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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.
Culham, Oxfordshire
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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General Fusion is pleased to share that the funding for our LM26 program has reached CA$71 million since its launch in 2023, with a new CA$20 million investment from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization,
Abstract To achieve commercially relevant fusion conditions in a magnetized plasma, rapid and efficient heating must surpass heat loss. In Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) experiments, which heat plasma by compression, a magnetic flux conserver made of metal is essential for
Abstract Magnetized target fusion (MTF) relies on rapidly compressing magnetized plasma within a flux conserver to attain fusion conditions. Maintaining the smoothness and symmetry of the plasma-facing surface during compression is crucial, as any asymmetric deformation or buckling of the
Abstract Lithium is an ideal plasma facing material for fusion plasmas due to its low atomic mass, ability to breed tritium fuel and its gettering characteristics. Liners made of lithium are used as magnetic flux conservers, which can be compressed
The race is on to produce commercial fusion energy, and General Fusion’s proprietary technology was built from the ground up with a power plant in mind. Our two decades of technology development have paved the way—we’re on track to provide
Abstract Boundary plasma and plasma-material interactions are investigated for magnetised target fusion (MTF) applications. The General Fusion magnetised target fusion technology uses coaxial helicity injection (CHI) start-up which forms a spherical tokamak in a cavity with liquid lithium walls that
RICHMOND, British Columbia (April 30, 2024): 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
Poster This poster was presented at the 25th Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Asheville, North Carolina, April 21-25, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Simon Coop, Filiberto Braglia, Akbar Rohollahi.
Poster This poster was presented at the 25th Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Asheville, North Carolina, April 21-25, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Allison Radich et al.
Poster This poster was presented at the 25th Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Asheville, North Carolina, April 21-25, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Henry Gould et al.
RICHMOND, British Columbia (April 4, 2024): 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
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (March 27, 2024): 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
Abstract We present Integrated System Model-hydrodynamics (ISM-hydro)—an interface tracking, finite volume code for modeling a shaped implosion of a rotating, initially cylindrical, fluid shell (liner) with a free surface. The code is a novel implementation of the mixed Lagrangian–Eulerian approach,
RICHMOND, Canada (February 28, 2024): 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
At General Fusion, radical innovation and rapid iteration come together to deliver technology that will change our energy landscape. Fusion is the ultimate clean energy solution – it is the energy source that powers the sun and stars. Fusion is
RICHMOND, Canada (January 11, 2024): 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
RICHMOND, Canada (December 12, 2023): 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
RICHMOND, Canada (December 4, 2023): 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
Abstract Shaping the inner surface of a rotating, imploding liquid metal liner as it compresses a magnetised plasma target is an important aspect of the Magnetised Target Fusion (MTF) scheme pursued by General Fusion. Reduced-order modelling has shown that the
Canada has a home-grown fusion ecosystem, with General Fusion leading the private sector. In his latest for The Logic, David Reevely covers an exciting and positive development on the future of fusion in Canada: Read the article here
Some may call it “strange,” but we call it the future of energy! Our unique Magnetized Target Fusion technology is featured in Knowable Magazine. Read the article here
“There’s tremendous innovation within the energy industry within Canada. To me, the ultimate of that is the solution of General Fusion and bringing fusion energy to the globe. I feel like today I get to join Team Canada in moving
RICHMOND, Canada (October 31, 2023): 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
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