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Electromagnetics

Big Magnets & Big Money Power High-Stakes Race to Commercialize Fusion Energy 

December 2, 2025 Editorial Staff 0

Big magnets and big money are at the core of a high stakes race to commercialize fusion energy, aiming ultimately to transform the world’s energy supply with the immense power of zero-carbon fusion. This article highlights the progress of two pioneering companies located only a two-hour drive apart — General Fusion in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada and Helion in Everett, Washington in the U.S. The technologies of both companies rely on powerful electromagnets, eschewing the use of more expensive and complex superconducting magnets typically used in tokamaks. […]

Electromagnetics

Tokamak Energy Records Fusion Power Magnet Breakthrough – Amidst Rapid Scale Up to Commercialize HTS Magnet Technology Business 

November 19, 2025 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Tokamak Energy Records Fusion Power Magnet Breakthrough – Amidst Rapid Scale Up to Commercialize HTS Magnet Technology Business 

November 19, 2025- Tokamak Energy announces breakthrough results on the path to clean, limitless energy after replicating fusion power plant fields for the first time in its world-leading magnet system. Tokamak Energy’s Demo4, a complete […]

Electromagnetics

New Stellarator Design Points the Way for Future Fusion Power Plants 

April 23, 2025 Editorial Staff Comments Off on New Stellarator Design Points the Way for Future Fusion Power Plants 

Using a new approach, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany have developed a stellarator design that fulfils all the basic physics requirements for a viable fusion power plant. Inside the complex magnetic coils of a stellarator, the new design limits toroidal current in the plasma. […]

Electromagnetics

National Fusion Facility Achieves Milestone 

December 10, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off on National Fusion Facility Achieves Milestone 

The DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, home of the largest magnetic fusion research machine in the U.S., recently surpassed its 200,000th experimental cycle since it began operations, marking an important milestone in the development of clean fusion energy. Referred to as “shots,” each of these tests and discharges have advanced the U.S. fusion research program’s collective understanding of how to create, shape, and confine plasmas to support the development of fusion as a source of base-load energy in the future. […]

Research & Development

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Delivers Superconducting Magnets to University of Wisconsin’s WHAM Project

September 17, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Commonwealth Fusion Systems Delivers Superconducting Magnets to University of Wisconsin’s WHAM Project

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) recently announced that the company has delivered two high-tech superconducting magnets to a University of Wisconsin experiment called WHAM that seeks to breathe new life into a fusion energy approach called magnetic mirror fusion. […]

Electromagnetics

Magnetic Containment of Fusion Energy Seen as Key to ‘Breakthrough of the Century’ 

November 27, 2023 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Magnetic Containment of Fusion Energy Seen as Key to ‘Breakthrough of the Century’ 

Focused on magnetic technology for the confinement of fusion energy, German venture-backed startups Gauss Fusion and Proxima Fusion are moving resolutely to become front-runners in the global race to pioneer commercial fusion power – seen by many as what could be one of the greatest breakthroughs of this century. New leadership, new partners and new funding are coming together at Gauss, but it is not a lone runner as Proxima builds on its close affiliation with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. […]