Our Technology
Fusion energy technology so real you can touch it.
Magnetized Target Fusion offers a practical path to delivering fusion energy technology.
Using modern electronics, materials, and advances in plasma physics, General Fusion intends to commercialize fusion technology to power the world.
We’re building out an end-to-end supply chain to distribute generated fusion energy across the globe. By working with customers and international partnerships to inform power plant-scale technology, we’re making clean energy a reality.
How It Works
Right now, we’re bringing our technologies together into the Fusion Demonstration Plant, a power-plant-relevant system to test and refine our Magnetized Target Fusion system.
Timeline
General Fusion is on track to commercialize its technology later this decade, leading to the deployment of fusion energy power plants. The company plans to enter global energy markets in the 2030s at a price competitive with fossil fuels.
Building and testing our fusion power technology with the Fusion Demo Plant is the culmination of several development milestones.
See how far we’ve come — and discover where we’re going next.
Why Now?
Global shifts in markets, investments, carbon policies — as well as scientific advancements in fusion science make now the time to invest in clean energy using fusion power technology.
Fusion Demonstration Plant
Creating fusion conditions isn’t how we define success. Creating fusion conditions with a plan to distribute fusion energy plants around the globe — that’s our goal. We aim to add options to meet carbon neutrality targets and transform energy markets.
That’s why we’re building a Fusion Demonstration Plant for power-plant-relevant fusion testing.
Fusion Energy Technologies
The Fusion Demo Plant syncs up the discrete fusion power technologies we’ve already tested and refined to serve as the foundation for our comprehensive commercialization strategy.
A liquid metal wall protects the machine from extreme fusion conditions and helps to preserve shielding for the power plant’s lifetime.
Fusion multiplies fuel directly within the lead-lithium liquid metal compressor technology.
The machine captures most fusion energy for use in power generation and uses a proven liquid metal-to-steam heat exchanger.
General Fusion’s design avoids the need for expensive high power lasers or large superconducting magnets.
Navigating the best path to reaching net-zero carbon emissions for 2050 and beyond.
Fusion energy has the potential to transform how we can use renewables, providing reliable power, and stabilizing the grid.
We believe the future of energy is better with fusion. Join us in transforming how we energize the world — and make the world better in the process.
Resources
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Media Inquiries
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
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
VANCOUVER, Canada (October 17): Today, General Fusion and the UKAEA kick off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of an important collaborative agreement. With these unique projects, General Fusion will benefit from the vast
-Murad Hemmadi, The Logic: CEO Greg Twinney and Board member Zoltan Tompa speak to technology reporter Murad Hemmadi about progress at General Fusion and in the fusion sector. (more…)
People and organizations change in order to grow. Since I joined General Fusion over two years ago, the team has ushered in many exciting advances. We have seen our staff triple in number, established partnerships worldwide, and recruited a world-class
A sustainable and economical path to net-zero carbon emissions is within our grasp.
