The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades
Sabine Hossenfelder
Aug 23, 2026 15:00
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A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed. It’s the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades. Let's take a look.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2026.115864
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