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| Jun 26, 2026 | Fusion Energy Hits a Materials Wall: DOE Roadmap Targets Engineering Gaps With 2030s Deadline | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jun 26 2026, 6:02 AM EDT
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| Oct 20, 2025 | The race to build a star on Earth | Over the past five years, private sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10-billion, from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations and sovereign governments.
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| Apr 1, 2025 | The Future of Innovation: Insights from Europe’s Leading Entrepreneurs | In the heart of Europe, innovation is blooming. Two remarkable stories illustrate this vibrant landscape: Michael Cassau’s ambitious venture with SKROL and Marvel Fusion’s groundbreaking strides in nuclear fusion. Both narratives reflect a ... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Marvel Fusion bags additional €50 million for nuclear fusion and prototype facility | Marvel Fusion, a Munich fusion energy company, announced the extension of its Series B funding round by €50 million, bringing the total round to €113 million and placing Marvel Fusion as the “best-funded European fusion company“.
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| Oct 1, 2024 | Launch of the First Nordic Fusion Forum | Launch of the First Nordic Fusion Forum
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The Nordic Fusion Forum, led by Novatron Fusion Group in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, will debut on October 1. This event at KT... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Faraday Factory announces it has delivered over 5,000 km of high-temperature superconductor tape to fusion industry | Faraday Factory, the world's largest manufacturer of high-temperature superconductors, announces achievement of 5,000 km cumulative deliveries to disruptive fusion projects worldwide
TOKYO, Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Faraday Factory Jap... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Xcimer Energy: A Bright Spark in the Fusion Industry | Xcimer Energy, a Denver-based inertial fusion company, recently secured $100 million in Series A funding. Led by Hedosophia, this funding round also saw participation from notable investors like Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Cap... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Fusion startup Xcimer raises $100M to build huge laser | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has raised a $100 million Series A round to build a prototype of its laser-driven fusion system.
Why it matters: There's growing momentum around nuclear fusion as the tech... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Proxima Fusion: A Stellar Rise in the Nuclear Fusion Race | In the competitive world of nuclear fusion startups, Proxima Fusion has emerged as a rising star, securing a hefty $21 million in funding to propel its innovative 'stellarator' approach to fusion energy. While the fusion industry has seen i... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion | Venture capitalists’ appetite for fusion startups has been up and down in the last few years. For instance, the Fusion Industry Association found that while nuclear fusion companies had attracted over $6 billion in investment in 2023, $1.4 ... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Inside Zap Energy, the Bill Gates-backed company that wants to bring fusion power to the electrical grid | Science Inside Zap Energy, the Bill Gates-backed company that wants to bring fusion power to the electrical grid
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| Dec 22, 2023 | US scientists have launched a new nuclear era they call the 'age of ignition' but it's still a distant dream from the age of nuclear power | Science US scientists have launched a new nuclear era they call the 'age of ignition' but it's still a distant dream from the age of nuclear power
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| Oct 29, 2023 | Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market | Science Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market
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| Aug 24, 2023 | 7 founders and CEOs discuss fusion power’s most pressing challenges | The hype around fusion power is real. Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved net-positive controlled nuclear fusion in December 2022, a milestone that’s been decades in the making. Then, earlier this month, they did it again... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Scientists repeat breakthrough fusion experiment, netting more power than before | It wasn’t a fluke: Researchers at a Department of Energy (DOE) lab have repeated their breakthrough fusion power experiment. Only this time, the results are even better.
On July 30, lasers once again converged on a tiny gold cylinder contai... |
| May 17, 2023 | Companies to Spend $7 Billion on First Nuclear Fusion Plants: Report | John Lopez, Tech Times 17 May 2023, 09:05 am
A revolutionary new source of energy is on the horizon, and the race is on to master it.
Nuclear fusion, the process where the nuclei of two light atoms slam to form a heavier nucleus and then ma... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | Harnessing nuclear fusion is now a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’ | NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions. Image: Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CC BY-NC-SA
Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that cou... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Net Zero Needs Fusion. What Should Investors Be Asking The Frontrunners? | The urgency for fusion energy cannot be overstated. On October 27, the UN warned that there is “no credible pathway to 1.5° C in place,” and current policies point to a catastrophic 2.8° C of warming by 2100. Fusion may be the only zero-car... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | ‘Every Little Bit Matters’ Isn’t Enough For Net Zero | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – FEBRUARY 4: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and British ... [+] broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough attend the launch of the UK-hosted COP26 UN Climate Summit, which will take place this autum... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030 | In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.
The 20-year-old fusion ene... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | U.K. And U.S. Race For Leadership On Fusion Power? | In a new report, the U.S. fusion research community has recommended the U.S. government move aggressively to deploy commercial fusion power as a key technology in the fight against climate change. The U.K. recently made a statement about it... |
| May 26, 2020 | With $84 million in new cash, Commonwealth Fusion is on track for a demonstration fusion reactor by 2025 | 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, especially a multimillion dollar investment in a new technology aiming to... |
| Nuclear fusion will not be regulated the same way as nuclear fission — a big win for the fusion industry | The nation’s top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission.
The decision is being cheered by the fusion ... |
| Commonwealth Fusion has raised $2 billion to make energy like the sun and stars — here’s a look inside | |
| Microsoft agrees to buy electricity generated from Sam Altman-backed fusion company Helion in 2028 | Microsoft said Wednesday it has signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear fusion startup Helion to buy electricity from it in 2028.
The deal is a vote of confidence for fusion, which has thus far not been commercialized.
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| Reactors to Rockets: Nuclear Power’s Return to Space | With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s next: establishing an enduring presence on the moon. Through a series of low-Earth orbit and lunar surface ... |
| Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) said on Wednesday that they completed the successful test of a key technology — a very powerful magnet — on Sunday at 6 a.... |
| Why Silicon Valley is so hot on nuclear energy and what it means for the industry | From 2015 to 2021, the pace at which venture capitalists put money into private nuclear companies eclipsed the entire VC space and even the fast-growing climate tech space.
That new money coming from new places is leading to smaller and mor... |
| Industry veterans take a shot at making fusion commercial with insanely powerful lasers | As nations around the world race to decarbonize as climate change intensifies, the promise of virtually unlimited clean energy has given new life and funding to nuclear fusion.
Focused Energy is a fusion startup stacked with industry vetera... |
| A national lab just achieved a ‘Wright Brothers moment’ in nuclear fusion | The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a key achievement in fusion research on Tuesday.
A laser light was focused onto a target the size of a BB which resulted in “a hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than ... |
| Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Scientists generate more power than used to create reaction | On Tuesday, the head of the Department of Energy and other federal scientific leaders announced that a fusion reaction they ran at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved net energy, meaning the reaction generated ... |
| Investor Vinod Khosla says focusing on 2030 climate targets is the wrong approach | Vinod Khosla, the founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, says 2040 is the more important goal post in combating climate change than 2030.
Khosla, who cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 an... |
| Look inside this lab where scientists are recreating the energy of the sun to produce nearly unlimited clean energy | Recreating in a lab the nuclear reaction that powers the sun and other stars — which is called nuclear fusion — is a feat as complex as it sounds.
Fusion has the potential to create massive amounts of carbon-free or clean energy. So though ... |
| Fusion power is still decades and billions of dollars away, even after this week’s major scientific breakthrough | Tuesday’s announcement of net power gain from a nuclear fusion reaction is a major scientific breakthrough.
At the same time, it will be more than a decade until fusion is generating power for the electricity grid.
Between now and then, the... |
| U.S. DOE Finalizes Roadmap to Accelerate Commercial Fusion | U.S. efforts to commercialize fusion energy are continuing full speed ahead. On June 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its finalized Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap, which lays out a national strategy to rapidly ... |
| This government lab in Idaho is researching fusion, the 'holy grail' of clean energy, as billions pour into the space | Masashi Shimada, a lead fusion scientist at the government's Idaho National Laboratory, has been working in the industry for more than two decades, and he says the way that scientists talk about fusion has changed markedly in recent years a... |
| This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy | After Brandon Sorbom graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2010, he decided to take the “couple of thousand dollars” he had saved and his credit card (he had 0% interest for a year) and fly to Boston.
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