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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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 fusion demonstration program presents just some of the exciting milestones on General Fusion’s path to fusion energy for the future of our planet.
