The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has released its 2026–2030 organisational strategy, setting out the national laboratory's role to deliver foundational research, technology and innovation in support of the UK fusion sector. UKAEA subsidiary UK Fusion Energy Ltd has also released its latest strategy, setting out how the UK will deliver its prototype fusion power plant, STEP Fusion.
 

The award to SHINE Chrysalis LLC, through the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Dominance Financing, is dependent on the company satisfying technical, legal, environmental, and financial conditions.
 

The ILIOS consortium has been appointed as the construction partner for the UK's STEP Fusion programme, while Kinectrics has been named as the design and fabrication partner for the UKAEA-Eni H3AT Tritium Loop Facility. The appointments came as the government published its Fusion Energy Strategy.
 

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics to construct the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant at the former Gundremmingen nuclear power plant site.
 

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.
 

How long should it take from signing a contract to first concrete, to completion, for a new nuclear power plant? And what needs to be done to ensure that funding is unlocked for new units? Those are just two of the topics covered by Assystem's Deputy CEO Stéphane Aubarbier.
 

The US Department of Energy and private Japanese fusion technology company Kyoto Fusioneering have established a landmark partnership to deliver critical fusion infrastructure and perform collaborative R&D to drive down technology and commercialisation risk.
 

US fusion energy developer Type One Energy has submitted the initial licensing application in preparation for the construction of a fusion power plant at Tennessee Valley Authority's former Bull Run fossil plant site in Clinton, Tennessee.
 

A drone mounted with cameras and sensors has been used for the first time to inspect the Joint European Torus former fusion research facility at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Campus, in Oxfordshire, UK.