by Michael Heumann | May 22, 2025 | Fusion Energy
Highlights from the 2025 Ignition Summit, New York City On Tuesday May 20th, The Fusion Report attended the 2025 Ignition Summit at Newlab in New York City. The summit was booked as the meeting of leaders in both nuclear fission and fusion energy to discuss...
by Michael Heumann | May 20, 2025 | Fusion Energy
Interview with EMC2 Fusion: A Different Approach to Fusion Last week we had a discussion with Dave Mansfield of EMC2 Fusion, which came out of The Fusion Report article on “The Fusion Navy”. EMC2 Fusion’s approach (pictured above) is called a “Polywell”; it...
by Michael Heumann | May 15, 2025 | Fusion Energy
The Growing Role of State Governments in Funding Fusion Development A lot has been written lately about the pullback of U.S. federal government funding of science research under the Trump Administration. Examples of this include large cuts at the NIH (37%...
by Michael Heumann | May 13, 2025 | Fusion Energy
How Close Are We to Commercial Fusion? Maybe Closer Than You Think… A perennial (or even more often) question that you hear in this field of endeavor is “how close are we to having commercial fusion energy?” Last week, The Fusion Report (TFR) ran a story...
by Michael Heumann | May 8, 2025 | Fusion Energy
Key Fusion Energy Subsystems: Marx Generators If you have been around fusion energy for a while, you have probably heard the term “Marx Generator” before. Like me, you probably wondered what a Marx Generator is, how it is constructed, and what it is used for?...
