Two licenses and one massive milestone! Today Helion received two licenses from the Washington State Department of Health for our Orion facility in Malaga, WA, making us the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licenses needed for a fusion power plant.

Heute gab es den ganzen Tag über kein Geld für Strom am Markt. Im Gegenteil musste man zwischen 10h und 17h sogar draufzahlen, um seinen Müllstrom etwa ins Ausland entsorgen zu dürfen. Für fast alle Erzeuger kein Problem: Sie bekommen ihr Geld trotzdem. Dieser Spaß hat uns letztes Jahr 18,5 Milliarden Euro gekostet. Deutschland hat die dümmste Energiepolitik der Welt.

LightWave 3D, the multi-Emmy Award-winning 3D graphics software, entered a new chapter following its acquisition by LightWave Digital in April 2023. The latest release, LightWave 3D 2026, introduces nearly 30 new features, including: MotoRig – a comprehensive vehicle rigging and animation system IVY Generator - Ivy is a procedural vine growth plugin for LightWave 3D. It grows ivy meshes across the surface. Spider Web - It builds realistic cobweb and orb-weaver geometry that drapes between scene objects, sags under gravity. THOR – a powerful object replacement plugin for creating realistic procedural lightning effects Integrated 2D and 3D tracking tools Advanced Placement tools Snow and Rain systems RIPR2 - next-generation viewport rendering engine And many more enhancements, with additional features already in development. The Media Pack contains two booklets and the Brand Guidelines, including: • Media in the Industries – highlighting the major tools and features introduced over the past three years • LightWave 3D 2026 Features Guide – providing a detailed overview of the latest tools and functionality in the 2026 release Both publications include links to demonstrations, tutorials, and examples showcasing the capabilities of the new tools and workflows. Please Download the media pack here for reviews. drive.google.com/file/d/15K9…

Great new Helion video here: youtube.com/watch?v=HvBuqcg9…

Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun. Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology. Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier. With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.

Fusion scales through iteration. Subsystems let us test, refine, and optimize parts of the machine without disrupting core systems like Polaris, so we learn faster and only scale what works. That’s the Helion way! Execute rigorously, progress rapidly. helionenergy.com/blog/why-su…

Today, we closed our Series G at @Helion_Energy , raising $465M to build the industrial and manufacturing foundation needed to produce fusion generators at an assembly-line scale.

Congrats to @Helion_Energy

Meet Ezra, a Modeling & Simulation Engineer at Helion. Ezra builds electromagnetic models to help us understand how design choices impact magnetic fields and system performance.