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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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
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
Poster This poster was presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7-11, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Pat Carle, Stephen Howard, Andrea Tancetti, Abetharan Antony, Celso Ribeiro, Simon Coop, Filiberto Braglia,
Poster This poster was presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7-11, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Aaron Froese, M. Reynolds, V. Suponitsky, J.-S. Dick, R. Segas, C. P. Hung, I.
Poster This poster was presented at the 33rd Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT), Dublin City University, Ireland, September 22-27, 2024. Download Poster as PDF Myles Hildebrand.
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.
