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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
RICHMOND, British Columbia, April 30, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion is advancing the design of its Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) commercial power plant with proprietary simulation code now validated in a peer-reviewed scientific paper. General Fusion is unique in its ability to iterate nimbly. Since 2002, the company has built and tested dozens of [...]
RICHMOND, British Columbia, April 04, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion has launched a new project in collaboration with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, to advance the design of its commercial fusion power plant. Delivered through CNL’s Canadian Nuclear Research Initiative (CNRI) program, the project will examine and propose [...]