Our Technology
A groundbreaking fusion demonstration program designed to commercialize our technology.
The Fusion Demo Program
We are accelerating our technological advancements to bring commercial fusion energy to the grid by the 2030s. General Fusion is constructing a cutting-edge Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) fusion machine in Richmond, named Lawson Machine 26 or LM26. This machine is designed to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, with a breakeven target set for 2026.
The plasma injector has already achieved the temperature and energy confinement times required by the new machine. LM26’s results will validate the company’s ability to compress magnetized plasmas in a repeatable manner and achieve fusion conditions at scale using General Fusion’s uniquely practical approach to fusion without requiring superconducting magnets or high-powered lasers.
This new machine will significantly de-risk the commercialization process, as it is designed to provide technical performance in the near term while shortening the technical path from our next near-commercial machine to a commercial plant.
Core Fusion Technologies
Creating fusion conditions. Commercializing fusion power. We’re proving the viability of our core MTF technologies with attention to sustainable design for industrial infrastructure. We believe greening our global industries should start at the source.
24 prototypes and over 200,000 plasma experiments helped us build the world’s largest and most powerful operational fusion plasma injector for LM26.
With our scalable control systems, we’ve achieved the required timing precision with full-scale drivers to produce smooth, rapid, and symmetric compression of a liquid metal cavity.
Our field test program substantiates our understanding of plasma behavior and and
neutron yield under compression as well as
plasma behaviour in liquid metal systems.
Scale plasma of commercial fusion machine.
Achieve fusion conditions.
Target scientific breakeven.
Our Impact
LM26 is a MTF demonstration that will seamlessly integrate our operational plasma injector with a simplified compression system. The plasma injector has already achieved the temperature and magnetic confinement times required by the new machine.
The data gathered from LM26 will be incorporated into the design of our planned near commercial machine in the UK. We are collaborating closely with our partners at the UKAEA as we advance LM26.
Global Fusion Infrastructure
We’re developing a pipeline of early adopters and capturing market leadership for fusion energy. With a practical, durable, and cost-effective machine, we aim to create the conditions and market infrastructure to sustainably convert energy with an economical end-to-end solution.
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Media Inquiries
“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
The fusion demonstration program presents just some of the exciting milestones on General Fusion’s path to fusion energy for the future of our planet.
