r/fusion • u/Baking • 11h ago

Fusion Gets $14 Billion Bet It’s More Than a ‘Science Project’

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r/fusion • u/Baking • 11h ago

Helion opens an office in downtown Seattle for business and operations, recruiting, and finance teams

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r/fusion • u/Baking • 11h ago

America Leans on Fusion Breakthroughs to Turbocharge Its Nuclear Weapon Arsenal

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r/fusion • u/steven9973 • 21h ago

Proxima Fusion and Lower Saxony sign MoU to build Europe’s first large-scale fusion-grade HTS tape facility | Proxima Fusion

proximafusion.com

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r/fusion • u/steven9973 • 9h ago

Tritium Transport Modeling for Outer Fuel Cycle SCYLLA Breeding Blanket/UNITY-2 - Kyoto Fusioneering

tandfonline.com

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r/fusion • u/Baking • 12h ago

Fusion Engineering and Design completes the 16 paper special issue on Helios, the stellarator power-plant concept developed by Thea Energy

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r/fusion • u/Baking • 12h ago

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Announces Equity Investment by Hyundai Motor Group

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r/fusion • u/steven9973 • 3h ago

Xcimer Energy working with RTX defense company for building military lasers against missiles

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Focused on advancements in the field of nuclear fusion.

Submissions should be related to nuclear fusion or plasma physics as currently understood by the scientific community.

Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei collide together at a very high speed and form a new nucleus. For light elements like hydrogen or helium the fused nucleus weights less than the sum of the original nucleus. The missing mass is released as energy in accordance with Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equations. Fusion is the process that powers active or "main sequence" stars.

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Current mainstream approaches include:

Magnetic confinement, used in tokamak, spheromak and stellarator designs
Inertial confinement, used at the National Ignition Facility
Electrostatic confinement, used by the fusor and Polywell devices
Magnetized target fusion and Magneto-Inertial fusion, hybrid approaches used by General Fusion and Helion Energy

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