UK invests £2.5bn, Proxima raises $148m, and plasma code cracked

Update: 2025-06-25

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Dr. Cyd Cowley, working at the intersection of fusion and AI at FIA affiliate member digiLab, gives today's global fusion news update. Links to all of the stories mentioned are included below.

1. Major funding milestone for world-first protype fusion plant

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/25-billion-for-world-first-prototype-fusion-energy-plant

2. Europe's fastest-growing nuclear fusion company raises $148 million in record funding round https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/nuclear-fusion-proxima-raises-148-million-in-record-funding-round.html

3. Nuclear fusion's plasma code cracked by US researchers' elusive 'voids' breakthrough https://interestingengineering.com/energy/fusion-plasma-code-cracked-us-researchers

Bonus:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/concept-borrowed-from-video-games-leads-to-fusion-energy-breakthrough/1100-6531863/

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/06/20/nj-hax-plasma-forge-new-strategic-innovation-center-coming-princeton-area

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