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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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General Fusion Takes Aim at Practical Fusion Power

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It might be time to retire that overused joke about nuclear fusion always being 30 years away. Burnaby, British Columbia-based General Fusion plans to build a large-scale demonstration reactor at the UK's national fusion research laboratory campus in Culham near Oxford. It will not generate power.

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ARPA-E to award up to $10M to study cold fusion (LENR)

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ARPA-E acknowledges the complex, controversial history of LENR beginning with the announcement by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons (FP) in 1989 that they had achieved deuterium-deuterium (D-D) “cold fusion” in an electrochemical cell. Multiple books recount the history of “cold fusion” (now known as LENR). technological leadership.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Burns will advise and collaborate with the NPS executive team as they continue to scale the company globally and deliver the first all-in-one deeply integrated multi-modal sensor system focused on fully autonomous driving (Level 4 autonomy). He received a B.S. in Engineering/ Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D.

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How the EU Chips Act Could Build “Innovation Capacity” in Europe

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The European commission wants Europe to boost its share of global semiconductor production to 20 percent by 2030, from 10 percent today. That said, how much of the focus should be on getting that cutting-edge logic versus building on the strengths that you already have? You talked about building “capacity to innovate.”

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Ford launches the 1.5L EcoBoost engine; first in Mondeo, Fusion following; computer-controlled clutch on water pump

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The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe. The new 4-cylinder 1.5-liter million EcoBoost engines annually.

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