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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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RICHMOND, Canada (September 6, 2023): 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
RICHMOND, Canada (August 9, 2023): Today, General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. To be built at the company’s new Richmond headquarters, this ground-breaking machine is designed to achieve fusion
This poster was presented at the 30th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering, Oxford, UK, July 9-13, 2023. Download Poster as PDF Daymon Krotez, Raphael Segas, Ivan Khalzov, Victoria Suponitsky.
In an interview with Pivot magazine, CEO Greg Twinney shares his career journey, what drives him, and how General Fusion is going to change the world in an in-depth interview with PIVOT magazine. Read the article here
On December 5 of 2022, the team at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab shot 192 high-powered lasers at a manufactured fuel pellet. The power of the lasers caused the deuterium and tritium atoms within the pellet to fuse and ignite,
Kathryn is a Plasma Injector Engineer who primarily works on the plasma injector PI3, the world’s largest and most powerful of its kind. “Our focus is to continuously improve plasma performance by controlling key parameters like the magnetic configuration, pulsed
The Economist’s science and technology editor, Geoffrey Carr, interviews Founder and Chief Science Officer Dr. Michel Laberge on General Fusion’s unique Magnetized Target Fusion approach. The editor discusses the various approaches to fusion energy and says, “it would take only
One of General Fusion’s major investors, Segra Capital Management, believes we have “the most elegant design” to accomplish what is required for a commercial fusion energy system: capability to create and sustain fusion conditions, deployability in terms of energy conversion
Myles Hildebrand is a Program Manager at General Fusion and leads the execution of technology collaborations and partnerships with national laboratories and partners. These include projects with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, and the funding
A novel experiment is presented to study the initial disturbances on a free surface due to the constant acceleration of liquid around a submerged obstacle. The surface response to different obstacle sizes, initial surface heights and fluid velocities is measured
Abstract We explore the initial perturbations that form on a liquid free surface as a result of the submersion of a circular cylinder beneath the surface, a scenario that arises in a number of diverse applications. The behaviour of the
He competes in dragon boat races, weightlifts, skis and is one of General Fusion’s Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) scientists – meet Jean-Sebastien Dick or JS! JS (pictured above on the right) received the “Le génie en images” award from Polytechnique
VANCOUVER, Canada and LONDON, United Kingdom (12 January 2023): Following the resolution to grant planning permission by the South Oxfordshire District Council Planning Committee, construction of General Fusion’s demonstration at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus is
VANCOUVER, Canada (December 12): General Fusion has demonstrated plasma energy confinement times, plasma temperatures, and compression system performance that support meeting its goal of 10 keV (100 million degrees Celsius) in the company’s integrated Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration, being
This poster was presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (2022) and provides an overview of General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology. Download Poster as PDF A. Mossman, M. Laberge, M. Reynolds, S. Howard,
Wal van Lierop is a long-time fusion investor in General Fusion. In his column, he discusses why fusion matters, the progress this industry has made, and the questions savvy investors should be asking of fusion companies. Read the article
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and private fusion developer General Fusion will pursue a series of joint projects to accelerate the deployment of commercial fusion power in Canada. Read the article here
Chalk River, ON – November 10, 2022 – Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, and General Fusion, an international leader in the development of commercial fusion energy, are pleased to announce that they have signed
BY GREG TWINNEY, CEO, GENERAL FUSION Did you read the International Energy Agency’s The Breakthrough Agenda Report 2022 ahead of the COP27 summit this week in Egypt? According to the new report, carbon emissions in the global power sector need
Yan Barcelo, Morningstar: The article talks about some of the hurdles the fusion industry may be facing, like tritium production, and CEO Greg Twinney discusses how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion approach addresses it by producing its own fuel using
This poster was presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (2022) and provides an overview of General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology. Download Poster as PDF A. Mossman, M. Laberge, M. Reynolds, S. Howard,
VANCOUVER, Canada and LONDON, United Kingdom (October 20, 2022): Construction of General Fusion’s demonstration machine, which is being built at the UK Atomic Energy Agency’s Culham Campus, advanced significantly with the fabrication of an at-scale fusion vessel trial ring by
Thomas Lewton, New Scientist: The reporters talks to our Founder and Chief Science Officer, Michel Laberge, about how General Fusion’s approach overcomes barriers to commerical fusion energy. Read the article here
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