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Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant
(www.helionenergy.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Their website is offline (must be getting hammed by traffic) but here's a Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/helion-energy-starts-construction-nuclear-fusion-plant-power-microsoft-data-2025-07-30/
Same. Have they even done any demos?
Per the Reuters article they already have a test reactor but, like everybody else, haven't figured out how to produce more electricity than it consumes. I'm not sure why they're jumping ahead to building a new facility when they don't yet have a working product, but I hope it isn't just to collect subsidies.
If it's like any other nuclear plant it could go on for decades with an ever-increasing budget and nobody would raise an eyebrow.