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General Fusion Partners with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to Advance Commercial Power Plant Design

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 [...]

NSERC Awards Funding to TRIUMF and General Fusion to Develop State-of-the-Art Diagnostic System for LM26 Fusion Machine

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 27, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre, and General Fusion, an international leader in the development of commercial fusion energy, have received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance grant to advance technology critical to measuring extreme temperatures inside a fusion machine. Grant funding [...]

Former EUROfusion CEO, Tony Donné, to Chair General Fusion’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Feb. 28, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, General Fusion announced the appointment of Tony Donné as Chair of its Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC). Tony is one of the world’s foremost fusion experts, with nearly 40 years of scientific research and technology development in the field. Tony most recently served as [...]

General Fusion Confirms Liquid Wall Compression Technology for Commercial Magnetized Target Fusion in New Scientific Publication

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Jan. 11, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) — General Fusion has published new, peer-reviewed scientific results that validate the company has achieved the smooth, rapid, and symmetric compression of a liquid cavity that is key to the design of a commercial Magnetized Target Fusion power plant. The results, published in one of the foremost [...]

General Fusion and University of Lisbon Collaborate on State-of-the-Art Diagnostic for LM26 Plasma Injector

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Dec. 12, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – General Fusion and the University of Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) have announced a collaboration agreement, through the University’s Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN) research unit, to develop a key diagnostic for the company’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology. The custom diagnostic, being built in both [...]

Canadian Government Awards New Funding to General Fusion

RICHMOND, Canada, Dec. 04 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, General Fusion announced that Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) has awarded CA$5 million to support research and development to advance the company’s Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration at its Richmond headquarters. Called LM26, this ground-breaking machine will progress major technical milestones required to commercialize zero-carbon fusion power [...]

Veteran Energy Executive, Mark Little, Joins General Fusion’s Board of Directors

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Oct. 31, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, General Fusion announced the appointment of Mark Little to its Board of Directors. Mark is an esteemed senior executive in the energy industry with over 35 years of experience leading large, complex organizations as they advance multi-billion-dollar energy projects from conceptual design, development, and project [...]

General Fusion and TRIUMF Sign MOU to Develop Key Technologies for New LM26 Fusion Machine

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Oct. 25, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) — TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre, and General Fusion, an international leader in the development of commercial fusion energy, announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that provides a framework for scientific and technical collaboration. Under the terms of the agreement, the two globally [...]

General Fusion and Kyoto Fusioneering Sign MOU to Accelerate Commercialization of Magnetized Target Fusion

RICHMOND, British Columbia and TOKYO, Oct. 11, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, General Fusion and Kyoto Fusioneering announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate the commercialization of General Fusion’s proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) technology, aiming for grid integration in the early to mid-2030s. The companies will collaborate to advance critical systems for MTF [...]

Former CEO of UKAEA, Norman Harrison, Joins General Fusion’s Board of Directors

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, General Fusion announced the appointment of Norman Harrison to its Board of Directors. Norman is a world-class executive in the energy sector, with 40 years of unique experience providing leadership to both the fusion energy and nuclear fission communities. His experience includes serving as the CEO [...]