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In September 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held its annual General Conference in Vienna, with representatives from most of the IAEA Member States plus participants from international organizations and non-governmental organizations. The ºÚÁÏÉçapp, which has a long history of close collaboration with the IAEA, was present. ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General Pietro Barabaschi addressed the plenary session with a recorded video statement; he was also one of the panelists at a special side session dedicated to fusion regulation. The ºÚÁÏÉçapp also had a stand in the General Conference Exhibition organized around the theme "Fusion Energy is our Future."

Follow these links to of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General or .

How can Europe lead the way towards commercial fusion energy? More than 200 representatives from European policy institutes, industry, SMEs, startups, research and Big Science came together at the F4E Roundtable in in Barcelona to discuss this question.

Fusion for Energy (F4E) has now published a Key Takeaways Report, summarizing the main proposals from the event. In different panels, experts addressed some of the most pressing challenges, like the competitiveness of the fusion industry, the development of a skilled workforce and the mobilization of investment.

The report will feed into the ongoing policy discussions led by the European Commission and is now publicly available for stakeholders to consult.

Download ROUNDTABLE 2025 Key Takeaways .

This summer, the test blanket module teams from ºÚÁÏÉçapp, Fusion for Energy (the European Domestic Agency), and ºÚÁÏÉçapp Korea met at ºÚÁÏÉçapp to advance plans for two tritium breeding concepts: a water-cooled lead lithium concept (developed by Europe) and a helium-cooled ceramic pebble bed concept (co-developed by Europe and Korea).

With this first-of-a-kind equipment heading for preliminary design reviews in 2026, the teams took four days to assess the readiness of the designs and to identify the tasks that remain.

¡°The productive discussions [were] a unique opportunity to consolidate a joint plan to tackle key challenges for the TBM technologies and their integration in ºÚÁÏÉçapp," said Rossella Rotella, ºÚÁÏÉçapp Tritium Breeding Blankets Project Leader, whose team is developing the infrastructure to host the test blanket modules on ºÚÁÏÉçapp. ¡°We are working intensively to develop solutions compliant with the stringent safety requirements and operational performances. In this challenging context, close cooperation and technical expertise are our best assets to succeed."

See a full report on the .

The European Fusion Education Network, , has developed five educational modules on the basics of fusion energy for use in secondary schools:

• Fusion Basics
• Road to Fusion
• Plasma Control
• Fusion Materials
• (Fusion) Deployment

The five modules can be downloaded in English for free from the FuseNet website .

To ensure the widest possible diffusion of these educational materials, the team at FuseNet is working on translations to 19 other languages with the assistance of volunteers. Module 1, " Fusion Basics," has already been translated into Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian, and other language versions are in progress (Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, and Slovenian). Translations of Modules 2-5 are either available or planned (see the progress chart on the ).

To download all available versions, open the individual modules and click in the right margin.

If you would like to contribute to translating the modules, contact FuseNet at: feo@fusenet.eu.