The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has granted Stony Brook University three million four hundred thousand dollars. This is one of eleven nationwide projects seeking to increase the deployment of nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy and limit the amount of waste produced from Advanced Nuclear Reactors (AR).
First Light Fusion is a laboratory based in Oxford, UK that aims to create clean energy using fusion technology. They have just installed the U.K.’s biggest ‘Two-Stage Hyper-Velocity Gas Gun’ in their effort to develop a simpler, faster, and cheaper route to commercial fusion energy.