DOE Announces New Decadal Fusion Energy Strategy
Jun 6, 2024 · The newly released DOE Fusion Energy Strategy 2024 is organized around three pillars: closing the science and technology (S&T) gaps to a commercially relevant fusion pilot plant; preparing the path to sustainable, equitable commercial fusion deployment; and building and leveraging external partnerships.
International Partnerships in a New Era of Fusion Energy
Dec 2, 2023 · International collaborations foster innovation and advance fusion science and supporting technologies. These technologies accelerate efforts toward fusion demonstration and commercialization.
New fusion energy strategies and partnerships announced at …
Jun 10, 2024 · The DOE announced $180 million for the collaboratives over four years, with annual awards of between $2 million and $5 million for each collaborative; the number of awards will depend on applications received. Preapplications are due on July 9.
Nuclear-Fusion Reaction Beats Breakeven - Physics
Feb 5, 2024 · Nuclear-Fusion Reaction Beats Breakeven. Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed. Courtesy of O. A. Hurricane/LLNL. Figure 1: Part of the inertial-confinement-fusion system at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Stay Connected - The White House
Jun 6, 2024 · DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences is announcing a $180 million Funding Opportunity Announcement for new Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives. The FIRE Collaboratives...
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition ... - Nature
Dec 15, 2023 · In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by producing a fusion...
MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion ... - MIT News
May 10, 2022 · Commonwealth Fusion Systems, MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and others are working to build SPARC, a prototype device that aims to extract net energy from plasma and generate fusion power, reports Philip Ball for Scientific American.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
Jan 12, 2022 · With the magnet technology now successfully demonstrated, the MIT-CFS collaboration is on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025.
PSFC is designated an IAEA Collaborating Center, the first in fusion
Oct 27, 2023 · On September 22nd, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center was designated a Collaborating Center by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global organization dedicated to accelerating nuclear energy’s contributions to peace, health, and prosperity.
IAEA Opens Fusion Energy Discussion at COP28 as Momentum …
Dec 7, 2023 · Starting from 2024, the WFEG will bring together public and private sectors, industry, academia and civil society to establish a collaborative framework with a view to accelerate research, development, demonstration and deployment of safe and sustainable fusion energy to the market.