Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:57:15 +0000
Longview Fusion Energy, a firm leveraging the recent fusion breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), has secured a contract with engineering, procurement, and construction specialist Fluor to design what […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:00:30 +0000
A major U.S. utility is part of a fusion energy project that would be located at the site of one of the company’s retired coal-fired power plants. Type One Energy […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 22:07:53 +0000
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the U.S. is ready to work with other governments on research and development of nuclear fusion, as part of efforts to produce more carbon-free […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:23:29 +0000
Nucor Corp., a manufacturer of steel and steel products, and Helion, a fusion energy company, are collaborating to develop a 500-MW fusion power plant to supply baseload electricity to a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:51:40 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the first round of awardees of the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The program is the latest in a series of efforts designed to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 15:46:40 +0000
Software giant Microsoft on May 10 announced it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy to buy electricity from Helion as soon as 2028. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Thomas W. Overton| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:19:54 +0000
Over the last three years, electricity generation from fusion has moved from the realm of science fiction to the brink of serious development. A lot has happened, but challenges remain before fusion arrives on
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:58:42 +0000
Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) giant Fluor Corp. will serve as an engineering and construction partner to design and plan laser fusion power plants developed by Longview Fusion Energy Systems—a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:30:13 +0000
A California-based group said it has completed the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments to produce a sustainable fuel for utility-scale fusion power. TAE Technologies on Feb. 28, in a peer-reviewed paper published by the scientific journal Nature Communications, said its research supports the path to providing electricity from nuclear reactors fueled with hydrogen-boron, also known as […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:19:00 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the process by
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