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UK's Newest Fusion Reactor Just Generated Its First Plasma
The United Kingdom switched on its newest fusion reactor last week, and the ST40 has already hit a milestone -- plasma within its core. The reactor, created by Tokamak Energy, should heat plasma to 100 million degrees Celsius (or 180 million degrees Fahrenheit)0.68Rosatom Delivers ITER's Last Poloidal Field Coil to the Cadarache Site
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoWorld Nuclear News[3] reported the Russian-built ITER[2] poloidal field coil arrived at the port of Fos-sur-Mer on 10 February 2023.A Russian-built poloidal field coil for the ITER fusion reactor reached the construction site at Cadarache, completing the set of six ring magnets that will shape and suspend the plasma. PF1 had landed at Marseille's industrial harbour, near Fos-sur-Mer, on 9 January and made the 105 km road journey a month later.0.65ITER Fusion Reactor Delayed to 2034
DELAYED14 years late43% CONFIDENCEin 8.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source[1]: ITER "will start scientific operation in 2034," after the original plan "envisaged first plasma as early as 2025."ITER, the largest and most powerful nuclear fusion reactor ever attempted, built in southern France by 35 partner nations, has pushed its first scientific operations back to 2034 after years of delays.0.65ITER Starts Research Operations
ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 8.3 yearsITER's[1] updated 2024 baseline gives 2034 for the start of research activities. Only the year is stated, so the pin takes its last day.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.0.64Hinkley Point C Unit 1 Now Targeted for 2030
DELAYED5 years late62% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the first 1.6 GW unit of its Hinkley Point C nuclear project in the UK is scheduled to start producing electricity in 2030".EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.£35B0.64Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Begins
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 4.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…unting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.…"A neutrino beam fired 1,300 km from Fermilab to detectors a mile underground in South Dakota, hunting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.$5B0.64TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Starts Production
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC's[1][6] founding release gives a bound, not a day: "production targeted to begin by the end of 2027"; at the September 2026 topping-out the partners still said production starts in 2027 and Hardwareluxx[3] reported tool installation "bis Ende 2027", after which the first chips follow - so 31 December 2027, estimated.ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.€10B0.63Westinghouse announces a new small nuclear reactor — a notable step in the industry's efforts to remake itself
ESTIMATED78% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…0 homes. </p><p class="paragraph"> It’s expected to cost about $1 billion to set up each plant, a sm…"Westinghouse announced the launch of a small version of its flagship AP1000 nuclear reactor on Thursday.
The new reactor, called the AP300, aims to be available in 2027, and will generate about a third of the power as the flagship AP1000 reactor, enough to power about 300,000 homes.
It’s expected to cost about $1 billion to set up each plant, a small fraction of the expense of the full AP1000.
$1T0.63The Curies Announce the Discovery of Radium
Institut de France, Rue de Seine, Quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th Arrondissement, Paris, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, 75006, FranceFrench Academy of Sciences
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE127.7 years agoWikipedia's[2] Radium article dates both steps: "Radium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie on 21 December 1898 in a uraninite (pitchblende) sample from Jachymov" and "The Curies announced their discovery to the French Academy of Sciences on 26 December 1898". The pin is the announcement, the public event of the two.Marie and Pierre Curie announce radium to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, five days after isolating it from pitchblende ore mined at Jachymov. It is the second element they identify that year, after polonium.0.63Texas Instruments Starts Production at Its Sherman SM1 Fab
Texas Instruments Sherman site, US-75 at Shepherd Road, Sherman, TX 75090, United StatesTexas Instruments…
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE280 days agoTI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".[1]TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.0.63ITER First Plasma
ESTIMATED52% CONFIDENCEin 7.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…roduce ten times the power it consumes. 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.€22B0.62Extremely Large Telescope Targets 2029 First Light
DELAYED4.5 years late56% CONFIDENCEin 2.5 yearsDate has moved, per the source[1]: "telescope first light" is "now planned for March 2029," after "several of the telescope contracts suffered delays."The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope, being built atop a Chilean mountain by 16 partner nations, is now targeting first light in March 2029 after repeated delays.€1B0.62
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