General Fusion (English Wikipedia)

Reynolds, Meritt; Froese, Aaron; Barsky, Sandra; Devietien, Peter; Toth, Gabor; Brennan, Dylan; Hooper, Bick (31 October 2016). "Simulation of MTF experiments at General Fusion". Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 61 (18): CP10.108. Bibcode:2016APS..DPPC10108R.

bbc.com

"Nuclear energy: Fusion plant backed by Jeff Bezos to be built in UK". BBC News. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
Frochtzwajg, Jonathan (28 April 2016). "The secretive, billionaire-backed plans to harness fusion". Retrieved 17 January 2017.

bctechnology.com

"Burnaby-based General Fusion Inc. Forms Research Partnership With McGill University". T-Net. T-Net British Columbia. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
"General Fusion Announces Winner of $20,000 Crowdsourced Engineering Challenge". T-Net. T-Net British Columbia. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

bloomberg.com

Wade, Will (30 November 2021). "Bezos-Backed General Fusion Raises $130 Million for Reactor". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 29 December 2021.

canadianbusiness.com

"General Fusion raises another $27 million to advance its reactor". Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News. 20 May 2015. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

chrysalix.com

Chrysalix is funded by a number of investors including several energy firms; its investors are listed on "Chrysalix' website" Archived 10 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine

cnet.com

news.cnet.com

Kanellos, Michael. "More money for fusion energy". CNET. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

cnl.ca

"General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories partner to accelerate cleantech in Canada". 27 July 2021.
"CNL and General Fusion sign MOU to advance commercial fusion energy". 10 November 2022.
"General Fusion Partners with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to Advance Commercial Power Plant Design". 4 April 2024.

cvent.com

custom.cvent.com

Braglia, Filiberto; Carle, Patrick; Rohollahi, Akbar; Howard, Stephen; Hildebrand, Myles. "Diagnostics for the General Fusion LM26 Machine" (PDF). Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

dailyhive.com

Chan, Kenneth (20 January 2023). "Vancouver-based General Fusion achieves milestone in plan to build major UK test plant". Daily Hive. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

doi.org

Laberge, Michel (14 August 2018). "Magnetized Target Fusion with a Spherical Tokamak". Journal of Fusion Energy. 38 (1): 199–203. doi:10.1007/s10894-018-0180-3. S2CID 125279953.
Clery, Daniel (2014). "Fusion's Restless Pioneers". Science. 345 (6195): 370–375. Bibcode:2014Sci...345..370C. doi:10.1126/science.345.6195.370. PMID 25061186.
Turchi, Peter J.; Frese, Sherry D.; Frese, Michael H. (October 2017). "Stabilized Liner Compressor for Low-Cost Controlled Fusion at Megagauss Field Levels". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 45 (10): 2800–2809. Bibcode:2017ITPS...45.2800T. doi:10.1109/TPS.2017.2702625. S2CID 30191919.
Gibbs, Wayt (18 October 2016). "Can Small Fusion Energy Start-Ups Conquer the Problems That Killed the Giants?". Scientific American. 315 (5): 38–45. Bibcode:2016SciAm.315e..38G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1116-38. PMID 27918497.
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Snead, Lance L. (1999). "Fusion Energy Applications". Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies. pp. 389–427. doi:10.1016/B978-008042683-9/50014-5. ISBN 978-0-08-042683-9.
Laberge, M.; Howard, S.; Richardson, D.; Froese, A.; Suponitsky, V.; Reynolds, M.; Plant, D. (2013). "Acoustically driven Magnetized Target Fusion". 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE). pp. 1–7. doi:10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635495. ISBN 978-1-4799-0171-5. S2CID 31681949.
Antony, Abetharan; et al. (A. Antony, L. Carbajal, T. D. Rognlien, M. V. Umansky, A. Froese, S. Howard, C. Ribeiro, R. Ivanov, C. Dunlea, C. P. McNally) (March 2025). "Boundary plasma studies for a spherical tokamak with lithium walls" (PDF). Nuclear Materials and Energy. 42. doi:10.1016/j.nme.2025.101885. 101885.
Mangione, Nicholas S.; Wu, Hao; Preston, Claire; Lee, Anthony M.D.; Entezami, Sohrab; Ségas, Raphaël; Forysinski, Piotr W.; Suponitsky, Victoria (January 2024). "Shape manipulation of a rotating liquid liner imploded by arrays of pneumatic pistons: Experimental and numerical study". Fusion Engineering and Design. 198: 114087. Bibcode:2024FusED.19814087M. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.114087.

energy.gov

"DOE Announces $46 Million for Commercial Fusion Energy Development". United States Department of Energy. 31 May 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.

espacenet.com

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euro-fusion.org

"Introducing alternative fusion concepts: General Fusion". EUROfusion. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

financialpost.com

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"General Fusion Announces Funding to Build New Fusion Machine Targeting Scientific Breakeven by 2026".
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business.financialpost.com

"Bezos-Backed Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million for Demo System". Financial Post. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

forbes.com

O'Connor, Clare. "Amazon Billionaire Bezos Backs Nuclear Fusion In $19.5 Million Round". Forbes. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

fusionenergybase.com

"PCS". Fusion Energy Base. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.

fusionindustryassociation.org

The global fusion industry in 2023 - Fusion Companies Survey by the Fusion Industry Association (PDF) (Report). Fusion Industry Association. 12 July 2023. p. 41. Retrieved 13 July 2023. LM26 is designed to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, with a goal of achieving breakeven by 2026. The data gathered from LM26 will be incorporated into the design of the company's planned near-commercial machine in the UK.
"The global fusion industry in 2023: Fusion Companies Survey by the Fusion Industry Association" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2025.

geekwire.com

"General Fusion lands $25M and reveals plans for demo machine in B.C." 9 August 2023.
"General Fusion lands $25M and reveals plans for demo machine in B.C." 9 August 2023.
Boyle, Alan (26 October 2018). "Canadian government invests $38M in General Fusion to boost energy research". Geekwire. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
"General Fusion lands $25M and reveals plans for demo machine in B.C." 9 August 2023.

generalfusion.com

Krotez, Daymon; Segas, Raphael; Khalzov, Ivan; Suponitsky, Victoria (July 2023). Conceptual Design of a Magnetized Target Fusion Power Plant (PDF). 30th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering. E-267.
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"Innovation in Action: LM26 on Track After Swift 2023 Launch". 31 January 2024.
"Fusion Demonstration Program". General Fusion. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
Peter O’Shea, Michel Laberge, Mike Donaldson, Michael Delage "Acoustically Driven Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion: An Overview" Archived 18 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics 31 October – 4 November 2016. San Jose, California. CP10.00103
Russ Ivanov, Patrick Carle, Neil Carter, Ken Jensen, Stephen Howard, Michel Laberge, Alex Mossman, Peter O’Shea, Adrian Wong, William Young "SPECTOR 1 Plasma as a Target for Adiabatic Compression Archived 15 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine" Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics 31 October – 4 November 2016. San Jose, California. CP10.00106
Reynolds, Meritt (9 August 2017). "MHD Simulation of Plasma Compression Experiments". General Fusion. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
"World's largest plasma injector brings commercial fusion energy a step closer". General Fusion. General Fusion, Inc. 21 December 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
"How it Works: The crucial role of our compression system". 7 October 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
Antony, Abetharan; et al. (A. Antony, L. Carbajal, T. D. Rognlien, M. V. Umansky, A. Froese, S. Howard, C. Ribeiro, R. Ivanov, C. Dunlea, C. P. McNally) (March 2025). "Boundary plasma studies for a spherical tokamak with lithium walls" (PDF). Nuclear Materials and Energy. 42. doi:10.1016/j.nme.2025.101885. 101885.
"A Historic Decision: To Demonstrate Practical Fusion at Culham". General Fusion. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
"General Fusion's Team, Investors and Research Partners". General Fusion. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

globenewswire.com

"General Fusion exceeds core technology performance targets with plasma and compression prototypes". Globe Newswire (Press release). 12 December 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
"General Fusion Closes $65M of Series E Financing". Global Newswire (Press release). 16 December 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

harvard.edu

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Clery, Daniel (2014). "Fusion's Restless Pioneers". Science. 345 (6195): 370–375. Bibcode:2014Sci...345..370C. doi:10.1126/science.345.6195.370. PMID 25061186.
Turchi, Peter J.; Frese, Sherry D.; Frese, Michael H. (October 2017). "Stabilized Liner Compressor for Low-Cost Controlled Fusion at Megagauss Field Levels". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 45 (10): 2800–2809. Bibcode:2017ITPS...45.2800T. doi:10.1109/TPS.2017.2702625. S2CID 30191919.
Gibbs, Wayt (18 October 2016). "Can Small Fusion Energy Start-Ups Conquer the Problems That Killed the Giants?". Scientific American. 315 (5): 38–45. Bibcode:2016SciAm.315e..38G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1116-38. PMID 27918497.
Mangione, Nicholas S.; Wu, Hao; Preston, Claire; Lee, Anthony M.D.; Entezami, Sohrab; Ségas, Raphaël; Forysinski, Piotr W.; Suponitsky, Victoria (January 2024). "Shape manipulation of a rotating liquid liner imploded by arrays of pneumatic pistons: Experimental and numerical study". Fusion Engineering and Design. 198: 114087. Bibcode:2024FusED.19814087M. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.114087.
Reynolds, Meritt; Froese, Aaron; Barsky, Sandra; Devietien, Peter; Toth, Gabor; Brennan, Dylan; Hooper, Bick (31 October 2016). "Simulation of MTF experiments at General Fusion". Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 61 (18): CP10.108. Bibcode:2016APS..DPPC10108R.

iaea.org

nucleus.iaea.org

Plant, David (13 June 2018). "General Fusion Program, IAEA Workshop o Fusion Enterprises" (PDF). IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency. Retrieved 5 February 2023.

ieee.org

spectrum.ieee.org

Patel, Prachi (13 August 2021). "General Fusion Takes Aim at Practical Fusion Power". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

innocentive.com

"General Fusion Challenge: Method for Sealing Anvil Under Repetitive Impacts Against Molten Metal". InnoCentive. Wazoku. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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lanl.gov

fusionenergy.lanl.gov

Siemon, R.; Peterson; Ryutov, D. (1999). The relevance of Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) to practical energy production (PDF). Los Alamos National Laboratory.

linkedin.com

Cassidy, Brendan (8 December 2016). "Five Things to Consider Before You Enlist the Crowd". Retrieved 17 January 2017.

mit.edu

psfc.mit.edu

"PSFC Seminar: Acoustically-Driven Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion". MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. MIT. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

mitacs.ca

"Magnetic Compression and Stability of Spheromaks". Mitacs. 17 November 2014. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

neimagazine.com

"General Fusion cuts staff due to financing constraints". Nuclear Engineering International. 9 May 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.

nih.gov

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Clery, Daniel (2014). "Fusion's Restless Pioneers". Science. 345 (6195): 370–375. Bibcode:2014Sci...345..370C. doi:10.1126/science.345.6195.370. PMID 25061186.
Gibbs, Wayt (18 October 2016). "Can Small Fusion Energy Start-Ups Conquer the Problems That Killed the Giants?". Scientific American. 315 (5): 38–45. Bibcode:2016SciAm.315e..38G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1116-38. PMID 27918497.

ornl.gov

infuse.ornl.gov

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pmi.org

Ambreen, Ali (December 2016). "Reviving the Fusion Dream". PM Network. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

popsci.com

Dean, Josh (23 December 2008). "This machine might* save the world". Popular Science.

pppl.gov

"INFUSE workshop gives private and public fusion partners a chance to network and share experiences".

qmul.ac.uk

sems.qmul.ac.uk

Lockwood, David. "Staff: Research Projects: Dr Eldad Avital: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London". sems.qmul.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

science.org

Clery, Daniel (16 June 2021). "Plans unveiled for private U.K. fusion reactor powered by 'smoke rings' and pneumatic pistons". Science. AAAS. Retrieved 18 June 2021.

sdtc.ca

"Demonstration of fusion energy technology - clean energy". Sustainable Development Technology Canada. 19 September 2016. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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semanticscholar.org

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Laberge, Michel (14 August 2018). "Magnetized Target Fusion with a Spherical Tokamak". Journal of Fusion Energy. 38 (1): 199–203. doi:10.1007/s10894-018-0180-3. S2CID 125279953.
Turchi, Peter J.; Frese, Sherry D.; Frese, Michael H. (October 2017). "Stabilized Liner Compressor for Low-Cost Controlled Fusion at Megagauss Field Levels". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 45 (10): 2800–2809. Bibcode:2017ITPS...45.2800T. doi:10.1109/TPS.2017.2702625. S2CID 30191919.
Laberge, M.; Howard, S.; Richardson, D.; Froese, A.; Suponitsky, V.; Reynolds, M.; Plant, D. (2013). "Acoustically driven Magnetized Target Fusion". 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE). pp. 1–7. doi:10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635495. ISBN 978-1-4799-0171-5. S2CID 31681949.

sleek.net

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talknuclear.ca

Stewart, John (21 January 2015). "Innovations we need - Now, and for generations". Talk Nuclear. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

techcrunch.com

"Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it". TechCrunch. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.

technologyreview.com

Hamilton, Tyler (31 July 2009). "A New Approach to Fusion". MIT Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

theglobeandmail.com

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thestar.com

Hamilton, Tyler (20 April 2009). "Looking for a net gain in the energy sector". Toronto Star.
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time.com

Grossman, Lev (October 2015). "Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy's Holy Grail". Time.

triumf.ca

"NSERC awards funding to TRIUMF & General Fusion to develop state-of-the-art diagnostic system for LM26 fusion machine | TRIUMF : Canada's particle accelerator centre".

ukaeaevents.com

Edwards, Warren (7 July 2022). "Fusion Demonstration Plant UKAEA 8th Supplier Event" (PDF). Retrieved 28 January 2022.

ulisboa.pt

ipfn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

"IPFN and General Fusion collaborate on new diagnostic for fusion device - IPFN".

web.archive.org

VanderKlippe, Nathan (16 November 2007). "Garage scientist aims to thwart OPEC". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
Cartwright, Jon. "An Independent Endeavour". Physics World. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
"Introducing alternative fusion concepts: General Fusion". EUROfusion. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
"Magnetic Compression and Stability of Spheromaks". Mitacs. 17 November 2014. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
"Fusion Demonstration Program". General Fusion. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
Ambreen, Ali (December 2016). "Reviving the Fusion Dream". PM Network. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
Peter O’Shea, Michel Laberge, Mike Donaldson, Michael Delage "Acoustically Driven Magnetized Target Fusion at General Fusion: An Overview" Archived 18 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics 31 October – 4 November 2016. San Jose, California. CP10.00103
"Demonstration of fusion energy technology - clean energy". Sustainable Development Technology Canada. 19 September 2016. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
Russ Ivanov, Patrick Carle, Neil Carter, Ken Jensen, Stephen Howard, Michel Laberge, Alex Mossman, Peter O’Shea, Adrian Wong, William Young "SPECTOR 1 Plasma as a Target for Adiabatic Compression Archived 15 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine" Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics 31 October – 4 November 2016. San Jose, California. CP10.00106
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Reynolds, Meritt (9 August 2017). "MHD Simulation of Plasma Compression Experiments". General Fusion. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
Cruickshank, Ainslie (19 December 2018). "Inside the Burnaby, B.C., lab that's forging the future of energy". Archived from the original on 25 December 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
Stewart, John (21 January 2015). "Innovations we need - Now, and for generations". Talk Nuclear. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
Lockwood, David. "Staff: Research Projects: Dr Eldad Avital: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London". sems.qmul.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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"Acoustically Driven Magnetized Fusion". SDTC. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
"Media Backgrounder: Sustainable Development Technology Canada". SDTC website. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
"General Fusion raises another $27 million to advance its reactor". Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News. 20 May 2015. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
"General Fusion Challenge: Method for Sealing Anvil Under Repetitive Impacts Against Molten Metal". InnoCentive. Wazoku. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
"General Fusion Challenge: Data-Driven Prediction of Plasma Performance". InnoCentive. Wazoku. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
"General Fusion Challenge: Fast Current Switch in Plasma Device". InnoCentive. Wazoku. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

world-nuclear-news.org

"General Fusion, Microsoft team up on data analysis". world-nuclear-news.org. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
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yahoo.com

"General Fusion exceeds core technology performance targets with plasma and compression prototypes". yahoo.com. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.