FEI Monthly Round-up – June 2026
Welcome to our round-up of what’s been happening in fusion and within Fusion Energy Insights over the past month.
3 Top Fusion News Stories
General Fusion signs Italian deployment agreement and reports LM26 heating progress
General Fusion has signed a framework agreement with Renexia, a renewable energy company that is part of Italy's Toto Group, to collaborate on the commercial deployment of its Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) technology in Italy. The milestone-based agreement covers potential siting, development, funding, construction and commissioning of one or more fusion power plants, with the first phase focused on site evaluation and selection. Separately, General Fusion has released a paper describing compressional plasma heating results from its Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), including about 8.4m degrees Celsius, or 0.72 kilo electron volts (keV), electron temperature during plasma compression using a lithium liner.
UK-Japan fusion collaboration explores domestic UK high temperature superconductor production
Tokamak Energy and Japan's Furukawa Electric have announced a new phase of collaboration to explore how high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape capability could be developed in the UK. The companies will begin work on HTS tape research and manufacturing feasibility studies, supporting future demand from programmes including STEP and wider fusion industry growth.
Alongside this announcement, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to deepen collaboration across fusion research, engineering, skills development and commercial deployment. Areas of cooperation include breeding blanket systems, tritium technologies, robotics, regulation and fusion power plant engineering.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems publishes five peer-reviewed papers validating ARC power plant physics
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has published five peer-reviewed papers in a special issue of the Journal of Plasma Physics examining the physics basis of its ARC power plant. The studies build on lessons from the design and construction of SPARC and assess key areas including plasma performance, disruptions, magnetohydrodynamics and heat exhaust.
The analysis concludes that ARC could continuously deliver 400 MW of net electricity using established physics and advanced modelling tools. The work was carried out by 58 scientists from a variety of institutions around the world, including MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
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Recovering Spent Nuclear Fuel Materials: Where The Value Really Is
This was our industry analysis “Graph of the Month” piece this time.
Every month, our industry experts at Fusion Advisory Services pick an interesting graph from the work that has been going on at FAS—something that gives some insight into significant trends, commercialisation considerations or fusion industry development.
This month, we analysed a selection of the recoverable materials found in spent nuclear fission fuel, on a $/kg basis to see which materials are the most strategically valuable.
This analysis ranks the materials by commercial and strategic viability, not just the headline price. Therefore, this ranking enables us to truly see the comparative value in the materials within spent fuel.
FEI Premium subscribers can read the full article.
Fusion Energy Insights Quarterly
We released our June 2026 issue of the Fusion Energy Insights Quarterly magazine to our FEI Premium subscribers.
The Fusion Energy Insights Quarterly provides a thorough and evolving overview of the industry. It is compiled with contributions from industry experts around the world, efficiently bringing together the progress of the past quarter into an easy reference point and giving insights and perspectives from fusion developers, suppliers, finance, law and others around the industry.
This issue features:
News Update
Global Update
USA
Canada
UK
Europe
Japan
Korea
India
Legal & Policy Update
Investment Update
Science Update
ITER Update
Focus On: The Middle East
Inside View: New Mexico Innovation Hub
5 Questions With… Realta Fusion
FEI Activities
Community News & Progress
New Industry Players
Upcoming External Events
Fusion Advisory Services Insight to Strategy
In this issue’s 5 Questions with…Realta Fusion, Kieran Furlong shares details about the magnetic mirror concept, their focus on plasma performance, and an insight into their financial structure.
In the Inside View feature, we spoke to David Perez, the founder of the New Mexico Innovation Hub, about why deliberate public-private coordination is how fusion supply chain clusters get built.
Thank you to our expert contributors:
Zihan Lin, PhD student at MIT – News Update
Sara Hock, intern at Fusion Advisory Services – News Update
Axel Meisen, President, Fusion Energy Council Canada – Global Update
Michael Zdanowski, Chair, Fusion Industry Taskforce – Global Update
Jack Moore, Fusion Energy Policy Consultant – Global Update
Dr Nitendra Singh, President, IYNS India – Global Update
Kohei Yamamoto, Public Affairs, Kyoto Fusioneering – Global Update
Jinwu Kim, CFO, Enable Fusion – Global Update
Ryan Oatley, Analyst, Fusion Advisory Services – Global Update
John Cooper, Analyst, Fusion Advisory Services – Global Update
Naomi Mburu, Lead Analyst at Fusion Advisory Services – Legal & Policy Update
Sidney Fowler, Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, DC) – Legal & Policy Update
Clarence Tolliver, Associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, DC) – Legal & Policy Update
Hugo Bullows-Weeks, intern at Fusion Advisory Services – Investment Update
Dr Cyd Cowley, Fusion Engineer at DigiLab – Science Update
Laban Coblentz, Chief Strategic Adviser at ITER – ITER Update
Abdus Saboor Shaik, researcher at Imperial College London – Focus On
Akasha Kabboul, PhD student at American University of Beirut – Focus On
Ghassan Antar, Professor at Americam University of Beirut – Focus On
David Perez, founder of the New Mexico Innovation Hub – Inside View
Kieran Furlong, CEO Realta Fusion – 5 Questions With
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Past Online Events
1stJune: Quarterly Briefing with the EFA on EU Activity in fusion
20thMay: Legal & Policy Briefing with Sidney Fowler, Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Looking Forward
1stJuly: Spark Sessions with Valerie Jamieson. This session will explore Valerie’s perspective on fusion, drawing on experiences studying particle physics, to journalism and her role today in connecting the supply chain to fusion energy in the UK.
