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ARPA-E has announced $32 Million in funding towards accelerating fusion energyRead more...

Read the recap of Vice Admiral Lee Gunn's, USN (Ret.) recent trip to New Mexico to discuss the national security threat of climate change.Read more...

The Department of Energy has announced the creation of a new “Innovation Network for Fusion Energy” (INFUSE) program as a way to promote collaboration between the public and private sectors.Read more...

The Fusion Industry Association, a new group representing the interests of the private fusion industry, announced the launch of its website (www.FusionIndustryAssociation.org) and the beginning of a campaign to grow support for fusion power. The association and its 16 member companies are working to transform the global energy system by putting fusion energy on the grid.Read more...

Fusion expert Steven Cowley was named the new director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) this May. On June 9, Cowley received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, and on June 21, two PPPL physicists received prestigious DOE Early Career Research Grants.Read more...

ASP's CEO sent a letter to the Senate in support of passage of H.R.589 and S.2503, the “Department of Energy Research and Innovation Act" because it would support aggressive action on fusion research. Read more...

A partnership between MIT and the private sector promises to develop fusion energy as an energy source within the next 15 years. Using a modular design and advanced magnets, the CFS-MIT team are working towards a fusion breakthrough.Read more...

ASP Adjunct Fellow Derek Sutherland writes how to arm yourself with the knowledge of the most important equation in fusion energy science, and know what parameters guide the design of fusion reactor systems.Read more...

From Climate Change to Russia, Cuba to Puerto Rico, North Korea to China, to Africa, to Fusion Energy, the topics ASP covered in 2017 were wide-ranging.Read more...