No commercial fusion power plant is operating anywhere in 2026, and none is connected to a grid. What changed this year is engineering, not physics: the US DOE…
British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington suggested that stars generate energy by fusing hydrogen into helium, laying the theoretical foundation for everything that follow…
Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich reported unprecedented plasma temperatures and confinement times inside the T-3 tokamak, results independently verified by a Bri…
The EU, US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and India sign the ITER Agreement, founding the largest international fusion research collaboration in history, with India…
Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility delivers 2.05 megajoules of laser energy to a fuel target and measures 3.15 megajoules of fusion energy back, a real, ind…
Helion reports its seventh-generation Polaris prototype became the first privately developed machine to demonstrate measurable deuterium-tritium fusion, with plasma temp…
The US Department of Energy finalises its Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap targeting a mid-2030s pilot plant. Days later, Helion becomes the first company ever to hol…
ITER lowers the sixth of nine roughly 1,100-tonne vacuum-vessel sector modules into the tokamak pit on July 28-29, putting two-thirds of the core in place about six mont…
China's Institute of Plasma Physics completes a 582-tonne superconducting magnet, described as the world's largest, for the BEST tokamak, clearing a major hurdle toward…
Helion's Orion plant is targeting at least 50 MW of electricity for Microsoft starting in 2028, ramping to full output over roughly a year, under the world's first fusio…
China targets a BEST electricity-generation demonstration around 2030; Commonwealth Fusion Systems targets its roughly 400 MW ARC plant for the early 2030s; ITER's deute…
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