‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A tokamak in New Jersey set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer, and at higher energies and densities than carbon tokamaks.Read more…
A fusion reactor in San Diego surpasses a limit on plasma density.
Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built a twisting fusion reactor known as a stellarator that uses permanent magnets, showcasing a potentially cost-effective way of building the powerful machines. Their experimen…
The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy has installed a new diverter in the KSTAR tokamak, allowing the artificial sun to sustain high-ion temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius for longer.Read more…
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, which has long been the domain of science fiction. The s…
The biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated north of Tokyo today, as scientists continue to plug away at making nuclear fusion a viable source of the world’s energy.Read more…
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