Hacker News with Generative AI: Fusion Energy

U.S. Finds China Building Giant Fusion Laser During Aerial Survey (wecb.fm)
In a development that has raised eyebrows worldwide, recent satellite images have revealed that China is constructing a massive fusion laser complex that could potentially surpass America’s National Ignition Facility (NIF). This new infrastructure, located in Mianyang, China, has sparked concerns about its dual-purpose potential—could it be aimed at providing clean energy, or does it also signal advancements in nuclear weapons technology? The U.S. is closely monitoring this project, which could have far-reaching implications for both energy and national security.
General Fusions Achieves First Plasma (generalfusion.com)
RICHMOND, British Columbia (March 11, 2025): General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration, Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), has successfully formed a magnetized plasma in the machine’s target chamber—a significant achievement in the operation of this world-first machine.
France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes (newatlas.com)
France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record.
China's artificial sun burns for 1000 secs, creates record in fusion research (hindustantimes.com)
China’s artificial sun, known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), burned for over 1000 seconds, creating a new record for the scientist working on the project.
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run (theregister.com)
China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory will produce vast amounts of energy at little cost.
Fusion power is getting closer (economist.com)
Two developments in the coming year will mark a decisive shift from the public to the private sector in the decades-old quest to generate cheap and abundant power from nuclear fusion.
AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation (control.princeton.edu)
A non-linear complex system governed by multi-spatial and multi-temporal physics scales cannot be fully understood with a single diagnostic, because each diagnostic provides only a partial view and much information is lost while extracting physical quantities from its raw measurements.
New, unique fusion reactor comes together due to global research collaboration (phys.org)
Like atoms coming together to release their power, fusion researchers worldwide are joining forces to solve the world's energy crisis.
ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034 (arstechnica.com)
ITER fusion energy project marks completion of its most complex magnet system (phys.org)
HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma (energysingularity.cn)
TORAX is a differentiable tokamak core transport simulator (github.com/google-deepmind)
Zap Energy achieves 37M-degree temperatures in a compact fusion device (zapenergy.com)