How to Build a Better Kind of Nuclear Power? This Side Hustle Might Help.

Zap Energy says its ultimate goal is safe, clean energy from fusion. To help get there, it’s starting to build fission ...

Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.
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Inside Zap Energy, the Bill Gates-backed company that wants to bring fusion power to the electrical grid

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zap Energy is a fusion startup hoping to launch a pilot fusion plant in the next few years. Its technology uses a Z-pinch device ...

Zap Energy’s nuclear double play: Fusion startup adds traditional fission to its lineup, in industry first

Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the ...
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Uncommon Thinkers: Zap’s Uri Shumlak wrestles with fusion energy in pursuit of carbon-free power

Editor’s note: This series profiles five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the ...
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Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy

EVERETT, Wash. — In a quiet room lined with giant computer monitors, a team of seven Zap Energy engineers prepares to generate super-heated plasmas in a demo fusion device. Like mission control at a ...
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Zap Energy achieves 37-million-degree temperatures in a compact device

In the nine decades since humans first produced fusion reactions, only a few fusion technologies have demonstrated the ability to make a thermal fusion plasma with electron temperatures hotter than 10 ...