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Proxima Fusion on track to build demonstration stellarator by 2031
- Source: Nucnet
Ontario Power Generation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Stellarex Inc to explore the development and deployment of fusion energy in Ontario which will see them work together to identify potential future siting and deployment of a stellarator fusion energy device in the province.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 11 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/OPG-investigates-fusion-as-future-option-for-Ontar
Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion has raised €20m ($21.7m) in seed funding to accelerate its plans to build the first generation of fusion power plants based on quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators with high-temperature superconductors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsproxima-raises-more-funding-for-its-fusion-programme-11677586
Company is spin-out from Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/germany-s-proxima-raises-eur20-million-for-qi-stellerator-reactor-4-4-2024
The UK’s Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham near Oxford, which closed at the end of December 2023 after 40 years of operation, “has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, whilst simultaneously setting a world-record in energy output”, according to the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjets-final-experiments-set-new-fusion-energy-record-11512349
The Joint European Torus (JET) produced the largest amount of energy achieved in a fusion experiment during its final round of deuterium-tritium experiments, breaking its own record set in 2021.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-world-record-set-in-JET-s-final-fusion-experim
Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion says it has completed its Pre-Seed fundraising of €7m ($7.48m) to support fusion power plant development based on the stellarator concept. The fundraising is co-led by Plural and UVC Partners, and joined by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Wilbe Group.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 02 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsproxima-fusion-raises-funds-for-fusion-plant-development-10905392
General Atomics (GA) of the USA and Tokamak Energy of the UK have agreed to collaborate in the area of high temperature superconducting (HTS) technology for fusion energy and other industry applications. Meanwhile, Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics will work with Proxima Fusion to further develop the stellarator concept.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Collaborations-announced-for-fusion-projects
A Chinese tokamak device has set a new world record for a steady-state high-constraint mode plasma operation and German researchers have discovered a way to build smaller and cheaper fusion reactors. Meanwhile a US Government Accountability Office report on achieving commercial fusion cautions that several challenges must still be overcome.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 14 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-and-German-milestones-in-fusion-research
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator fusion device at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has achieved some significant breakthroughs. In 2023, an energy turnover of 1 gigajoule was targeted, but researchers have now achieved 1.3 gigajoules. Moreover, a new record for discharge time was achieved, with the hot plasma maintained for eight minutes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssuccessful-fusion-experiments-at-germanys-wendelstein-7-x-10636975