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Investors are pouring billions into fusion companies, encouraged by breakthroughs that they contend have put a sustained ...
With Polaris, their seventh-generation reactor, due to demonstrate net electricity by 2024, Helion could leap ahead in the race for fusion power. Real Engineering Posted: April 22, 2025 | Last ...
The company raised $425 million in January 2025, around the same time that it turned on Polaris, a prototype reactor. Helion ...
Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B Fusion energy startup Helion has yet to prove it can generate electricity, but ...
Nucor, North America’s largest recycler and producer of steel and steel products, and Helion Energy, a fusion company, announced plans to develop a 500-MW fusion power plant.
This magnetic field works double duty, keeping the unimaginably hot reaction from touching the inner walls of the fusion chamber. Less than a month has gone by since the Real Engineering YouTube ...
Fusion produces a huge surge of energy all at once and so far no one has been able to control and harness that. Helion thinks its simpler system will help, but has yet to prove it can do it ...
The company is developing a 40-foot plasma accelerator that heats fuel to 100 million degrees Celsius. It heats deuterium and helium-3 into a plasma and then uses pulsed magnetic fields to compress ...
A grim joke has taken hold in the field: Fusion is the energy of the future — and it always will be. Helion, and a handful of other companies, are hoping to shift that view by generating fusion ...
A grim joke has taken hold in the field: Fusion is the energy of the future — and it always will be. Helion, and a handful of other companies, are hoping to shift that view by generating fusion ...