Fusion News

FYI - Fusion News/Alerts 29 Oct 2025

Fusion Energy in 2025: Six Global Trends to Watch

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/fusion-energy-in-2025-six-global-trends-to-watch 

US ships first electron cyclotron transmission line components

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/us-ships-first-electron-cyclotron-transmission-line-components 

[Latest ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/whatsnew/474]

DOE details plans for fusion in first road map

https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-details-plans-for-fusion-in-first-road-map/ 

[Download the Blueprint] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/fusion-s%26t-roadmap-101625.pdf 

World’s largest superconducting fusion system will use American technology to measure the plasma within

https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/world%E2%80%99s-largest-superconducting-fusion-system-will-use-american-technology-measure-plasma 

Advanced control strategies for divertor power sharing and core density regulation in fusion energy devices

https://www.differ.nl/news/innovation-news-network-advanced%20control%20strategies 

Japan fusion energy start-up achieves a key milestone toward commercial reactor

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/japan-fusion-energy-start-up-achieves-key-milestone-toward-commercial-reactor-2025-10-27/ 

Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind

https://www.ans.org/news/article-7484/commonwealth-fusion-systems-partners-with-google-deepmind/ 

Why scientists are attempting nuclear fusion

https://theweek.com/science/why-scientists-are-attempting-nuclear-fusion 

Urea from the plasma fan

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-025-01441-3 

Permitting of US fusion power plant progresses

https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/permitting-of-us-fusion-power-plant-progresses 

Fusion Energy Group Hits Construction Milestone at Massachusetts Campus

https://www.powermag.com/fusion-energy-group-hits-construction-milestone-at-massachusetts-campus/ 

Multi-scale turbulence observations reveal new plasma confinement performance mechanism

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-multi-scale-turbulence-reveal-plasma.html 

Stephen C. Jardin Wins the 2025 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics for Innovative Research in Magnetic Fusion Energy

https://publishing.aip.org/about/news/stephen-c-jardin-wins-the-2025-ronald-c-davidson-award-for-plasma-physics-for-innovative-research-in-magnetic-fusion-energy/ 

With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus

https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-molecule-based-method-physicists-peer-inside-atoms-nucleus-1023 

Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow

https://www.ans.org/news/2025-10-27/article-7496/japan-gets-new-u-for-enrichment-as-global-power-and-fuel-plans-grow/ 

Global experts chart the future of nuclear power at U-M symposium

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2025/10/global-experts-chart-the-future-of-nuclear-power-at-u-m-symposium/ 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles of Interest

Ionization enhancement in radio-frequency plasma thrusters with applied static magnetic fields

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21566-6 

Gradient-based calibration of the anomalous electron scattering frequency in a Hall effect thruster simulation

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/article/138/16/163302/3368976/Gradient-based-calibration-of-the-anomalous 

An alternative derivation of parallel viscous coefficients in the banana regime for finite aspect ratio tokamaks 

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/32/10/104503/3369190/An-alternative-derivation-of-parallel-viscous 

[Of Interest]

AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03398-6 

AMD & The US Energy Department: Building AI Supercomputers

https://aimagazine.com/news/amd-the-us-energy-department-building-ai-supercomputers