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Commercial Fusion

1.  Funding for Fusion Companies

2.  Companies by Location

3.  Investors in Fusion

4.  Target Markets for Global Fusion Companies

5.  Average Employees by Role & Gender

6.  Technical Approaches Taken for Fusion

7.  When will Fusion 1st Power the Grid

8.  When Will Fusion 1st Power Space Propulsion

9.  Fusion Companies Founded in the Last 30 years

10. Number of Fusion Companies in Existence by Year

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Bob Mumgaard CEO, Provides the CFS Commercial Fusion Path & Timeframe to the NRC During His Presentation on Fusion Energy Regulation

Commercial Fusion

The new CFS "SPARC" net fusion energy & (HTS) superconducting magnet facility, provided his schedule for reaching the critical point of FUSION GAIN

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Fusion Development

Despite Conflict, Russia Sends France
Giant Magnet for Nuclear Fusion Project

Russia dispatched one of six giant magnets needed for the ITER nuclear fusion programme in France, one of the last international scientific projects Moscow participates in despite the Ukraine conflict.

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Commercial Fusion

Announces Plans for Fusion Pilot Plant

Innovative concept leverages decades of expertise in

fusion research and development 

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Climate Change

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Governments worldwide are targeting massive decreases in carbon emissions by 2050.

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POWER SHIFT

Renewable energy is growing faster than ever worldwide but capacity will still be insufficient to achieve global CO2 goals by 2050

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Custom Feed Throughs & Penetrations

Complete Materials & Engineering Design Assistance

High Vacuum - High Voltage - High Temperature   HIGH QUALITY

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Ceramic Metallization - Brazed Assemblies - Vacuum Feedthroughs - High Temp Circuit Boards

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Commercial Fusion

General Fusion Forges Ahead on its Unique Magnetized Target Fusion Technology with the Fabrication of an At-Scale Fusion Vessel Trial Ring

Construction of General Fusion’s demonstration machine, which is being built at the UK Atomic Energy Agency’s Culham Campus, advanced significantly with the fabrication of an at-scale fusion vessel trial ring by Sheffield Forgemasters.

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Fusion Development

UKAEA Announces:West Burton Selected asHome of STEP Fusion Plant.

Government-backed programme aims to prove low carbon electricity from fusion

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Fusion Development

South Korea’s Fusion Reactor Sustained Temperatures 7 Times Hotter Than the Sun

The 14-year-old tokamak experiment is a building block for ITER, which will one day be the largest fusion reactor in the world.

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CAREERS IN FUSION ENERGY INDUSTRY

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Tracking Fusion

Commercial Fusion:

Targeting the Early 2030s for providing commercial fusion energy

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Vancouver, BC Canada

Technology: Magnetized Target Fusion 

GENERAL FUSION TO BUILD ITS FUSION DEMONSTRATION PLANT IN THE UK, AT THE UKAEA CULHAM CAMPUS

New partnership between General Fusion and UKAEA is a landmark collaboration in the development of fusion, a technology for the world’s low-carbon future.

(Read Press Rease Here)

GENERAL FUSION FORGES AHEAD ON ITS UNIQUE MAGNETIZED TARGET FUSION TECHNOLOGY WITH THE FABRICATION OF AN AT-SCALE 

Construction of General Fusion’s demonstration machine, which is being built at the UK Atomic Energy Agency’s Culham Campus, advanced significantly with the fabrication of an at-scale fusion vessel trial ring by Sheffield Forgemasters.

(Brief Read Here)

GENERAL FUSION, BRUCE POWER & THE CANADIAN NUCLEAR INNOVATION 

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have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on accelerating delivery of clean fusion power in Canada.

(Brief Read Here)

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Cambridge, MA USA

Technology: Magnetic Confinement Fusion 

BOB MUMGAARD, CEO AT CFS REPORTS ON ARC FACILITY STATUS AND THE REGULATORY EXPERIENCE TO THE NRC

"Fusion aligns well with Part 30 regulation because in an off-normal scenario, the reaction stops instantaneously, and the hazard doesn’t grow"  

(View the Complete Presentation Here

NRC Fusion Energy Regulatory Meeting Including Agenda, All Presentations & Achieved Webcast 

CFS & MIT's Plasma Science & Fusion Center prove that fusion power scaled High Temperature, Superconducting Magnets (HTS) can provide the 20-Tesla magnetic power to support commercial fusion.  

(Press Release Here)

CFS Led by Tiger Global Management achieved $1.8 Billion in Series-B funding to commercialize fusion energy. 

(Press Release Here)

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San Diego, CA USA

Technology: Magnetic Confinement Fusion 

General Atomics Announces Plan for fusion pilot plant (FPP) to deliver clean, safe, and economically viable fusion energy.  

(Press Release Here)

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Foothill Ranch, CA USA

Technology: Linear (FRC) Field Reverse      Configuration using Boron-11 Fuel 

TEA teams-up with Google A.I. applying software that can improve on its own, TAE Technologies has cut down tasks that once took two months to just a few hours.  

(Full BBC Article Here)

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Everett, WA USA

Technology: Plasma Accelerator Linear (FRC) Field Reverse Configuration using He-3 Fuel 

Helion Energy Breaks Ground on Fusion Facility 

Helion’s fusion power plant will provide flexible, scalable, baseload power that is affordable, providing the world a new path to full decarbonization of electricity generation. 

(Full Businesswire Article Here)

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Milton Park, Oxfordshire UK

Technology: Spherical Tokamak Magnetic Confinement Fusion

Tokamak Energy moves closer to commercial fusion: 100M degree plasma a world record for a spherical tokamak 

Tokamak Energy has demonstrated a world-first with its privately-funded ST40 spherical tokamak, achieving a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, the threshold required for commercial fusion energy.

This is by far the highest temperature ever achieved in a spherical tokamak and by any privately funded tokamak  (Brief Read Here)

Tracking Fusion

Fusion Research:

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St. Paul Les Durance, France

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JET Facility, Culham  UK

Technology: Magnetic Confinement Fusion

JET - Joint Experimental Tokamak Sets Record for sustained fusion energy Eurofusion is the EU consortium the runs the JET experiment (at the UKAEA Culham Fusion Centre that is the prototype guiding the development of the ITER project.   

(Details at EUROfusion Here)

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Abingdon, Oxfordshire  UK

Technology: Spherical Tokamak Magnetic Confinement Fusion

STEP - Spherical Tokamak for energy production  (5) Five locations on the "shortlist" are in the final stages of evaluation as the STEP programme gets ready to choose the site for their first fusion energy power plant (Details at UK.gov Here) 

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LLNL, Livermore, CA  USA

Technology: Laser Inertial Confinement

A Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel The National Ignition Facility put researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules

(Details at LLNL - NIF Here)

Abingdon, Oxfordshire  UK

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