In a first-of-its-kind agreement, Google will purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion power plant. But the technology remains years from commercial scale.

Toyoda Gosei has invested in Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. which aims to achieve practical nuclear fusion power generation.

The plant Google invested in isn’t going to be built until the early 203. When it starts generating usable fusion energy is ...

The current AI race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. Read more ...

Fusion could help shift U.S. production away from fossil fuels to more abundant and energy-dense hydrogen- and lithium-based fuels. Even as renewable energy generation reached record highs in 2023 ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carl Weggel—a 50-year persistent advocate of the compact, ultra-high-field tokamak—is on a mission to commercialize fusion energy through ...

If Altman is right, it would herald a new era. Nuclear fusion holds the promise of clean, cheap, abundant, reliable energy. With no carbon emissions and no obvious physical limitations on their ...

By contrast, the operation of Helion’s 60-foot-long fusion generator involves injecting plasma balls at each end, smashing them together in a 100 million degree reaction controlled by intense ...

EVERETT — The state Department of Health has granted Helion, an Everett-based company, a license that will enable it to use radioactive byproduct materials to operate its fusion machine.

A startup called Helion thinks it can get a functioning nuclear fusion working within five years—a lofty goal, ... Microsoft aims to buy electricity generated by Helion's fusion generator in 2028.