In the last five years there have been significant breakthroughs in public fusion research, with new records across a variety of different fusion technologies, including tokamaks, stellarators and inertial confinement machines. This had led to a resurgence in interest of fusion energy, with significant investments in the public fusion sector and a substantial increase in private fusion companies around the world. Many private companies are developing different technologies, with the aim of near-term deployment of fusion energy.
In 2024, the IAEA published Fusion Key Elements, this highlighted that there are still key remaining challenges in fusion energy that will need to be solved before commercial deployment. In this webinar series, the Nuclear Energy Fusion team aims to show key enabling technologies which are in development, the IAEA Fusion CONNECT platform which will facilitate awareness of fusion energy to all IAEA member states and additional activities in NE which address the Fusion Key Elements.
IAEA-FIA Webinar on Fusion Technologies and Fuel Cycles Database
14 August 2025 | This webinar, co-hosted by the Fusion Industry Association (FIA), is to provide templates (an organisation template and a machine template) which were developed during a meeting in April with a small group of fusion experts from various organisations.
Launch of the Fusion CONNECT Platform: FUSE
4 December 2025 | The aim of this webinar is to publically the launch of the FUSE platform. FUSE will continue to release new modules over the coming years, with initial modules, such as the fusion technology module which includes a collection of fusion organisations and the fusion machines they have in development, a breakdown of different types of fusion machines (e.g. tokamak, stellarator etc) and breakdown of the main systems needed for a fusion machine.
Global Approaches to Tritium Breeding for Fusion: Materials, Challenges, and Pathways
11 December 2025 | One of the key challenges that will need to be overcome for commercial fusion power plants (FPP) is tritium self-sufficiency. This webinar aims to explain the basics of tritium breeding blankets and then cover some of the key concepts which are being developed internationally.