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Upgraded UC San Diego Facility Accelerates Efforts to Develop Materials for Fusion Reactor Walls
November 12, 2025

A newly upgraded fusion research facility at UC San Diego is expected to reduce the time and cost re...

California’s fusion energy industry could bring $125B, 40K jobs to the state
October 20, 2025

The fusion energy industry in California has the potential to support more than 40,000 jobs and brin...

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UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform
September 16, 2025

Sientists at General Atomics (GA) are leading a new multi-institution initiative to create a standar...

Researchers Identify Weak Points in Diamond Fusion Fuel Capsules
August 20, 2025

Scientists have uncovered how diamond — the material used to encase fuel for fusion exper...

General Atomics-sponsored senior project advances fusion target autoloader systems
July 30, 2025

A team of undergraduate mechanical engineering students at UC San Diego developed a prototype of a f...

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UC San Diego Engineering Dean Emeritus Receives NSF Honor
July 9, 2025

Robert “Bob” Conn, dean emeritus of the University of California San Diego Jacobs School...

 

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