Helion

We’ve raised a $465 million Series G funding round at $15.5B post-money valuation to accelerate the commercial deployment of fusion.

Read more here: helionenergy.com/newsroom/helio…

POV: You’re walking through the world’s first fusion power plant.

@APSphysics Division of Plasma Physics here we come!

The Helion crew will be presenting talks and posters throughout the week. A preview of what's to come:

Eric Clark | Presentation 🖥️
Adaptive time-integration schemes that let us simulate the full FRC compression stroke over millions of steps while keeping energy conservation under control.

Prabhat Kumar | Presentation 🖥️
A novel energy-conserving implicit algorithm for hybrid PIC simulations that avoids numerical heating, built for trustworthy long-timescale modeling of FRC formation, merging, and compression.

William White | Presentation 🖥️
3D simulations of two FRCs colliding and merging, revealing instabilities that 2D models miss.

Ria Meston | Poster 🪧
Plasma-material interaction in irradiation-damaged silicon carbide, informing design limits for the electrically insulating materials that make direct energy recapture possible.

Colin Swee | Poster 🪧
Modeling how silicon impurities change X-ray emission, so we can measure electron temperature on our machines reliably and on fast timescales.

If you're at APS DPP, come find us!

Helion has been recommended for @ENERGY INFUSE funding, in partnership with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's FLARE facility, to study reconnection physics in field-reversed configurations.

This work will improve our understanding of plasma transport and strengthen the predictive models used to design future fusion systems.

Full announcement: energy.gov/science/articl…

How do semiconductors power fusion? Director of Engineering Manav Singh explains how Helion is reengineering SCRs (thyristors) to shape, compress, and recover energy from fusion plasmas.