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Government Kicks off Search for Site of UK's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant

UK takes a major step forward in its plans to commercialise a nuclear fusion power plant by 2040, inviting local communities to submit bids to host the country'…

Nuclear Fusion

South Korea’s Artificial Sun Sets New Record

The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy announced on Nov. 24 that it succeeded in operating 100,000,000°C plasma, which is a core condition for nuclear fusion, fo…

Nuclear Fusion

ITER Says Schedule Maintained Despite COVID-19

The Council of the ITER Organisation said on 19 November that it had reviewed in a videoconference the performance of the ITER Project toward first plasma in vi…

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ITER - The World's Largest Puzzle

​ITER will be world's largest experiment facility to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility fusion power.

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Canada Agrees to Participate in ITER Fusion Project

After leaving the Iter project in 2003, Canada has now signed a cooperation agreement with the ITER Organisation for the transfer of Canadian-supplied tritium, …

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Hotter Than the Sun: ITER and the Pursuit of Nuclear Fusion

There’s a running joke that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away.

This New Nuclear Battery Could Power Deep Space Missions for Decades

​In April of 2020, NASA researchers announced they had come up with a new approach to fusion that has the potential to power missions into deep space, and mayb…

Nuclear Fusion

China Eyes Limitless Clean Energy Through Fusion Reactions

​Chinese scientists have built a device that can sustain fusion reactions to produce a limitless source of energy.

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Doosan Heavy Industries to Supply Pressurizer for ITER Fusion Project

Doosan Heavy Industries will supply a pressurizer for the massive, multi-national nuclear fusion research project – ITER – in southern France.

United States

US Announces Funding for Fusion and Carbon Capture Technologies

The US Department of Energy has announced $72m in funding for carbon capture technologies and $29m for fusion research projects.

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ITER: The $65 Billion Power Plant of the Future

​A $65 billion nuclear fusion reactor called ITER is being constructed in southern France.

Nuclear Fusion

Building The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Reactor

70 years after the first energy was made using nuclear power at an experimental station near Arco, Idaho, nuclear energy remains at the heart of a contentious d…

Nuclear Power Plant

Seven Parties Including China, the United States, Russia and India Join Forces to Build a Controllable Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Seven Parties Including China, the United States, Russia and India Join Forces to Build a Controllable Nuclear Fusion Reactor.

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ITER Director General Takes You to Visit the Project Site of the ITER Reactor

ITER Director General takes you to visit the project site of the International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor

Nuclear Fusion

Chevron Announces Investment in Nuclear Fusion Start-Up Zap Energy

Oil major Chevron has announced an investment in Zap Energy, a nuclear fusion start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor.