Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 03 Sep 2025

General Atomics celebrates central solenoid completion

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/general-atomics-celebrates-central-solenoid-completion 

[Latest ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/whatsnew/467] 

First gyrotron ready for commissioning

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/first-gyrotron-ready-commissioning 

Installation of First Japan-Made Gyrotron Completed at ITER

https://www.jaif.or.jp/en/news/industry/7626 

Start-up looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7330/startup-looks-to-commercialize-inertial-fusion-energy/ 

Jeff Lawson and fusion scientists launch startup Inertia

https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/08/27/jeff-lawson-inertia-fusion-startup 

Accelerator could produce commercial tritium for fusion from nuclear waste

https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/commercial-tritium 

LLNL Researchers Employed an AI-Driven Model to Predict Fusion Ignition Shot

https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/llnl-researchers-employed-ai-driven-model-predict-fusion-ignition-shot 

Compressing the Timeline to a Fusion Future

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/product/compressing-the-timeline-to-a-fusion-future 

In a visit marked by energy, curiosity and applause, U.S. Secretary of Energy Wright visits PPPL

https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/visit-marked-energy-curiosity-and-applause-us-secretary-energy-wright-visits-pppl 

UKAEA funds fusion training with Edinburgh and York universities

https://www.niauk.org/ukaea-funds-fusion-training-with-edinburgh-and-york-universities/ 

University of York awarded funding for fusion research and training

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/foster/ 

Understand Fusion

https://understand-energy.stanford.edu/news/understand-fusion 

New method could monitor corrosion and cracking in a nuclear reactor

https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-method-could-monitor-corrosion-and-cracking-nuclear-reactor-0827 

Nvidia Joins Google to Fund Commonwealth’s Fusion Power Plant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/nvidia-joins-google-to-fund-commonwealth-s-fusion-power-plant 

Neutron detector mobilizes muons for nuclear, quantum material

https://www.ornl.gov/news/neutron-detector-mobilizes-muons-nuclear-quantum-material 

Investigating the effect of dielectric barrier discharge cold plasma on the aflatoxin removal and the physicochemical properties of sesame seeds

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-17731-6 

Watermelon-Shaped Atom Seen Breaking Apart in a Most Unusual Way

https://www.sciencealert.com/watermelon-shaped-atom-seen-breaking-apart-in-a-most-unusual-way 

New 3D Model Detects Corrosion, Cracking in Nuclear Reactors

https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/technology/new-3d-model-detects-corrosion-cracking-in-nuclear-reactors/ 

This American nuclear company could help India’s thorium dream

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/29/1122839/this-american-nuclear-company-could-help-indias-thorium-dream/ 

Direct plasma membrane-to-ER lipid transfer outpaces vesicular trafficking, study reveals

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-plasma-membrane-er-lipid-outpaces.html 

Watch as solid hydrogen is extruded to feed German stellarator

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7333/watch-as-solid-hydrogen-is-extruded-to-feed-german-stellarator/ 

Nuclear power on the moon: What we’re watching

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7336/nuclear-power-on-the-moon-what-were-watching/ 

Scientists Discover Unusual Plasma Waves in Jupiter's Aurora

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/scientists-discover-unusual-plasma-waves-in-jupiters-aurora 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

An OpenMC model of the SPARC tokamak for the diagnostic scoping studies

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379625005861 

Numerical investigation of antenna position effect on thrust of a radio-frequency plasma thruster with a magnetic cusp

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/9/093501/3361265/Numerical-investigation-of-antenna-position-effect 

[Of Interest]

Where physics meets poetry

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/9/44/3359659/Where-physics-meets-poetryDefying-the-often 

The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44609/The-successes-and-challenges-of-US-Soviet