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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Partner to Accelerate Fusion Energy Development

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

OXFORD, United Kingdom and CHALK RIVER, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), have signed a collaboration framework agreement to partner on the development of technologies in relation to the management of tritium, a fusion energy fuel.

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  • OXFORD, United Kingdom and CHALK RIVER, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), have signed a collaboration framework agreement to partner on the development of technologies in relation to the management of tritium, a fusion energy fuel.
  • The UK-Canada Memorandum of Understanding enhances collaboration on key focus areas, including research and development, regulatory harmonisation, and skills and workforce development.
  • Stephen Wheeler, UKAEA Executive Director, said: “Fusion energy promises to be a safe, low carbon and sustainable part of the world’s future energy supply.
  • Photos from a recent visit Canadian Nuclear Laboratories visit to UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus, in Oxfordshire, can be found here: https://ukaea.canto.global/b/JTQVC

Lemay and Fusion Énergie join forces to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

By combining their respective strengths, the two companies aim to accelerate the built environment's transition to carbon neutrality.

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  • By combining their respective strengths, the two companies aim to accelerate the built environment's transition to carbon neutrality.
  • Combining design with technological innovation enables us to accelerate our efforts to decarbonize built environments.
  • Lemay and Fusion's union represents a major step forward: The result is an integrated offering unique to its market, covering buildings' entire lifecycles from design to operation.
  • "We are proud of our long-time client Lemay that is joining forces with Fusion Energy to have an even greater positive impact.

Publications - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Joint Undertakings - Committee on Budgetary Control

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Reports in relation with the discharge to the Joint Undertakings

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  • Reports in relation with the discharge to the Joint Undertakings
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy (Fusion for Energy)
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking
    - Reports in relation with the discharge to the Single European Sky ATM Research 3 Joint Undertaking

General Robert 'Pat' White Joins the Kronos Fusion Energy's Team as Its New CEO and is Taking on Tritium Breeding

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Monday, February 13, 2023

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As his first order of business as the CEO of Kronos Fusion Energy, Pat is taking on building the Kronos Tritium Breeding program.

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  • ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As his first order of business as the CEO of Kronos Fusion Energy, Pat is taking on building the Kronos Tritium Breeding program.
  • "Tritium plays a huge role in fusion energy generators, is used in many applications within the military, and also has many medical benefits.
  • The use of Tritium will be an essential for the commercialization of Fusion Energy.
  • While current fission-driven plants address some of the world's energy needs, creating commercializable access to fusion energy is a better long-term solution.

Highlights - 2021 Discharge: Hearing with Joint Undertakings - Committee on Budgetary Control

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

2021 Discharge: Hearing with Joint Undertakings

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  • 2021 Discharge: Hearing with Joint Undertakings
    29-11-2022 - 12:19
    On 30 November 2022, in the framework of the 2021 discharge procedure, the Committee on Budgetary Control will hold a hearing with representatives of Joint Undertakings (F4E JU, EuroHPC and IHI), in the presence of reporting ECA Member Ildik Gll-Pelcz.
  • Members of CONT Committee will hold a hearing with the Director of the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy (F4E JU), as well as with the Executive Directors of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU).
  • - Rapporteur JUs: Joachim Stanisaw Brudziski (ECR) for CBE JU (before BBI) and Clean Aviation JU (before CLEAN SKY 2)
    - Rapporteur JUs: Ryszard Czarnecki (ECR) for KDT JU (before ECSEL), EuroHPC, F4E, Clean Hydrogen JU (before FCH 2), IHI JU (before IMI2), SESAR 3 JU (before SESAR), and EU-Rail JU (before S2R)
    - 2021 Joint Undertakings Discharge

Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated and Founder Priyanca Ford Announces Breakthrough in Clean Fusion Energy Solutions

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Los Angeles, California--(Newsfile Corp. - August 30, 2022) - Priyanca Ford, founder of Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated is all set to make the world a better place to live in with her company's innovative clean fusion energy solutions.

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  • Los Angeles, California--(Newsfile Corp. - August 30, 2022) - Priyanca Ford, founder of Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated is all set to make the world a better place to live in with her company's innovative clean fusion energy solutions.
  • Priyanca's company Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated has been developed by several Algorithms and Machine Learning Simulations, which will aid in the development of Fusion Energy Generators and several types of clean fusion energy products for the betterment of future generations.
  • Being a Harvard Business School graduate, Priyanca Ford aims to apply her knowledge through Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated which has the vision to commercialize and monetize fusion energy generators by 2032.
  • About Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated:
    Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated is rapidly iterating on its Machine Learning Algorithms and Simulations towards a roadmap to full commercialization + monetization of fusion energy generators by 2032.

General Fusion receives two funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its Magnetized Target Fusion technology

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program.

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  • OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program.
  • The awards will advance Magnetized Target Fusion technology for use in commercial fusion power plants through collaboration with the Savannah River National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • General Fusion is pleased to continue its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate our technology development with the complementary advanced capabilities of the U.S. national labs, said Greg Twinney, CEO, General Fusion.
  • We are completing an aggressive development plan to deliver economical carbon-free fusion energy with our proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion technology by the 2030s.

Navajo Nation Community Gains Energy Independence Through Solar + Storage from Sunnova and Generac

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Were honored that we were able to help create a first of its kind solar + storage system in the Navajo Nation that includes our service.

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  • Were honored that we were able to help create a first of its kind solar + storage system in the Navajo Nation that includes our service.
  • To bring this project to life, Sunnova worked with Fusion Power, a Sunnova Dealer, to design a top-of-the-line Sunnova SunSafe solar + storage system to meet the needs of the community.
  • Sunnova and Generac worked together to equip and fund the 18-kilowatt solar system and 36kWh PWRcell energy storage system.
  • Generac is proud to support the Navajo Nation and help ensure that the community has much-needed resiliency and power when the sun isnt shining, said Keith Marett, President, Clean Energy Commercial, Generac Power Systems.

Kronos Fusion Energy Encourages the U.S. Senate to Support the American COMPETES Act of 2022 Amendment to Increase Funding for Fusion Energy

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Monday, April 4, 2022

After recent breakthroughs in the fusion energy industry, Kronos Fusion Energy highly encourages the support of this act.

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  • After recent breakthroughs in the fusion energy industry, Kronos Fusion Energy highly encourages the support of this act.
  • Priyanca Ford, founder of Kronos Fusion Energy Inc, urged the U.S. Senate to consider fusion energy to be a bipartisan issue, "Fusion Energy is the cleanest and most efficient energy source in the universe that will lead mankind to a new golden age.
  • [Ford] urges the U.S. Senate to support the Fusion Energy Amendment and to pass the COMPETES Bill quickly, to help to jumpstart the American fusion energy industry's quest to become the global leader in jobs creation for fusion energy".
  • Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), the Chairman of the House Fusion Energy Caucus, Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA), the sponsor of the Fusion Amendment to the Energy Act of 2020 that created the fusion energy milestone program, and Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy in the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology sponsored the Fusion Energy Amendment that will help to foster the rapid growth of the United States fusion energy industry.

Kronos Fusion Energy Defense Systems Takes a Synchronized Approach to Commercialize Fusion Energy Generation

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Friday, March 18, 2022

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There is an urgency of now for fusion energy .Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the United States must maintain military and economic supremacy by investing in clean, limitless energy independence.This requires preparation for the near term, as well as looking over the horizon at technologies that will revolutionize our way of life.Fusion energy generation will be part of that revolution.Other nations are investing heavily in fusion energy research and development.China has invested over $1 trillion in their "Artificial Sun" fusion reactor.China has set records for maintaining the plasma inside a Tokamak Fusion Reactor for over 17 minutes.They also recorded the hottest temperature inside the plasma, reaching 158 million degrees Fahrenheit.A consortium of 35 Nations is investing in ITER, the self-proclaimed most ambitious fusion energy project in the world.ITER's goal is to get "Q10," energy output greater than 10 times energy input.The United States is falling behind.

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  • WASHINGTON, March 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There is an urgency of now for fusion energy .Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the United States must maintain military and economic supremacy by investing in clean, limitless energy independence.This requires preparation for the near term, as well as looking over the horizon at technologies that will revolutionize our way of life.Fusion energy generation will be part of that revolution.Other nations are investing heavily in fusion energy research and development.China has invested over $1 trillion in their "Artificial Sun" fusion reactor.China has set records for maintaining the plasma inside a Tokamak Fusion Reactor for over 17 minutes.They also recorded the hottest temperature inside the plasma, reaching 158 million degrees Fahrenheit.A consortium of 35 Nations is investing in ITER, the self-proclaimed most ambitious fusion energy project in the world.ITER's goal is to get "Q10," energy output greater than 10 times energy input.The United States is falling behind.
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  • Paul E. Owen adds, "Kronos is prepared to take the next step in bringing fusion energy generators into production.It's vital to our national security to build on recent advances that are bringing Fusion Energy to reality in our lifetime."
  • Kronos Fusion Energy Defense Systems (KFEDS) is taking a synchronized approach to commercialize fusion energy generation by bringing together the totality of research and engineering efforts across government agencies, academic institutions, and private industry.KFEDS algorithms and simulations take advantage of the quantum computing developments that will enable the optimization of energy output design prior to building a prototype.There are exceptional complexities of forces and fields inside the plasma of a fusion energy generator.Recent developments in material technology, quantum computing, machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence can be applied using KFEDS developed algorithms in simulations to greatly reduce the time need to get an optimized fusion energy generator prototype.The previous goal for fusion energy in the United States was broadly stated for 2050.KFEDS has a plan to create commercially viable prototypes by 2036,algorithms to simulation to commercialization.