Wal van Lierop

📣New announcement! This peer-reviewed publication in Fusion Science & Technology dives into how we measure ion temperatures inside LM26—one of the most important indicators of plasma performance. With 20+ years of experience developing diagnostics for our Magnetized Target Fusion, this publication demonstrates our measurement of ion temperature from neutron counting—just one of the many diagnostic tools that will validate plasma performance in LM26 as we move toward 1 keV and beyond. Read more: generalfusion.com/post/new-peer-…

Join me at “Fusion Festˮ taking place on April 14th 2026, organised by Economist Impact: Igniting a new era of power and progress.

General Fusion has reached an exciting new milestone on our path to becoming a public company! We’ve publicly filed our Form F-4 with the SEC as part of our proposed business combination with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III (NASDAQ: SVAC), bringing us one step closer to becoming the first publicly traded pure‑play fusion energy company. “We believe fusion is at an inflection point, and so is General Fusion. Our announcement today represents a key milestone toward closing the proposed business combination between General Fusion and SVAC—a transaction that we expect to put us on the best path to delivering commercial fusion energy in the next decade,” said General Fusion CEO Greg Twinney. Read the full announcement: generalfusion.com/post/general-f…

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Gyrokinetics plays a critical role in optimizing plasma performance. Our latest peer-reviewed paper, published in Nuclear Fusion, highlights the exceptional work of our team in collaboration with @GeneralAtomics: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Read the open-access paper and see below an example of our team's advanced simulation work illustrating the plasma behaviour shown in this research. #fusionenergy

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The team behind the progress! 🏆 Operating a fusion machine takes deep experience, precision, and tenacity. Our incredible team of physicists, engineers, & technicians are doing ground-breaking work every day to drive us toward a more sustainable future powered by #fusionenergy.

“If General Fusion can succeed, the future of energy won’t just be clean and abundant. It will be Canadian.” We’re honoured to be recognized as one of Canada’s most ambitious companies & featured as a World Saver in @BetaKit's special issue out this week. 🇨🇦

After just four months of operation, LM26 is consistently creating high-quality plasmas with the lifetimes we need to achieve our next milestone: 1 keV.

@GeneralFusion Impressive progress. That’s the General Fusion way. No hype, but results. Already >50 years ago the US Naval Research Institute concluded that magnetized target fusion would provide the clearest path to commercial fusion energy. Step by step General Fusion is proving that.

Take a look 👀 The new lithium liner for LM26 is installed in the machine, and final preparations are underway for our next plasma compression shot. Stay tuned!

@GeneralFusion @CBCNews @JWagstaffe General Fusion can help Canada become the energy superpower of the future!

Can Canada win the fusion race? @CBCNews reporter @JWagstaffe visited our labs to see our LM26 fusion machine operating at our Richmond facility. We're proud to be a leading #fusionenergy company with 20+ years of tech development here in Canada! Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=rluZqo…

@GeneralFusion General Fusion is paving the way to an exciting future, yet the BC government, which stands to benefit most, doesn’t seem to understand its value!

We are at a crossroads. We stand as a #fusionenergy leader on the cusp of our most exciting milestone yet—and one of the most challenging financial moments in our history. We need bold new investors. Please read an open letter from our CEO Greg Twinney: generalfusion.com/post/open-lett…

@GeneralFusion Fantastic progress. Congrats!

With our LM26 casting operations in full swing, our team is busy testing each process for creating the liners before installing the first one in our fusion demonstration machine. Stay tuned!

LM26 is now forming plasmas, and we're fast preparing for the next major step: compressing plasmas with a lithium liner to create fusion and heating! A unique element of our fusion demonstration program is our liner casting operations: