UK fusion start-up plans reactor, TAE win CalCompetes Grant, BEIS commit £120million, CNL and First Light partner up and tripling the fusion energy product

Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 9 a.m.

A summary of the most recent fusion news presented by Emre Yildirim, PhD Student in Materials for fusion energy at the University of Manchester. All the links from the discussed stories are below:

1. British nuclear fusion start-up plans $570m reactor

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/11/27/british-nuclear-fusion-start-up-plans-570m-reactor/

2. Clean Fusion Energy Leader TAE Technologies Wins $17.4M CalCompetes Grant

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clean-fusion-energy-leader-tae-technologies-wins-17-4m-cal-competes-grant-301682414.html

3. BEIS commits over £120 million to spearhead nuclear fusion innovation

https://www.current-news.co.uk/news/beis-commits-over-120-million-to-spearhead-nuclear-fusion-innovation

4. CNL and First Light Fusion Partner to Explore Tritium Extraction Technologies

https://www.cnl.ca/cnl-and-first-light-fusion-partner-to-explore-tritium-extraction-technologies/

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canadian-collaboration-sets-goal-of-commercial-fus

5. Covering a cylinder with a magnetic coil triples its energy output in nuclear fusion test

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-cylinder-magnetic-triples-energy-output.html