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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05
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OCTOBER 21, 2022
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.
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Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2022
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. The awards will advance Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) technology for use in commercial fusion power plants through collaboration with the Savannah River National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At peak compression a fast burst of fusion is created.
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JANUARY 24, 2023
TAE Technologies , the world’s largest private fusion energy company, has spun-out a new subsidiary, TAE Power Solutions. The proprietary technology platform is derived from fusion research, and is a foundational step toward mass onboarding of electric vehicles and deployment of intermittent renewable energy as dispatchable power. The path to Power Solutions began with TAE solving a power problem for fusion. Batteries Electric (Battery) Fusion Market Background
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NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, and General Fusion have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pursue a series of joint projects to accelerate the deployment of commercial fusion power in Canada. Overall, the aim is to develop fusion energy research capabilities within CNL, to support the goal of constructing a potential General Fusion commercial power plant in Canada before 2030.
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JULY 26, 2022
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.
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OCTOBER 18, 2022
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.
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AUGUST 16, 2020
a Seattle-based start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor with an innovative approach to advancing cost-effective, flexible, and commercially scalable fusion. Nuclear fusion occurs when nuclei of lightweight elements (typically hydrogen) collide with enough force to fuse and form a heavier element—a process that releases substantial amounts of energy with no greenhouse gas emissions and limited long-lived radioactive waste.
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JULY 22, 2022
is designed to demonstrate the viability of achieving net energy generation with TAE’s advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC)—the penultimate step on TAE’s path to commercialize clean fusion power. billion for its commercial fusion development.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Fusion Fuel has entered the centralized electrolyzer market with the introduction of its HEVO-Chain solution. Render of Fusion Fuel’s HEVO-Chain hydrogen unit. —Jaime Silva, Chief Technology Officer of Fusion Fuel.
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Cross-cutting areas such as novel fusion materials and advanced and additive manufacturing for fusion-relevant materials, components, and their cost-effective scale-up.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 13, 2021
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.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California. The proposed project is a roughly 75 MW solar-to-hydrogen facility using Fusion Fuel’s HEVO technology ( earlier post ), capable of producing up to 9,300 tons of green hydrogen per annum including nighttime operation. —Jason Baran, Fusion Fuel’s Chief Commercial Officer.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2020
ITER , the world’s largest international scientific collaboration, is beginning assembly of the fusion reactor tokamak that will include 12 different essential hardware systems provided by US ITER, which is managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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AUGUST 16, 2020
These ELMs can damage the reactor walls and must be controlled to develop reliable fusion power. Scientists have learned to tame these ELMs by applying spiraling rippled magnetic fields to the surface of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions. The work presents important predictions for how to optimize the effectiveness of ELM suppression in ITER, the massive international fusion device under construction in the south of France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power.
Innovation News Network
JULY 28, 2022
UK Atomic Energy Authority and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a new agreement on 25 July 2022 committed to advancing fusion energy. The post UKAEA and Commonwealth Fusion Systems: Advancing fusion energy appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million in funding to support innovative R&D for a range of enabling technologies required for commercially attractive fusion energy. ( Cross-cutting areas such as novel fusion materials and advanced and additive manufacturing.
Innovation News Network
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Experts from EUROfusion discuss how public research helps the entire field to get fusion power ready for the grid. The post The path toward fusion power commercialisation appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Fusion Fuel ( earlier post ) completed the interconnection of its H2Évora plant to the Portuguese electric grid and has successfully commissioned the facility. HEVO is Fusion Fuel’s proprietary miniaturized PEM electrolyzer, designed to be small, lightweight, and mass-producible.
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JANUARY 9, 2023
INFINIQ demonstrated its sensor fusion annotation technology at the CES 2023 with lidar and camera sensors. The platform also can provide a sensor fusion annotation tool in which 2D images and 3D point-cloud data are synced and labeled simultaneously and 3D segmentation. INFINIQ is an AI data service provider that specializes in autonomous driving.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2022
Fusion Fuel will receive an estimated €10-million grant as part of Component 14 (C-14) of the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan to develop its 6.6MW HEVO-Industria green hydrogen project in Sines, Portugal.
Innovation News Network
AUGUST 15, 2022
Professor Kate Royse explains how UK organisations are collaborating to accelerate fusion energy technologies. The post Advancing fusion energy technologies in the UK appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Innovation News Network
DECEMBER 15, 2022
A fusion energy experiment has released more energy than it takes to initiate – a development that will revolutionise sustainable energy. The post Landmark fusion energy results spark the nuclear revolution appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Innovation News Network
OCTOBER 12, 2022
A group of scientists have devised a new operational regime that potentially solves the instability dangers of nuclear fusion reactors. The post Nuclear fusion reactor instabilities solved by new operational regime appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Innovation News Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology is collaborating to innovate solutions to the challenges stopping fusion energy commercialisation. The post KTH collaboration aims to overcome fusion energy challenges appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Innovation News Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Fusion energy is low-carbon and near limitless, meaning it could be the answer for powering the global energy transition. The post Could fusion be the ultimate energy of the future?
Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2020
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 13, 2021
Since the 1940s, physicists have tried, but no one has yet created an efficient nuclear fusion reaction. So could neural nets and the GPUs that power them help in nuclear fusion? AI and machine learning are not without their disadvantages in nuclear fusion systems.
Innovation News Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Department of Energy's efforts in commercialising nuclear fusion energy in the country. The post The edge of fusion energy commercialisation in the US appeared first on Innovation News Network. Learn everything about the U.S.
Innovation News Network
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Department of Energy's efforts in commercialising nuclear fusion energy in the country. The post The edge of nuclear fusion energy commercialisation in the US appeared first on Innovation News Network. Learn everything about the U.S.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 27, 2021
If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S.
Innovation News Network
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Heather Lewtas from the UK Atomic Energy Authority details the UK’s efforts to commercialise fusion energy. The post The road to commercialising fusion energy in the UK appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Innovation News Network
JUNE 29, 2022
Horizon EUROfusion is celebrating the start of conceptual designs for a power plant to develop clean and safe nuclear fusion energy. This nuclear fusion device […].
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
The US Department of Energy announced up to $30 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ). BETHE projects will support the development of timely, commercially viable fusion energy, aiming to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts.
Innovation News Network
JULY 29, 2022
A robot with a human touch, which is utilised to maintain a fusion energy machine – where temperatures can be hotter than the Sun – has been reunited with its identical twin for the first time since 1999.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2020
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a novel way to prevent magnetic bubbles, or islands, in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions—delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy devices.
Spark Powered
DECEMBER 29, 2022
News of a major breakthrough in fusion technology has recently swept through the media outlets. Not much yet, but most likely it will open the flood gates to additional funding for future fusion research. Image from Popular Mechanics.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2015
Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The stronger magnetic field makes it possible to produce the required magnetic confinement of the superhot plasma—the working material of a fusion reaction—but in a much smaller device than those previously envisioned.
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MAY 13, 2021
Ireland-based electrolyzer company Fusion Fuel Green PLC will collaborate with Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint. We are excited to bring Fusion Fuel’s revolutionary technology to the Middle East. —Joao Wahnon, Head of Business Development at Fusion Fuel.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Shot of Nuclear Fusion. An old saw regarding the multitude of dashed hopes about fusion energy’s promise goes “Fusion is 30 years away—and it always will be.” The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers.
Cars That Think
JULY 20, 2021
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