Helion secures funding to accelerate the development of its commercial-scale fusion power plant, aiming to deliver electricity to Microsoft.

Fusion uses the opposite process: It merges two light elements into a heavier one. This approach can theoretically produce significantly more power than fission. In practice, however ...

A senior Chinese scientist has revealed an ambitious plan to use super heavy rockets to build solar power stations in space, calling it “another Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth”.

But a whole host of engineering challenges must be addressed before fusion can be scaled up to become a safe, affordable source of virtually unlimited clean power. In other words ... and private ...

Helion intends for its first fusion power plant to be sited in the state of Washington. In 2023, the company announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft to deliver electricity from a ...

Helion plans to locate its first fusion power plant in Washington state. In 2023, it announced a power purchase agreement with Microsoft, which includes the delivery of electricity from a 50MW ...

Fusion is desirable because it is an essentially limitless source of carbon-free power waiting to be unlocked. “We’re really excited for what we’re building,” said Helion CEO and co ...

But a whole host of engineering challenges must be addressed before fusion can be scaled up to become a safe, affordable source of virtually unlimited clean power ... in this space could be ...

China has achieved a major milestone in the quest for practical commercial fusion power. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak reactor in Hefei, Anhui Province has set a new record ...

The firm's latest Series F round brings the total investment into Helion over the $1 billion line, and it's aiming to begin delivering power from a single fusion 50-MW plant to Microsoft by 2028.

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