• WE ARE PROMOTING A STRATEGY AND BUSINESS CASE

    for building a fusion energy plant in Canada

  • ENERGY FROM FUSION IS

    abundant, safe, reliable, lowest environmental impact, economical, a base-load energy source and an ideal complement to existing fossil fuel generation.

  • WE PROMOTE EXCELLENCE

    in commercialization engineering of Fusion Energy across Canada

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UNLIMITED ENERGY

“Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the Sun and the stars, is a source of safe, non-carbon emitting and virtually limitless energy…”
– ITER Organization

WHAT IS FUSION?

Fusion is the energy source of the Sun and stars. In the tremendous heat and gravity at the core of these stellar bodies, hydrogen nuclei collide, fuse into heavier helium atoms and release tremendous amounts of energy in the process.

Twentieth-century fusion science identified the most efficient fusion reaction in the laboratory setting to be the reaction between two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium (D) and tritium (T). The DT fusion reaction produces the highest energy gain at the “lowest” temperatures.

Three conditions must be fulfilled to achieve fusion in a laboratory: very high temperature (on the order of 150,000,000° Celsius); sufficient plasma particle density (to increase the likelihood that collisions do occur); and sufficient confinement time (to hold the plasma, which has a propensity to expand, within a defined volume).

At extreme temperatures, electrons are separated from nuclei and a gas becomes a plasma—often referred to as the fourth state of matter. Fusion plasmas provide the environment in which light elements can fuse and yield energy.

– ITER Organization