** HIF-2010 Symposium in Darmstadt, Germany. Robert J Burke presented on Single Pass (Heavy Ion Fusion) HIF and Charles Helsley made a presentation on the commercialization of HIF within the decade.
** May 23–26, Workshop for Accelerators for Heavy Ion Fusion at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, presentation by Robert J. Burke on "Single Pass Heavy Ion Fusion". The Accelerator Working Group publishes recommendations supporting moving RF accelerator driven HIF toward commercialization.
** Stephen Slutz & Roger Vesey of Sandia National Labs publish a paper in Physical Review Letters presenting a computer simulation of the MagLIF concept showing it can produce high gain. According to the simulation, a 70 Mega Amp Z-pinch facility in combination with a Laser may be able to produce a spectacular energy return of 1000 times the expended energy. A 60 MA facility would produce a 100x yield.
** JET announces a major breakthrough in controlling instabilities in a fusion plasma. [http://phys.org/news/2012-01-closer-nuclear-fusion.html?=y One step closer to controlling nuclear fusion]
** In August Robert J. Burke presents updates to the SPRFD HIF process and Charles Helsley presents the Economics of SPRFD at the 19th International HIF Symposium at Berkeley, California. Industry was there in support of ion generation for SPRFD. The Fusion Power Corporation SPRFD patent is granted in Russia.
** China's EAST tokamak test reactor achieves a record confinement time of 30 seconds for plasma in the high-confinement mode (H-mode), thanks to improvements in heat dispersal from tokamak walls. This is an improvement of an order of magnitude with respect to state-of-the-art reactors.
** Construction of JT-60SA begins in January.
** US Scientists at NIF successfully generate more energy from fusion reactions than the energy absorbed by the nuclear fuel.
** Phoenix Nuclear Labs announces the sale of a high-yield neutron generator that could sustain 5×10 deuterium fusion reactions per second over a 24-hour period.
** On 9 October 2014, fusion research bodies from European Union member states and Switzerland signed an agreement to cement European collaboration on fusion research and EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, was born.
** Germany conducts the first plasma discharge in Wendelstein 7-X, a large-scale stellarator capable of steady-state plasma confinement under fusion conditions.
** In January the polywell is presented at Microsoft Research.
** In August, MIT announces the ARC fusion reactor, a compact tokamak using rare-earth barium-copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes to produce high-magnetic field coils that it claims produce comparable magnetic field strength in a smaller configuration than other designs.
** The Wendelstein 7-X produces the device's first hydrogen plasma.
** China's EAST tokamak test reactor achieves a stable 101.2-second steady-state high confinement plasma, setting a world record in long-pulse H-mode operation on the night of July 3.
** Helion Energy's fifth-generation plasma machine goes into operation, seeking to achieve plasma density of 20 Tesla and fusion temperatures.
** UK company Tokamak Energy's ST40 fusion reactor generates first plasma.
** TAE Technologies announces that the Norman reactor had achieved plasma.
** Energy corporation Eni announces a $50 million investment in start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems, to commercialize ARC technology via the SPARC test reactor in collaboration with MIT.
** MIT scientists formulate a theoretical means to remove the excess heat from compact nuclear fusion reactors via larger and longer divertors.
** General Fusion begins developing a 70% scale demo system to be completed around 2023.
** TAE Technologies announces its reactor has reached a high temperature of nearly 20 million°C.
** The Fusion Industry Association founded as an initiative in 2018, is the unified voice of the fusion industry, working to transform the energy system with commercially viable fusion power.
** The United Kingdom announces a planned £200-million (US$248-million) investment to produce a design for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) fusion facility around 2040.