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• [New] Plans to build a nuclear fusion power plant on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border could bring huge benefits. Electricity Info
• [New] Collaboration could help provide a path toward nuclear fusion, as last year, the U.S. and Japan announced a partnership to further the development of nuclear fusion. Yahoo News
• [New] The test from Durham University could provide one of the next steps to achieving nuclear fusion. Yahoo News
• [New] Nuclear fusion energy could create about four times more energy per unit of fuel than nuclear fission. Yahoo News
• Nuclear fusion offers the promise of providing nearly limitless clean energy, which could revolutionise efforts to meet the world's energy needs sustainably, changing the trajectory of the climate crisis. The Independent
• The ITER tokamak is expected to be the world's largest ever nuclear fusion experiment when assembly is completed (projected for 2033). Sciencing
• ITER is an international nuclear fusion reactor experiment that hopes to build a clean power-generating star on Earth in the 2030s. The Weekly Anthropocene
• A team of scientists at the US government's Los Alamos National Laboratory is working to turn nuclear waste into tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that could one day fuel nuclear fusion power plants. Chemistry World
• Within 10 years, solutions such as geothermal, nuclear fusion, and carbon capture will provide the energy needed to fuel grand ambitions. Yahoo News
• A rare-earth barium copper oxide is now being used by an Oxfordshire-based company for its superconducting properties in the hope it will make nuclear fusion a practical reality. SKY
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $1 billion in funding as it tries to commercialize nuclear fusion, with plans to build a Virginia plant to supply Google, which they hope will be operational by 2030. Augusta Free Press
• Google even hopes that a quantum computer could help to design the holy grail of clean technology - a working nuclear fusion reactor. NPR
• Tech companies rake in $7.1 billion on quest to harness nuclear fusion as major energy source from NBC Bay Area noted new investments, an increase in the fusion workforce, and how the benefits of fusion could potentially impact millions of people facing energy crises around the world. Fusion Industry Association
• A pioneering British nuclear fusion company has raised almost £100m and suggested it could have a pilot plant running within a decade, bringing hopes of a near-limitless source of clean electricity closer. The Telegraph
• Earlier this morning, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Organization announced what has long been known: The largest tokamak in the world will be delayed further, prolonging the awaited nuclear fusion machine's operations by at least a decade. Gizmodo
• ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until 2035 - a delay of 10 years. New Scientist
• Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US state of New Mexico have unveiled simulations showing how radioactive nuclear waste could be repurposed to generate tritium, the rare hydrogen isotope that fuels nuclear fusion. The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency
• The SPARC nuclear fusion reactor, a US project involving MIT, is currently in development in Devens, Massachusetts and scheduled to start operations in 2026. Daily Mail

Last updated: 12 October 2025