Germany pivots to nuclear fusion, partnering with Focused Energy and RWE. Breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore bring commercial fusion closer to reality.

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most established fusion research facility in the world. This year, NIF continued firing its reactor, tweaking even the most minute details of its setup in hopes of the slightest improvement in energy yield efficiency.

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. leadership, China is catching up by spending twice as much and building projects at record speed. Often called the holy grail of clean energy ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally composed of uranium-235 (U-235) along with other ...

Private participation is set to be allowed in the full value chain of nuclear power, a clean energy source that is still relatively untapped even in advanced economies, and grossly under-utilised in India. In fact, Budget FY26 unveiled a Nuclear Energy Mission for R&D in small modular reactors (SMRs) with an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore.

Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to that of a star.

This could be another newsy year for the long-awaited promise of nuclear fusion. A recent piece in The Economist highlights two major developments that signal a shift from public to private sector leadership: the planned opening of SPARC, a near ...

So far this year, per Crunchbase data, investors have poured close to $2 billion into an assortment of companies across stages working on nuclear power offerings outside of the fusion space. The funding influx coincides with public market offerings activity as well.