fusion power

Marathon Fusion emerges from stealth with a plan to help fusion power plants extract tritium, a necessary fuel.

Strong magnets are essential for the type of fusion power being pursued by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and a number of other startups.

Fusion power may still be a few years away, but one startup is laying the groundwork for what it hopes will become a bustling sector of the economy.

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology.

Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants.

The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power.

Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion,…

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If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power. That is, if the sector’s startups are able to…

We still don’t know what the scientists did to better their numbers, but the bump in energy-out suggests that the new results are not a fluke.

Fusion power is expensive and risky, but the potential rewards are enormous. Here’s why 6 investors believe it could be the future of energy.

In the last few years, the state has become a hotbed of fusion startups. But it faces myriad challenges that could knock it from its pedestal.

Decarbonizing industrial heat isn’t easy, but a startup thinks it can harness the power of the sun to make it happen.

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Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had secured $2.2 billion of funding to help it…

A range of new fusion power companies are racing to build the supply chain for what could become a $40 trillion industry.

Commercial fusion is still probably decades away, but promising results show how we might get there.

For decades, fusion power has been just around the corner. Is this the moment we’ve all been waiting for?

Investors are betting large amounts of money on fusion. Here’s why they’re so confident the technology has banished the ghosts of its past.

Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-free energy — a $160 million Series C round, and a successful test…

With startups getting into nuclear technology, it’s no surprise to see more fundraising happening. Now, Kyoto Fusioneering, a fusion energy startup based out of Japan but increasingly expanding abroad, has…

Fusion power plants will eventually replace most conventional power plants and related large-scale energy infrastructure that are still so dominant today. There will be no need for coal or gas.

Now is the time to go all-in on decarbonization. Funding fusion with its breakthrough potential must be part of that effort.

In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke has joined the company’s cap table.…

Commonwealth Fusion Systems closed on its latest $84 million in new funding two weeks ago. The U.S. was still very much in the lockdown phase and getting a deal done,…