In this special edition of Fusion News, Fusion Industry Association CEO Andrew Holland summarizes fusion's progress in 2024 and introduces some of the major headlines from the year. Links to news stories are included below. Wishing you and your loved ones a happy and healthy 2025!

1. Nuclear Startup Pacific Fusion Nabs $900 Million in Funding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-25/nuclear-startup-pacific-fusion-raises-900-million-in-funding

2. Thales and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics set a world record in the field of nuclear fusion

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/group/press_release/thales-and-max-planck-institute-plasma-physics-set-world-record-field

3. The nuclear fusion industry is having a growth spurt

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/nuclear-fusion-companies-funding

4. Record electron temperatures for a small-scale, sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion device achieved

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-electron-temperatures-small-scale-stabilized.html

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.155101

5. G7 Puts Fusion Forward at the Climate Energy and Environment Ministers Meeting

https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/g7-puts-fusion-forward-at-the-climate-energy-and-environment-ministers-meeting/

6. Helion secures license for Polaris fusion

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/helion-secures-licence-to-advance-polaris-fusion-facility/