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US fusion energy developer Type One ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has signed a cooperative agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to jointly develop plans for a potential fusion power plant project in the Tennessee Valley region using Type One ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's stellarator fusion power technology.

The SMART tokamak - an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory of the University of Seville, Spain - has generated its first plasma.

Specialists at JSC NIIEFA and MISIS have developed a composite of tungsten and copper, using additive technologies, for the plasma-facing elements of the tokamak divertor of Russia's prototype TRT tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

A gyrotron built by Japan's Kyoto Fusioneering has been delivered to Tokamak ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß in the UK and is due to be installed on the ST40 spherical tokamak this year - it is expected to play a key role in informing fusion pilot plant designs.

The UK Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Authority's LIBRTI programme has announced a series of significant steps to advance fusion energy development. In addition to ordering a neutron source, it has also announced funding for 12 small-scale tritium breeding and digital simulation experiments.

The UK government has announced a GBP410 million (USD500 million) investment to accelerate development of fusion energy. The announcement came as five construction and engineering consortiums have been shortlisted to build the country's STEP prototype fusion plant.

The NEURONE Consortium - a UK Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Authority working group - has demonstrated the industrial scale production of fusion-grade steel. This achievement, it says, has the potential to reduce production costs by an order of magnitude and improve the efficiency of future fusion power plants.

US private fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced plans to independently finance, construct, own and operate a commercial-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Two British public sector entities - the UK Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Authority and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Hartree Centre - have teamed up with US-headquartered technology firm IBM to design future experimental fusion power plants.

The preliminary design of Russia's proposed TRT tokamak nuclear fusion reactor has been completed by JSC NIIEFA.

The energy departments of the US and UK governments are to partner with Tokamak ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß for a USD52 million upgrade of the ST40 fusion facility, which will coat its inner wall with lithium.

The fourth and final ITER vacuum vessel sector manufactured by South Korea has been delivered to the construction site of the tokamak fusion device in Cadarache, southern France.