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Ontario Power Generation Board Chair Wendy Kei Joins General Fusion as Strategic Advisor

Ontario Power Generation Board Chair Wendy Kei Joins General Fusion as Strategic Advisor

Kei bringing over three decades of financial leadership and governance experience VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 05, 2026 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion Inc. (“General Fusion” or the “Company”), a leader in the global race to make commercial fusion energy a reality, announced that Wendy Kei has joined General Fusion as a strategic advisor to support the Company [...]

General Fusion to Become First Publicly Traded Pure-Play Fusion Company Through Business Combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III

General Fusion to Become First Publicly Traded Pure-Play Fusion Company Through Business Combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III

General Fusion is advancing patented and proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion (“MTF”) technology designed to scale for cost-efficient power plants within the next decade. Two decades of R&D and scientific milestones underpin the Company’s MTF approach, positioning it as a leader in the drive toward commercial fusion. Today, it is one of only four private companies [...]

General Fusion closes oversubscribed US$22 million financing; welcomes new Board members

General Fusion closes oversubscribed US$22 million financing; welcomes new Board members

Funding will be used to support General Fusion’s LM26 fusion demonstration program on its path to key milestones with Magnetized Target Fusion  RICHMOND, British Columbia, Aug. 21, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — General Fusion has closed US$22 million (C$30 million) in new financing to support its LM26 fusion demonstration program and advance its mission to transform [...]

General Fusion announces former Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith as new strategic advisor

General Fusion announces former Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith as new strategic advisor

RICHMOND, British Columbia, April 02, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — Bob Smith is joining General Fusion as a strategic advisor. Smith brings more than 35 years of experience developing, scaling, and launching world-changing technologies, including spearheading new products and innovation in the aerospace industry at United Space Alliance, Sandia Labs, and Honeywell before serving as CEO [...]

Peer-reviewed publication confirms General Fusion achieved plasma energy confinement time required for its LM26 large-scale fusion machine

Peer-reviewed publication confirms General Fusion achieved plasma energy confinement time required for its LM26 large-scale fusion machine

RICHMOND, British Columbia, March 27, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – New results published in Nuclear Fusion confirm General Fusion successfully created magnetized plasmas that achieved energy confinement times exceeding 10 milliseconds. The published energy confinement time results were achieved on General Fusion’s PI3 plasma injector—the world’s largest and most powerful plasma injector of its kind. Commissioned in 2017, [...]

General Fusion’s Made-in-Canada Technology Achieves First Plasma in Cutting Edge Fusion Demonstration Machine

General Fusion’s Made-in-Canada Technology Achieves First Plasma in Cutting Edge Fusion Demonstration Machine

RICHMOND, British Columbia, March 11, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration, Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), has successfully formed a magnetized plasma in the machine’s target chamber—a significant achievement in the operation of this world-first machine. LM26 is now forming plasmas daily as General Fusion’s team optimizes performance in preparation for its next [...]

General Fusion confirms significant fusion neutron yield and plasma stability during MTF compression experiment series with new peer-reviewed publication

General Fusion confirms significant fusion neutron yield and plasma stability during MTF compression experiment series with new peer-reviewed publication

Scientific results demonstrate the company’s achievements in creating fusion through MTF, providing foundation for its LM26 fusion demonstration, which will begin compressing large-scale plasmas in early 2025 to achieve transformative milestones RICHMOND, British Columbia, Nov. 22, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion has published peer-reviewed scientific results confirming world-first achievements in plasma compression using its [...]

NSERC awards funding for General Fusion LM26 diagnostic system

NSERC awards funding for General Fusion LM26 diagnostic system

General Fusion and Simon Fraser University partner to develop technology that will precisely measure the performance of game-changing fusion demonstration machine in Canada RICHMOND, British Columbia, Nov. 13, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – For the second time this year, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance program has awarded funding to support [...]

FortisBC Inc. joins General Fusion’s Market Development Advisory Committee to examine potential for fusion energy deployment

FortisBC Inc. joins General Fusion’s Market Development Advisory Committee to examine potential for fusion energy deployment

B.C. utility will advise General Fusion as it prepares to deploy practical commercial fusion technology to power a lower carbon energy future RICHMOND, British Columbia, Nov. 05, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, General Fusion announced that FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC), a regulated utility providing safe and reliable electricity, has joined its Market Development Advisory Committee (MDAC). [...]

New third-party analyses support General Fusion’s MTF technology path to commercialization

New third-party analyses support General Fusion’s MTF technology path to commercialization

SRNL and UKAEA, labs renowned for neutronics simulation, tritium innovation, and fuel cycle R&D, recently reviewed key parameters of the company’s unique approach to practical fusion energy RICHMOND, British Columbia, Sept. 19, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – New analyses from the U.S. Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) support General Fusion’s [...]