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A US nuclear fusion startup claims a new study confirms its technology produces stable thermal plasmas—an essential step ...

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A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Startup Helion receives $ 425 million to develop nuclear merger reactor and promises to provide electricity to Microsoft by ...

A Georgetown University physics professor won $600,000 to develop new magnetic technology for computer storage and processing, the department announced Jan. 21. Gen Yin received the award, a five-year ...

Washington-based fusion energy company Helion just raised US$425 million in fresh funding for its bid to be the first to ...

These papers detail the practical advantages of the planar coil stellarator as well as the methods used to design the planar (i.e. flat) magnetic coils, allowing for a commercial maintenance scheme.

Helion secures funding to accelerate the development of its commercial-scale fusion power plant, aiming to deliver ...