FUSION ENERGY NEWS

The UK cemented its bid for fusion leadership this week with a £1.3 billion National Fusion Energy Strategy and a £70 million STEP magnet contract awarded to Tokamak Energy. General Fusion named Ontario Power Generation Board Chair Wendy Kei to its Board as it prepare…

The third installment of The Fusion Decathlon series turns to magnetic fusion energy (MFE) solutions. The article traces the 75-year arc of tokamak development from the Soviet T-1 to ITER and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ SPARC, then examines stellarators from Germany’s …

Inertia Enterprises announced one of the largest private sector-led collaborations in the history of the U.S. national lab system, signing two Strategic Partnership Projects and a CRADA alongside a licensing agreement covering nearly 200 LLNL patents. Separately, the DO…

The 2026 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit came to San Diego with a packed agenda and a complicated message for the fusion industry. Fission is getting the political tailwind, China is outspending the US on fusion by a wide margin, and AI is accelerating energy demand in …

A wave of federal funding headlines this week’s fusion news, with ARPA-E committing $135 million and SHINE securing a $263 million conditional DOE loan. TAE Technologies is scouting sites for its first power plant, Pulsar Fusion hit a propulsion milestone, and CSIS is s…

Part two of The Fusion Decathlon examines why different fusion approaches face different commercial challenges. This installment breaks down the specific engineering hurdles confronting inertial fusion energy: driver efficiency, target manufacturing, repetition rate, an…