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General Fusion announces funding to build new fusion machine targeting scientific breakeven by 2026

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Canada-based General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works.

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General Fusion advances with fabrication of at-scale fusion vessel trial ring

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Construction of General Fusion’s demonstration machine, which is being built at the UK Atomic Energy Agency’s Culham Campus, advanced significantly with the fabrication of an at-scale fusion vessel trial ring by Sheffield Forgemasters. The vessel is designed to be modular, made up of 11 steel rings bolted together on site.

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General Fusion receives two funding awards from DOE to advance Magnetized Target Fusion technology

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The US Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Science’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program. In MTF, a magnetized plasma target formed into a liquid metal flux conserver (liner) is rapidly compressed to fusion conditions.

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DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $46 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002809 ) to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants. This funding is from the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA). Realta Fusion Inc.

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PPPL researchers find way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion devices

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Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan).

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Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy to develop 75 MW green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California; Fusion Fuel’s first US project

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Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California. Fusion Fuel has engaged Black & Veatch to perform a concept study and is also working with Cornerstone Engineering and Headwaters Solutions.

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Fusion Fuel awarded €3.6m in grant funding for 1MW green hydrogen mobility project in Portugal

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Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 Fusion Fuel had previously been awarded €36 million in C-5 funding for its “Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance” consortium. Fusion Fuel’s scope for the project—green hydrogen production and compression to 40 bar—is expected to require approximately €7.2 Earlier post.)

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