Helion Raises $465 million in Latest Funding Round Helion Energy closed a $465 million Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5 billion post-money valuation, the largest fusion VC round of 2026....
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Helion Raises $465 million in Latest Funding Round
Company nets largest VC fusion fund raise so far in 2026, becomes number two in fusion total private capital raised to date. At The Fusion Report, press releases about successful funding raises are...
Is ITER Even Relevant Anymore?
With a cost of at least 5x the most expensive commercial fusion machine being built today, is ITER really worth it? In covering fusion energy, The Fusion Report generally has focused on fusion...
Xcimer Energy Announces the Start of Operations for Its Phoenix Laser System Facility
The facility utilizes krypton fluoride excimer lasers and Stimulated Brillouin Scattering to produce nanosecond-scale laser pulses At The Fusion Report, we see a number of press releases cross our...
Pacific Fusion Completes Second Technical Milestones Towards Affordable Inertial Confinement Fusion Power
The company demonstrated they can achieve 440 gigawatts of peak output power from a scaled prototype of its IMG solution At The Fusion Report, some weeks are slow, which means that we run the...
This Week’s Fusion News: May 30, 2026
Things You Gotta Know Focused Energy Closes Record $240 Million Series A to Build Germany’s First Laser Fusion Power Plant Focused Energy announced on May 27 that it has raised $240 million in...
This Week’s Fusion News: May 22, 2026
Things You Gotta Know Fusion Energy Poised for Simpler U.S. Federal Review Fusion energy is on the cusp of a substantially lighter U.S. regulatory regime than fission. The Nuclear Regulatory...
Will Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence Robots be Powered by Fusion Energy?
For 99 years (at least in film), sentient robots have dominated our imagination, science fiction, and now our science. In a very real sense, fusion energy bridges the distance between science...
Where is Battery Energy Storage System Technology Going?
While lithium ion vehicles batteries are the leading BESS form factor/chemistry, are they the best tech for static deployments? In addition to covering fusion energy, The Fusion Report also...
This Week’s Fusion News: May 15, 2026
Things You Gotta Know CSIS: Fusion Lands on China’s 15th Five-Year Plan as a Frontier Priority China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) names fusion as one of eight “frontier technology” areas...
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