Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators.

Superconductors made by Faraday Factory helped to achieve first plasma in a levitated dipole fusion prototype

Faraday Factory Japan, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-temperature superconductors, announces that its superconductor tape was successfully used to build magnets for a novel fusion prototype that has recently achieved first plasma TOKYO, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Faraday Factory Japan supplied high temperature superconductor tape for magnet coils used in OpenStar’s magnet prototype with a unique engineering design. On its path to pro…

First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant

There are a remarkable number of commercial fusion power startups, considering that it's a technology that's built a reputation for being perpetually beyond the horizon. Many of them focus on radically new technologies for heating and compressing plasmas, or fusing unusual combinations of…

Nuclear fusion is a great source of hope for future energy security and is being promoted worldwide in research reactors. Precisely detecting their performance requires measuring systems that deliver valid data even under extreme conditions. Its core: the Bolometers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microtechnology and Microsystems IMM. The experts present their sophisticated sensors at this year's Hannover Messe from 31 March to 4 April at the jo…