Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Can we create and use star power - nuclear fusion - here on earth? Groups and businesses are working hard to realize the first generation of fusion power plants. With rapid advances in supermagnets, plasma containment, and simulation capabilities over the past few years, there is growing excitement around the world for the nascent fusion power industry.
Many, like our speaker David Cohen Tanugi, SM '12, PhD '15, are optimistic about the huge promise of steady-state and stable fusion energy operation. The pathway for fusion technology to be deployed in our future energy system must also overcome the practical challenges of supply chain and supportive materials and production R&D.
In this like wecast from October 20, 2025, speaker Francesco Sciortino, PhD '21, shares how the quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator technology is the basis for his startup, Proxima Fusion. Together with the company's public partners at the Max Planck Society, Proxima is leading European R&D on stellarators. The technology demonstrator of this magnet/plasma configuration is scheduled to become operational in 2031.
Can we create and use star power - nuclear fusion - here on earth? Groups and businesses are working hard to realize the first generation of fusion power plants. With rapid advances in supermagnets, plasma containment, and simulation capabilities over the past few years, there is growing excitement around the world for the nascent fusion power industry.
Many, like our speaker David Cohen Tanugi, SM '12, PhD '15, are optimistic about the huge promise of steady-state and stable fusion energy operation. The pathway for fusion technology to be deployed in our future energy system must also overcome the practical challenges of supply chain and supportive materials and production R&D.
In this like wecast from October 20, 2025, speaker Francesco Sciortino, PhD '21, shares how the quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator technology is the basis for his startup, Proxima Fusion. Together with the company's public partners at the Max Planck Society, Proxima is leading European R&D on stellarators. The technology demonstrator of this magnet/plasma configuration is scheduled to become operational in 2031.
