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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SRNL and UKAEA, labs renowned for neutronics simulation, tritium innovation, and fuel cycle R&D, recently reviewed key parameters of the company’s unique approach to practical fusion energy RICHMOND, British Columbia (September 19, 2024): New analyses from the U.S. Savannah River
Executive Summary This report describes the results from an INFUSE research project, where Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in collaboration with General Fusion (GF) used process modeling to understand and optimize commercial power plant (CPP) fuel cycle designs based on
Summary This UKAEA report details TBR analysis for General Fusion’s MTF concept for fusion power. Simplified neutronics modelling, based on a small, dense magnetized Deuterium-Tritium plasma surrounded by a thick layer of liquid, breeder metal was performed. Lithium and lithium-lead
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
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.
