Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 19 Dec 2025

Magnet cold test facility - First coil ready to face deep-space cold

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/first-coil-ready-face-deep-space-cold 

[Latest ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/whatsnew/481]

Fusion isn't here — but leading startup is making construction progress

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/commonwealth-fusion-energy-sun-power 

Solid cryogenic hydrogen pellet impact measurements at 500 m/s

https://www.cea.fr/drf/irig/english/Pages/News/Highlights/2025/31_DSBT.aspx 

ITER builds global, high-speed data backbone for remote scientific participation

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/ITER-builds-global-high-speed-data-backbone-for-remote-scientific-participation 

How AI will help get fusion from lab to grid by the 2030s

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/12/how-ai-will-help-get-fusion-from-lab-to-grid-by-the-2030s/ 

AI meets Fusion – The New Kid in the Control Room

https://euro-fusion.org/eurofusion-news/ai-and-fusion-in-the-control-room/ 

UKAEA unviels its latest nuclear fusion cryogenic test rig

https://www.engineerlive.com/content/ukaea-unviels-its-latest-nuclear-fusion-cryogenic-test-rig 

Thea Energy Completes Fusion Power Plant Preconceptual Design

https://www.powermag.com/thea-energy-completes-fusion-power-plant-preconceptual-design/ 

Germany produces hydrogen plasma at 20 million ºC — It worked for just 360 seconds but its “promising”

https://energiesmedia.com/germany-produces-hydrogen-plasma-at-20-million-c/ 

Distinguished Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi Appointed Inaugural Holder of Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair in Excellence

https://samueli.ucla.edu/distinguished-professor-chandrashekhar-joshi-appointed-inaugural-holder-of-mukund-padmanabhan-term-chair-in-excellence/ 

Lucideon appointed by the UKAEA

https://www.niauk.org/lucideon-appointed-by-the-ukaea/ 

DOE funding for university-led nuclear infrastructure projects

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/doe-funding-for-university-led-nuclear-infrastructure-projects/ 

How Computational Physics Is Shaping Modern Science

https://shooliniuniversity.com/blog/how-computational-physics-is-shaping-modern-science/?amp=1 

Genesis Mission Starting to Take Shape

https://www.aip.org/fyi/genesis-mission-starting-to-take-shape 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03107-0 

Demonstration of scissor-cross ionization injection in laser wakefield accelerators

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02440-3 

The mechanism of anomalous power absorption in X2-mode ECRH experiments at the TJ-II stellarator

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/12/122505/3374847/The-mechanism-of-anomalous-power-absorption-in-X2 

Turbulence-induced safety factor profile flattening at rational surfaces in tokamaks with low magnetic shear

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ae1da8 

[Of Interest]

New breakthrough in detecting “ghost particles” from the Sun

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-12-12-new-breakthrough-detecting-ghost-particles-sun