How AI will help get fusion from lab to grid by the 2030s
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a leading large private fusion company paving the way for clean, abundant fusion energy to drive the energy transition. The company’s marquee fusion project, SPARC, will generate net energy, paving the way for limitless carbon-free energy. The company has raised more than $2 billion in capital since it was founded in 2018.
Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun and stars, promises inexhaustible, emission-free power for the energy transition. Globally, both government labs and private-sector companies are racing to generate power from fusion, but despite growing momentum, progress has remained slow.
AI is accelerating breakthroughs in fusion energy, helping tackle challenges in plasma physics and bringing zero-carbon power closer to commercial reality.
Here too, fusion can supply the solution, potentially allowing for a vast reduction in the land-use footprint of agriculture and shortening the supply chain for fruits and vegetables by growing them in indoor farms much closer to urban centres, if not within city limits.
Fusion is the future of the global energy sector and the first fusion power plant is due to begin operations imminently. The world’s first commercial fusion power plant should break ground in the next few years. The global race for commercial fusion is on while the fusion-powered future is just beginning.
Fusion energy can provide the large amounts of reliable, emissions-free power that advanced AI systems require. In turn, AI can accelerate the design, operation and commercialization of fusion itself.
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Kim Budil oversaw the recent fusion breakthrough in the pursuit of clean, abundant energy at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She told the Forum what happens next.
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Nuclear fusion could transform the world's energy system, our lives and our homes. The latest breakthrough announced by the US Department of Energy gives new momentum.
The stellarator could see a comeback in fusion energy research, after years of tokamak focus, which could mean fusion electricity on the grid in the 2030s.
Advanced nuclear technologies range from fusion and small modular reactors (SMRs) to nuclear fuels and waste management, and they can help address some of the concerns around safety and cost. While nuclear fusion is often dubbed as the holy grail of energy, it is also in the early stages of realization.
A nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea has set a new record, superheating a plasma loop to 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds. The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) announced in a statement that the Korea Superconducting Tomak Advanced Research (KSTAR) reactor had broken its previous record of 31 seconds, Euronews reports.
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