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Richmond, British Columbia
British Columbia is the centre of a thriving world-class innovation ecosystem.
Support from the Canadian government has been instrumental in General Fusion’s success and growing presence. Our newly expanded headquarters, near Vancouver International Airport, will enable the earliest commercialization of our fusion technology. As General Fusion prepares to power homes, businesses, and industry with clean energy, our Richmond facility will provide a space to design and build LM26 to support our fusion demonstration program and our plan to commercialize fusion energy by the early to mid-2030s.
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Over the next two to three years, General Fusion will work closely with the UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA) to validate the data gathered from LM26 and incorporate it into the design of the company’s planned commercial scale demonstration in the UK.
General Fusion is collaborating with national labs across the United States, such as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), the University of Illinois, and more.
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ABSTRACT General Fusion is developing Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) as a practical means of producing deuterium-tritium fusion power. Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) is an MTF demonstration that integrates General Fusion’s operational Plasma Injector 3 (PI3) with a solid lithium cylindrical
On April 29th, we achieved a transformative milestone at our Vancouver, B.C., headquarters in Canada—we successfully compressed a large-scale magnetized plasma with lithium using our world-first LM26 fusion demonstration machine. The full, integrated system and diagnostics operated safely and as
General Fusion has been at the forefront of fusion technology development for more than 20 years. Today, we stand as a world leader on the cusp of our most exciting technical milestone yet—and one of the most challenging financial moments
Our LM26 machine is now forming magnetized plasmas with the lifetimes we need to begin our large-scale plasma compression program to achieve breakthrough fusion and heating results! LM26 will demonstrate our practical Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) path to power—an approach
Poster This poster was presented at the 6th European Conference on Plasma Diagnostics in Prague on April 7, 2025. Download Poster as PDF Henry Gould, Abetharan Antony, Filiberto Braglia, Calum MacDonald, Xiande Feng, Philippe Laberge, Robert Sosiak, Akbar Rohollahi, Ching
“Its technology — called Magnetized Target Fusion — is the most promising route to commercialize fusion.” Former Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith spoke with Bloomberg’s Thomas Seal about joining General Fusion as a strategic advisor. Read the exclusive here
With General Fusion’s LM26, B.C. and Canada are leading in the global race to commercialize zero-carbon fusion energy. As Global News’ Aaron McArthur reports, we are “on the cusp of creating something that could change the world!” Aaron highlights our
Climate and environment reporter Stefan Labbé visited our labs to see LM26 and our team in action. He joined us in the control room during a plasma shot and wrote about it for BIV News. Read the article here
Our large-scale demonstration LM26 is now forming plasmas regularly! Senior climate reporter Tim De Chant from TechCrunch takes a look at our world-first machine and the first plasma milestone. Read the article here
RICHMOND, British Columbia (April 2, 2025): 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
Abstract The Plasma Injector 3 (PI3) experiment at General Fusion has been constructed to demonstrate the ability to form plasma targets suitable for compression in a Magnetized Target Fusion machine. To achieve compressive heating to fusion conditions, the target plasmas
Abstract Deflectometry is a key component in the precise measurement of specular (mirrored) surfaces; however, traditional methods often lack an end-to-end approach that performs 3D reconstruction in a single shot with high accuracy and generalizes across different free-form surfaces. This
Abstract A sequence of magnetized target fusion devices built by General Fusion has compressed magnetically confined deuterium plasmas inside imploding aluminum liners. Here we describe the best-performing compression experiment, PCS-16, which was the fifth of the most recent experiments that
RICHMOND, British Columbia (March 27, 2025): 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
RICHMOND, British Columbia (March 11, 2025): 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
Our Chief Strategy Officer Megan Wilson shared the secret to our success with Science Magazine journalist Daniel Clery. We “incrementally improve very quickly, to iterate on our plan, to learn, and to move on to get results.” In the article, Megan,
“We need clean, baseload power that is free of both carbon dioxide and methane emissions, that’s reliable and affordable.” Our Chief Strategy Officer Megan Wilson spoke with CNN technology reporter Clare Duffy about the transformative potential of fusion energy as
Our plasma injector is ready. We’ve integrated the compression system. The fusion vessel is installed. After a busy few months and an incredible effort by our team, the Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) assembly is complete! “This world-first machine embodies over
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 (November 22, 2024): General Fusion has
Economist science & technology editor Geoffrey Carr looks at what’s to come in the race to commercialize clean fusion energy – a potentially landmark year in the real-world demonstration of fusion technologies. The article highlights our LM26 fusion machine, which
“General Fusion is aiming to squish plasma together not with fancy magnets or lasers or other exotic parts, but with pistons a bit like the ones in a car engine. The company is hoping to demonstrate the feasibility of 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 (November 13, 2024): For the second time this year, the Natural Sciences and Engineering
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 (November 5, 2024): Today, General Fusion announced that FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC), a regulated utility providing
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