities, national laboratories, and private industries to identify priority areas for improving plasma measurement technologies. Key recommendations include developing more durable sensors for extreme radiation environments, improving AI and machine learning tools to speed up measurement system design, and fostering a strong workforce to support the growing field. The workshop's findings also support the DOE's roadmap for advancing fusion power, which aims to establish a competitive U.S. fusion energy industry by the mid-2030s. This report highlights the critical role of diagnostics in making commercial fusion energy a reality and accelerating America's leadership in plasma science.

Advanced Plasma Sensors Could Be Key to Unlocking Commercial Fusion Power

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Your Life is Changing in 2026: 15 Breakthroughs MIT Says You Can't Ignore Are you ready for the day the world actually changes? By 2026, the 'future' isn't just a concept—it's a deadline. In this episode, we dive deep into the MIT-predicted 15 transformative technologies that are moving from the sterile labs into our daily reality. From Agentic AI taking over the software lifecycle to the controversial resurrection of Ancient DNA, we are standing at the edge of a global reorganization. In this episode, we explore: - The Intelligence Evolution: Why Autonomous AI Agents and Generative Coding mean the '10x developer' might be a thing of the past. - Energy Sovereignty: How Fusion Power, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and Perovskite solar cells are decentralizing the global grid. - Biological Engineering: The high-stakes world of de-extinction technology and the ethics of CRISPR base editing for newborns. - The New Infrastructure: From Urban Air Mobility (eVTOL) to the commercialization of the stars via Orbital Space Stations. - The Quantum Threat: Why your current security is a ticking time bomb and how Quantum-secure encryption is the only way out. Is this a tech utopia or a 'Jurassic Park' reality check? We break down the expert analysis on why Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) threats make 2026 the most critical year for your digital survival. Don't get left behind in the old world. Hit that subscribe button, join the conversation in the comments, and share this with someone who needs a 2026 reality check! ☑️ Subscribe for more insider perspectives on the future of humanity.  

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⚓Helion Captures the Sun’s Inner Fire To Boil the Very Heavens

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Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV | TechCrunch Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV #Technology #Business #Startups #Twilio #FusionPower #InvestmentNews

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China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean...

Can I speak to someone actually Chinese?

If I am buying a fission reactor I will very surely buy a standard one from them and not anything from anyone with such poor research and argument skills as yourself.

Also if deuterium #fusionpower works it'll be them
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Hiermit präsentieren wir den #Europa 🇪🇺 „Fernfusion? Ja, Bitte“ - Aufkleber.

Ab sofort als Beilage bei der Bestellung unseres Patch.

Danke an den Gestalter für seine geniale Aufkleber Vorlagen.

Auch was für MdeP wie @michabloss.bsky.social

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The US is literally wasting trillions on LNG, nuclear and wildly expensive pre sodium ion batteries. It failed to shift transport to EV.

China is following careful paths: replacing coal plants with high temperature boilers equally useful for #thorium or #p11b #fusionpower later. It put EV first.

⚛️ Physicists' hot new recipe for fusion power: Just add some heat! 🔥

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Reactor-grade fusion plasma: First high-precision measurement of potential dynamics Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source for the future. To achieve fusion power generation, it is essential to confine plasma at temperatures exceeding one hundred million degrees using a magnetic field and to maintain this high-energy state stably.

Harnessing the power of the sun on Earth! ✨ Scientists strive to contain 100M° plasma with magnets for limitless, sustainable energy.🤯 #FusionPower

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Exotic Engineering: Fusion on the Fly — The Race to Power the Impossible Can compact fusion reactors power impossible flight? Inside the race to build the energy source exotic aircraft have been waiting for.

Could compact fusion reactors finally power the “impossible”?

Inside *Exotic Engineering: Fusion on the Fly* — the race to turn fusion into flight.

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Investors Have Poured Nearly $10 Billion Into Fusion Power. Will Their Bet Pay Off? Some companies claim they’ll be supplying power commercially within a decade. How likely is that? Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested...

Investors Have Poured Nearly $10 Billion Into Fusion Power. Will Their Bet Pay Off? #Science #Energy #TechnologyandEngineering #FusionPower #CleanEnergy #InvestmentTrends

How will energy independence reshape global economics? Answer: Fusion Power Grids will end energy scarcity forever! When fusion power becomes commercially viable, countries with fusion technology will have unlimited clean energy while others struggle with fossil fuel dependence. Fusion-powered nations will dominate manufacturing, computing, and every energy-intensive industry, reshaping global power structures permanently. like & follow @OfficialMillionDollarQuestion @officialmdq

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Plasma rampdown prediction model could improve reliability of fusion power plants Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun's core and push the plasma's atoms to fuse and release energy. If tokamaks can operate safely and efficiently, the machines could one day provide clean and limitless fusion energy.

✨ Scientists are building stars on Earth! ☀️ Tokamaks use magnets to contain plasma hotter than the sun, aiming for clean, limitless energy.🤯 #fusionpower

Source: phys.org/news/2025-10-plasma-ramp...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, is planning to construct a fully operational #tokamak & is on the way to #building a power plant that can bring nuclear #fusion #power to grid, something which has never been done.

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How Three Fusion Reactor Designs Could Power Tomorrow Inertial confinement reactors, stellarators and tokamaks each have pros and cons

SciAm usually does a good job explaining things but this is just so exceptionally well done I feel a need to boost it. #SciAm #fusionpower #greenenergy

Super-X' design shows major advantages in handling hot exhaust of fusion energy Temperatures of more than 10,000°C and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel (plasma): These are extreme conditions that the exhaust wall (divertor) of future fusion power plants will need to withstand. It makes handling the exhaust stream one of the main challenges to realizing clean, safe and affordable commercial fusion power plants.

🤯 Fusion's fiery heart! Walls must survive 10,000°C & particle storms. Taming this exhaust is key to limitless, clean energy! ✨ #fusionpower

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Nuclear waste might one day be used to create tritium to fuel fusion power plants Los Alamos National Lab team is modelling the efficiency and cost of reactor designs that can generate tritium from waste

Nuclear waste might one day be used to create tritium to fuel fusion power plants #Science #Energy #NuclearPhysics #FusionPower #NuclearEnergy #SustainableEnergy

Wrapping up August – a month of progress, forging new partnerships, and exciting steps forward on the journey to deliver the UK’s first prototype fusion energy plant at West Burton ⚡

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#STEPFusion #FusionFuture #FutureOfEnergy #FusionPower

Nuclear fusion developer raises almost $900mn in new funding Commonwealth Fusion Systems wins backing from investors including Nvidia and Morgan Stanley

"CFS" is a unfortunate acronym for an energy generator ... Destined to fail?

#mecfs #cfs #FusionEnergy

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Nuclear fusion developer raises almost $900mn in new funding

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New paper just out today: *A dynamic model of a power conversion system with indirect thermal energy storage for a pulsed fusion tokamak for use in design optimisation*.

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Main theme: Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) for Sedna. Potential vs. skepticism. Mentions Pulsar Fusion & PPPL progress, but questions tech readiness & Helium-3 availability. #FusionPower 2/5

UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't UPDATED: STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished

"UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't"

One has to wonder about the English government's energy priorities.

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#ElectricPropulsion* isn't #SciFi

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* en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecr...
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#IonDrives
#StarTalkPlus

#ElectricPropulsion* isn't #SciFi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iJz_Byo4IU

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_electric...

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Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in nuclear fusion research On May 22, the latest experimental campaign concluded at the world's most powerful nuclear fusion device of the stellarator type. Through collaboration between researchers from Europe and the U.S., Wendelstein 7-X achieved, among other milestones, a world record in a key parameter of fusion physics: the triple product. This value now exceeds previous tokamak records for long plasma durations.

✨Fusion breakthrough!🌍 Wendelstein 7-X shattered records, achieving a new high in plasma duration—a leap toward limitless, clean energy!🤯 #fusionpower

Source: phys.org/news/2025-06-wendelstein...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Moves Forward with Virginia Nuclear Fusion Project Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a Massachusetts-based company, has initiated the process of obtaining local zoning approval for a substantial nuclear fusion energy project in Chesterfield, Virginia. The company recently submitted a conditional-use permit application to Chesterfield County for the planned power plant, slated for a 94-acre site located at 1201 Battery Brooke Parkway. The Chesterfield project aims to be the first commercial nuclear fusion power plant globally. CFS anticipates construction to begin in the late 2020s, with the plant expected to be operational in the early 2030s. The facility, named ARC, is projected to generate 400 megawatts of electricity, enough to power approximately 150,000 homes. Dominion Energy currently owns the land, and CFS has secured an option-to-lease agreement for the site. The project is expected to create around 150 full-time jobs. CFS, which identifies as the world’s largest private fusion company, was established in 2018, originating from MIT as a business venture. The company has amassed over $2 billion in investment and employs more than 1,000 people. The Chesterfield project was publicly announced late last year, with Governor Glenn Youngkin describing it as a “multi-billion-dollar” undertaking. The zoning application will be reviewed by the Planning Commission before a final decision by the Board of Supervisors. In addition to local approval, the project requires state and federal permits. The SPARC, CFS’s prototype fusion machine, is currently under construction at the company’s campus in Devens, Massachusetts, with a 75-ton stainless steel base recently installed. SPARC utilizes powerful magnets to confine a hot plasma, enabling nuclear fusion to occur. Recent reports indicate CFS is in the process of raising over $1 billion in capital, with funds specifically allocated to the Chesterfield project. GreeneHurlocker's Ann Neil Cosby is representing CFS in the zoning process, and Timmons Group is serving as the project's engineer.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Moves Forward with Virginia Nuclear Fusion Project #PJM #Energy #NuclearFusion #FusionPower #VirginiaProject #SustainableEnergy