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$2.7 billion project in Jiangxi province has entered ‘first phase’, says Hong Kong report
- Source: Nucnet
Company planning prototype as next step toward commercial power plant
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 02 October 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/germany-based-marvel-lands-eur62-million-in-bid-to-prove-laser-technology-10-2-2024
British inertial fusion energy developer First Light Fusion has hosted a delegation from the Japanese government, headed by State Minister Soichiro Imaeda from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The visit comes as the UK and Japan seek closer collaboration on commercial fusion energy research.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Japan-UK-enhance-cooperation-on-fusion
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a strategy aimed at accelerating the viability of commercial fusion energy in partnership with the private sector. The department also announced USD180 million to support fusion research at an event in Washington, DC.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 08 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USA-sets-roadmap-for-fusion-commercialisation
UK-based First Light Fusion (FLF) says it made progress in solving a key engineering challenges in its ongoing work to design a pilot power plant capable of producing commercial energy from fusion. FLF is pursuing a form of inertial confinement fusion called projectile fusion, which creates the extreme temperatures and pressures required to achieve ‘fusion’ by compressing a target containing fusion fuel using a projectile travelling at a tremendous speed. FLF says this does not involve using complex, energy-intensive, expensive lasers, or magnets and represents a simpler, cheaper, more energy-efficient approach to achieving fusion with lower physics risk.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-light-fusion-solves-engineering-challenge-for-pilot-fusion-plant-design-11658929
US-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted Fluor to design “the world's first commercial laser fusion power plant. This is based on breakthroughs in fusion energy gain at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF). Longview is the only fusion energy company using this approach.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslongview-fusion-selects-fluor-to-design-laser-fusion-plant-11594517
California-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted US engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation to design the world's first commercial laser fusion power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fluor-to-design-laser-fusion-power-plant
Reaction replicated same natural processes found within the Sun
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-lab-enters-new-era-achieving-ignition-over-and-over-12-2-2023
Opening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 29th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023) in London, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi began by wishing a happy 40th anniversary to the Joint European Torus (JET) which operates at Culham near Oxford. Jet was “the first tritium experiment in Europe, breaker of scientific records, producer of generations of accomplished scientists and engineers, and a true magnet for international collaboration,” he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-29th-fusion-energy-conference-attracts-2000-participants-11224380
Tractebel and First Light Fusion have signed a framework agreement to provide specialist engineering expertise for the development of First Light’s Machine 4 (M4) in Oxford, UK.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 11 August 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstractebel-working-with-first-light-on-fusion-11066881