Clean energy. Everywhere. Forever. That's the transformative potential of #fusionenergy. Read more about our CEO Greg Twinney's keynote this week at Energy Disruptors in Techcouver.com:
General Fusion
Renewables & Environment
Richmond, British Columbia 29,519 followers
Discover the future in fusion at generalfusion.com.
About us
General Fusion pursues a fast, efficient, and collaborative path to practical fusion power. We are completing an aggressive development plan to deliver economical carbon-free fusion energy with our proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion technology by the 2030s. Our mission is supported by a global syndicate of leading institutional investors, venture capital firms, and technology pioneers, together with governments across North America and Europe. General Fusion collaborates with a global network of partners to create a sustainable future built on cleaner energy, better materials, and a comprehensive life cycle approach to the world’s infrastructure. Founded in 2002, we are headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with additional centers co-located with internationally recognized fusion research laboratories near London, UK, and in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
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http://www.generalfusion.com/
External link for General Fusion
- Industry
- Renewables & Environment
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Richmond, British Columbia
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2002
- Specialties
- fusion energy, plasma physics, and engineering
Locations
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Primary
6020 Russ Baker Way
Richmond, British Columbia V7B 1B4, CA
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, US
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London, GB
Employees at General Fusion
Updates
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We're en route to Kuala Lumpur to attend Khazanah Nasional Berhad’s Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2024. #KMF2024 will explore how we can unearth innovative solutions for complex challenges. On Monday, our founder & Chief Science Officer, Michel Laberge, will present on why the world needs transformative #fusionenergy now: “Fusion energy is the ultimate clean energy source – zero-emissions, safe, abundant, and scalable. It has the potential to power a net-zero future and meet the world's growing energy demand. Today, with the right investment, fusion is within reach like never before.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gzK2mbNd
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Today, on the Energy Disruptors mainstage, our CEO Greg Twinney shared why we need clean and abundant fusion energy: “Our world faces an energy challenge, and the solutions of yesterday are not enough for tomorrow. We need an energy disruptor. The benefits of fusion are transformative – and it’s closer than you think!” At General Fusion, every decision is driven by the need to deliver practical, economic fusion power to the grid. Our fusion technology addresses the material degradation, fuel production, energy capture, and cost barriers to commercialization. With our LM26 demonstration in Canada, we’re positioned to unlock the potential of fusion energy to fundamentally transform the world’s energy grids as we know it. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g9wMGPw #EnergyDisruptors #EDU2024 #fusionenergy #thefutureofenergy
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We’re excited to share some of the simulation work we’re doing with the experts at Veryst Engineering, LLC, to advance compression modelling for LM26, and looking forward to Sean Teller, Ph.D.’s presentation at COMSOL, Inc. this week! #TechTuesday
Veryst's Sean Teller, Ph.D. is excited to deliver a talk at this year’s COMSOL, Inc. event, sharing Veryst’s collaboration with General Fusion's Jean-Sébastien Dick, PhD and the company’s simulation team. Together, we modelled electromechanical compression devices to be used in General Fusion’s LM26 fusion demonstration machine. The simulations coupled solid mechanics and electromagnetic physics with a high-rate temperature-dependent material model developed for pure lithium at elevated temperatures. With these simulations, General Fusion created models used to design LM26, which will use a solid lithium liner to compress plasmas to fusion conditions of 10 keV and scientific breakeven equivalent—transformational milestones needed to commercialize fusion energy! The simulation video below is a model of the lithium compression on General Fusion’s LM26 demonstration machine. COMSOL Conference 2024 Boston takes place October 2-4. Find more information at https://lnkd.in/eBBWHAmU
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General Fusion is located on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people. Today, on Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, we join all Canadians in acknowledging the history and harm of our country’s residential school system. Learning resources for this day of reflection are available here: https://lnkd.in/gEjNtba #NDTR #EveryChildMatters
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This week, we’re at one of Europe’s most important fusion science events—the biennial Symposium on Fusion Technology in Dublin. Our Director of Strategic Partnerships, Myles Hildebrand, is providing an update on our LM26 program and what’s next for our groundbreaking fusion demonstration machine: “I’ve been at General Fusion for almost a decade, and over that time, I’ve worked on dozens of our fusion prototypes, collaborated with top experts around the world to advance our cutting-edge diagnostics program, and seen first-hand the incredible progress we’ve made with our PI3 plasma injector—the world’s largest and most powerful of its kind. This incredible progress brings us to where we are today, integrating our systems into LM26 to achieve transformative milestones for commercial fusion energy. It is exciting to share our journey from then to now with the global fusion community and the work happening in our labs today.”
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It was standing room only at the Scaling Fusion Energy event this week at #ClimateWeekNYC, where our Chief Strategy Officer, Megan Wilson, shared our plan to commercialize practical fusion power with industry, investors, and policymakers: "Our LM26 fusion demonstration machine in Canada is on track to achieve transformative milestones—1 keV in the first half of 2025, then 10 keV, and ultimately the Lawson criteria by 2026—in a way that uniquely addresses the barriers to commercialization and translates to a power plant. Fusion is now!" Thank you, Fusion Industry Association and Jefferies, for hosting an excellent event!
Thanks to Jefferies for partnering on our Scaling Fusion Energy event at NYC Climate Week yesterday. Great discussions on investor and industry perspectives on the path to commercial fusion power. Major takeaways: there is a global race to commercial fusion; strategic, commercially-focused partnerships between all levels (public, private, international, academia, labs, NGOs) are key to accelerating development and deployment; and highlighting tech milestones will unlock more funding and partnerships on the way to fusion power at scale. Big thanks to all the speakers and folks that joined - standing room only! Next year - Madison Square Garden? ⚡ Overview on fusion industry status: Andrew Holland, Chief Executive Officer, Fusion Industry Association Aniket Shah, PhD, Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, Jefferies ⚡ Founder and investor convo: Benj Conway, Chief Executive Officer, Zap Energy Sam Bursten, Principal, Energy Impact Partners ⚡ Panel discussion on industry & investment: Brian Berzin, Chief Executive Officer, Thea Energy Charlie Baynes-Reid, Chief Financial Officer, Type One Energy David Dolezal, Global Head of Energy Transition Investment Banking, Jefferies Jim McNiel, Chief Growth Officer, TAE Technologies, Inc Kate Kelly, Chief of Staff, Avalanche Energy ⚡ Discussion on commercializing & scaling climate tech: Charles Boakye, CFA Energy Transition Strategist, Jefferies Katie Rae, CEO and Managing Partner, Engine Ventures Laurens Speelman, Principal, RMI Megan Wilson, Chief Strategy Officer, General Fusion Phil Larochelle, Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures Rick Needham, Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems #fusionenergy #ClimateWeekNYC
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Our PI3 plasma injector is the world’s largest and most powerful of its kind. Commissioned in 2017, it’s creating plasmas with energy confinement times of approximately 10 milliseconds – the duration required to compress them to fusion conditions. Our team recently celebrated this outstanding success as the next chapter begins in our MTF demonstration program! For LM26, we’re integrating an electromagnetic compression system on our plasma injector to compress plasmas at large scale. This machine is designed to reach our transformational milestones—1 keV, 10 keV, and scientific breakeven equivalent in the next two years! Stay tuned and follow our progress by subscribing to our email updates: https://lnkd.in/gC-dqW5n
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Welcome to the team! We’re excited to host 12 new co-op students this term from The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and University of Toronto. These students will join our engineers and physicists working to advance our MTF technology with LM26. 🚀 Since 2009, our award-winning co-op program has brought on ~145 co-op placements, providing students with practical hands-on experience in the field of STEM. 🥼
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Canadian fusion regulations update! 🍁 Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission – Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire (CNSC), the regulatory body responsible for fusion facilities and activities in Canada, published a position paper stating that it will take a risk-informed approach to regulating fusion, acknowledging that the hazards associated with fusion are lower than the ones from fission, because: 👉 Fusion does not use materials that undergo fission reactions 👉 Criticality is not a concern for fusion facilities 👉 Fusion does not produce spent radioactive fuel requiring long-term management 👉 Radiological hazards from potential accidents are low risk Next, the CNSC expects to publish a discussion paper in fall 2024. We look forward to providing input into a framework that supports the rapid and safe deployment of transformative #fusionenergy. Find the position paper here:
Regulating fusion energy technology: Position paper
cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca