Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it will build ARC, its first commercial fusion power plant, on a Dominion Energy-owned site in Chesterfield County, Virginia, targeting roughly 400MW of grid power in the early 2030s.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 18:01:16 UT on 2033-03-30, and the total phase lasts up to 2 minutes 37 seconds along a path 781.0 km wide crossing eastern Russia and Alaska. A partial eclipse is visible from North America.

The first operating segment, Merced to Bakersfield, of the only true high-speed rail project under construction in the United States. Estimated date.

Norway's Rogfast, a 27km twin-bore tunnel reaching 392m below the Boknafjord, will become the world's longest and deepest undersea road tunnel, replacing a ferry crossing on the E39 highway.

At 57.5 km, the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel will be the world's longest rail tunnel, carrying the new Lyon–Turin railway under the Alps between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France, and Susa, Italy.

The MTA is pushing ahead on a new light rail line linking Brooklyn and Queens via a freight corridor that has never had passenger subway service.

The 2034 Winter Olympics, officially the XXVII Olympic Winter Games, and branded as Utah 2034, is a future international multi-sport event scheduled to take place in the U.S. state of Utah from February 10 to 26, 2034. The pin sits at Rice–Eccles Stadium.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 10:17:25 UT on 2034-03-20, and the total phase lasts up to 4 minutes 9 seconds along a path 159.1 km wide crossing Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China. A partial eclipse is visible from Africa, Europe and western Asia.

A 505 km/h superconducting maglev intended to link Tokyo and Nagoya in 40 minutes, delayed by a water-diversion dispute in Shizuoka. Estimated date.

The world's largest tokamak, built by 35 nations in southern France, aims to show fusion can produce ten times the power it consumes. Estimated date.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 16:18:07 UT on 2034-09-12, and the annular phase lasts up to 2 minutes 58 seconds along a path 102.1 km wide crossing Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. A partial eclipse is visible from Central America and South America.

The first 2.4 km of a proposed 170 km linear city of mirrored walls, scaled back sharply from original announcements and on hold since September 2025, with further work pushed past 2030. Estimated date.

ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.

Greatest eclipse falls at 23:04:32 UT on 2035-03-09, where the annular phase lasts 48 seconds on a path 31.5 km wide; annularity is longest at the sunrise end of the track, where it runs 1 minute 26 seconds. The path of annularity crosses New Zealand and the Pacific, and a partial eclipse is visible from Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Mexico and Antarctica.

New rail tunnels under the Hudson plus rehabilitation of the 1910 North River Tunnels, the most critical bottleneck on the US Northeast Corridor. Estimated date.

Britain's second new-build nuclear station, a near-copy of Hinkley Point C intended to power six million homes. Estimated date.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 01:55:25 UT on 2035-09-02, and the total phase lasts up to 2 minutes 54 seconds along a path 116.3 km wide crossing China, Korea, Japan and the Pacific. A partial eclipse is visible from eastern Asia and the Pacific.

Heathrow Airport has set out a £49BN expansion plan, including a long-sought third runway and a new terminal complex, and has approved work on a planning application after decades of UK government indecision.

JR Central's Chuo Shinkansen maglev line, meant to cut Tokyo-Nagoya travel to around 40 minutes, has slipped from a planned 2027 opening to no earlier than 2035.