The Nuclear Company raises $46M to develop massive reactor sites
The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to…
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Some fusion companies might be hitting a rough patch, but Realta Fusion is bucking the trend with a new fundraising round it says will allow it to finalize the design…
A look at Energy Department’s Argonne National Lab’s PRO-AID, an AI-based tool that can assist with nuclear reactor design and help operators run nuclear plants (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
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Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone
Commonwealth Fusion Systems marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its Sparc demonstration reactor. The new part is a 24-foot wide, 75-ton stainless…
General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor
General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of…
German startup wins accolade for its fusion reactor design
Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as a step-change in…
Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft
Few fusion startups have been as closely watched as Helion. The 12-year-old company is backed by Sam Altman, rumored to be in talks with OpenAI, and has a deal to…
Fusion startup Tokamak Energy attracts $125M for its egg-like reactor design
As the world races to add more power plants to satiate AI’s thirst for electricity, investors have been plowing money into nuclear fusion, the pie-in-the-sky technology that appears to be…