General Fusion

The Fusion Industry Association’s annual global fusion report is out! Find the latest stats on the growing fusion industry and progress updates, including highlights from our LM26 program over the past year. 👇

This week, we met with 30+ academic leaders, researchers, and scientific advisors from universities and institutions across Canada. We highlighted our robust network of existing collaborations—with TRIUMF, Simon Fraser University, McGill University, Queen's University, and more—and explored further potential areas of public-private cooperation to advance our MTF technology. Teaming up with Canada’s top researchers accelerates our tech development, builds Canada’s fusion expertise, and fosters the next generation of fusion researchers. Together, we’re working to advance a clean energy future! 🤝⚡

The Pacific Northwest's thriving innovation ecosystem is also a major hub for the fusion sector. At last week's PNW Climate Week, our SVP of Finance,  Robert Crystal, joined climate tech leaders from across the region to share his insights on commercializing fusion technology to power the global energy transition. We're approaching transformational technical milestones with practical MTF and on the path to powering the grid with zero-emissions #fusionenergy in the next decade!

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We’re proud to be a part of the thriving innovation ecosystem on Sea Island at Vancouver Airport Authority and participate in the Integrated Marketplace to advance our clean energy technology. ⚡

B.C.’s strong tech capabilities support our rapid fusion technology development! We’re excited to work with local innovators Motus Design Group to enhance our state-of-the-art diagnostics system for LM26. 🚀

We’re dedicated to upskilling the cleantech industry. 💪 Through our collaborations with Mitacs, researchers across many fields—plasma physics, diagnostics, data, controls and instrumentation, and mechanical and electrical engineering—work with us to build the future of energy! We’ve employed STEM researchers from across Mitacs's vast talent network, from institutions such as The University of British Columbia, TRIUMF, McGill University, Queen's University, University of Waterloo, and University of Saskatchewan, providing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to build, simulate, and test the fusion machines informing our path to commercialization. Several of Mitacs’s career-ready students joined us full-time and today hold a variety of roles at the company. Programs like Mitacs connect us with skilled talent to advance our technology toward a clean energy future powered by fusion. Thanks for having us at your recent board reception in Vancouver! 🌱

New funding from Innovate BC will enhance our diagnostics system for LM26! ⚡ We’re collaborating with BC-based Motus Design Group to develop a first-of-a-kind component that will enable us to quickly install diagnostics on LM26 and support the extraction and storage of data. When operational, the robust diagnostics system will provide thousands of data points used to improve the capabilities of the machine with each run. Innovate BC connects BC’s tech ecosystem, fostering innovation to drive a thriving, sustainable, and inclusive economy. The Integrated Marketplace initiative, created as part of the StrongerBC Economic Plan and supported by Pacific Economic Development Canada | Développement économique Canada pour le Pacifique, accelerates and de-risks the adoption of domestic innovations to support decarbonization. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gZFEFHGi

A look behind-the-scenes: Our team uses a mandrel to shape custom fibreglass parts for LM26. 🛠 Today at our labs, we’re using the mandrel to form and test a transport carrier for LM26's solid lithium liners. The first-of-a-kind liners will be inserted into our groundbreaking machine and compressed in about five milliseconds using electromagnetic force, heating plasma to fusion temperatures of over 100 million degrees Celsius. The carriers are another example of our in-house innovation; we prototype, test, and iterate rapidly to advance our technology quickly. #TechTuesday #CanadianInnovation #fusionenergy

#DidYouKnow❓ Our machine that started it all achieved its first fusion reaction in 2005, producing neutrons and advancing critical MTF research & development. Today, the prototype is a part of Canadian innovation history, on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. Our founder, Michel Laberge, and first employee, Lon McIlwraith, built the machine in a Bowen Island garage, determined to demonstrate that MTF is the future of clean energy. As one of the first private fusion companies in the world, we’ve driven industry advances over the past two decades. Today, our journey continues with LM26—our MTF fusion demonstration that will achieve breakthrough milestones over the next two years and put us on track to commercialization by the early-to-mid 2030s. 🌠 #CanadianInnovation #fusionenergy