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Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the world's top-funded private firm among those seeking to generate power by replicating the nuclear ​reaction that takes place in stars, said that peer-reviewed papers ...

Trump Media is entering the nuclear fusion sector through a $6 billion merger with TAE Technologies. TAE aims to build its first utility-scale fusion plant by 2026. The deal highlights intensifying ...

There is a well-known saying among nuclear physicists that commercial nuclear fusion is about ten years away – and always will be. But a series of announcements by American startups and state-backed ...

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The US has certainly spent the year opening doors to dramatically increase domestic energy production. Part of that has to give the signal that the US will embrace nuclear power in ways it hasn't for ...

Startup Inertia Enterprises Inc. today announced that it has raised $450 million in funding to build a laser-powered fusion reactor. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. It was joined by Alphabet ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems received the zoning approval needed for its planned Chesterfield County facility that’s expected to be the world’s first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion power plant.

US private fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems has applied to connect its first ARC fusion power plant to PJM Interconnection, the largest US competitive wholesale electricity market. The plant ...

Reporting on the world’s first experiment * to irradiate targets continuously for one hour by applying high-energy pulsed lasers. Pictured: Hamamatsu Photonics' laser fusion experiment facility and an ...