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Russian research on tritium cycle supports fusion development
Russia’s AA Bochvar Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM – part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) has developed a basic version of the technological tritium cycle for modernisation...
Euratom Programme receives €300 million for fusion research
The European Commission (EC) on 2 July adopted the Euratom Work Programme 2021-2022, implementing the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025. The Work Programme outlines...
Shine to receive financing from Koch
US-based Shine Medical Technologies announced on 28 June that it had closed a $150-million Series C-5 financing. Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) led the round, which also...
Helion Energy achieves 100 million degrees Celsius fusion fuel temperature
US-based Helion Energy said on 22 June that it had become the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in its 6th fusion generator prototype,...
ITER reports on progress
At its 28th Meeting on 16-17 June, the ITER Council convened via remote video conference to assess the latest progress reports and performance metrics of the ITER Project....
First shot fired by First Light Fusion Big Gun
UK Science Minister and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Research & Innovation Amanda Solloway on 17 June visited First Light Fusion in Oxford and officially fired...
Canada’s General Fusion to build demonstration plant in the UK
General Fusion has agreed to build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire.
US DOE announces funding for stellarator research
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 8 June announced $6.4 million in funding for US scientists to carry out seven research projects at two major fusion energy facilities located...
General Atomics prepares to ship first module of ITER’s Central Solenoid
After a decade of design and fabrication, US-based General Atomics said on 15 June that it is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid to the International...
Toshiba manufactures toroidal field coils for ITER
Japan’s Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions (Toshiba ESS) announced on 8 June that it had manufactured the first of four toroidal field coils for the International...
ITER contracts Spain’s ENSA for welding work
The ITER Organisation said on 31 May that it had concluded a contract with the Spanish company ENSA (Equipos Nucleares SA) for the welding of the ITER vacuum vessel. Since 2012, ENSA...
Another world record for China’s EAST fusion reactor
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor on 28 May achieved another world record by maintaining a plasma temperature at 120 million decrees Celsius...
Russian government invests in Tokamak upgrade
The Russian government said on 26 May that RUB4.9 billion ($66,6m) will be allocated for the technical retrofitting of the T-15MD tokamak thermonuclear installation located at...
MHI Completes Four TF Coils for ITER
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) said on 24 May it had completed manufacture of four toroidal field (TF) coils (of a total of five, including one spare) ordered by the...
UKAEA research breakthrough a game-changer for fusion
Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) “have successfully tested a world-first concept that could clear one of the major hurdles in developing fusion energy”, UKAEA said...
Russia launches T-15MD tokamak at the Kurchatov Institute
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on 18 May took part in the launch ceremony of the T-15MD tokamak installation at the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute. The...
First Light Fusion installs hyper-velocity gas gun
UK-based First Light Fusion, which is researching energy generation via inertial fusion, said on 13 May that it had completed construction of a 22-metre-long two-stage gas gun as part...
IAEA Fusion Energy Conference attracts record participation
The 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC), which is being held on-line from 10-15 May, has attracted a record 3,400 attendees, including both full participants and observers....
First poloidal field coil moved to Iter’s Tokamak pit
The first of the six Poloidal Field (PF) coils has been transported to the Tokamak pit at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) under construction in France,...
