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July 2026 brought one of the strongest mainstream research signals in recent memory, with a new Nature Communications paper reporting enhanced deuterium fusion in palladium and titanium hydrides at sub-keV energies. Commercial activity also continued around Aureon Energy, ENG8, Astral Systems, New Hydrogen Fusion Energy, and Brilliant Light Power.
LENR Commercial News:
1.) Aureon Energy / SAFIRE shares new updates
Aureon Energy continued to attract community interest in July, including a behind-the-scenes video circulated through LENR Forum via Vimeo.
Sources:
Aureon Energy
Aureon Technology
SAFIRE Project
Vimeo video
LENR Forum SAFIRE / Aureon thread
2.) Astral Systems wins at The SPARKies 2026
Astral Systems was listed as winner of “Engineering Product / Business of the Year” and “Most Exciting Investment Deal” at The SPARKies 2026. Astral remains important to the wider LCF / solid-state fusion discussion because of its lattice-confinement-fusion-related isotope production work.
Sources:
techSPARK / SPARKies Awards
techSPARK LinkedIn winners post
Astral Systems LinkedIn
NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion
NASA NTRS: LCF Technology Utilized by Astral Systems
3.) ENG8 moves the EnergiCell toward industrial heat
ENG8 reported several July developments around the EnergiCell, including a proposed Portuguese ceramics application, transport and distribution concepts, and coverage from New Fire Energy on ENG8’s move toward industrial pilots.
Sources:
ENG8 News
Taking the gas out of the kiln: the EnergiCell comes to Portuguese ceramics
From the kiln to the forecourt: extending the EnergiCell into transport
ENG8 moves toward the factory floor — New Fire Energy
LENR Forum ENG8 thread
4.) New Hydrogen Fusion Energy continues public outreach
New Hydrogen Fusion Energy updated its public-facing material in July. The company describes a hydrogen nuclear fusion process operating below 1,000°C and says helium-3 production has been measured by nuclear reaction analysis.
Sources:
New Hydrogen Fusion Energy
NHFE Services / Technology page
NHFE Japanese website
LENR Forum NHFE updates
5.) Brilliant Light Power posts SunCell commercial-upgrade test
Brilliant Light Power posted a July 1 SunCell update describing a commercial-upgrade test and reporting 85 kW optical power under partial injector operation. As always, independent validation remains the key question.
Sources:
Brilliant Light Power News Posts
Brilliant Light Power News
Brilliant Light Power homepage
Papers:
1.) Enhanced nuclear fusion in the sub-keV energy regime
Micah E. Karahadian, Matthew Colborne, Arun Persaud, Thomas Schenkel, and Jeremy N. Munday published a new Nature Communications paper reporting enhanced D–D fusion yields in palladium and titanium hydrides below 2 keV.
This is not a practical power claim, but it is highly relevant to LENR / CMNS because it shows that solid materials can strongly influence low-energy nuclear reaction yields.
Sources:
Nature Communications paper
UC Davis: When it comes to fusion, materials matter
EurekAlert coverage
Phys.org coverage
2.) Mass Production and Application of 17O-Enriched Water Using LENR
A July 2 preprint reports 17O-enriched water production using claimed LENR processes, with analytical checks using mass spectrometry, NMR, and cavity ring-down spectroscopy. This is a major claim and should be followed carefully for independent replication.
Sources:
Preprints.org article page
PDF download
LENR Forum discussion: Cavitation reactor from B-J. Huang et al.
3.) Pre-Thermal Mechanical Energy Channel in CMNS
Joseph George posted a preprint and ICCF-27-related abstract proposing a sub-picosecond pressure-pulse mechanism as a possible pre-thermal energy channel in condensed matter nuclear reactions.
Sources:
LinkedIn post / preprint notice
ICCF-27
4.) Intermediate domain between atomic and nuclear scales
Mario Menichella / FutureOn Srl circulated a paper discussing the possible physical importance of the 1–50 pm length-scale domain between ordinary atomic and nuclear regimes.
Sources:
SSRN paper link from draft
LENR Forum global landscape discussion
5.) JCMNS Volume 41
JCMNS Volume 41 continued to provide new CMNS papers and discussion, including work on Storms’ NAE model, Japan’s CMNS status, LEC experiments, Pd-Ni-Zr nanopowders, coherent resonance, neutron detection, plasma-assisted LENR, and causal-network models.
Sources:
JCMNS homepage
Storms: A New and Improved Understanding of Cold Fusion
Iwamura: Current Status of CMNS in Japan
Biberian et al.: High Temperature LEC Experiments
Liang et al.: Pd-Ni-Zr Alloy Nanopowders
Li et al.: Multiple Scattering, Coherent Resonance, Quantum Flux
Zhang and Zhou: Detecting Neutrons with CR-39
Xiao: Causal Network of LENR Process
Klimov and Pashchina: Hydrogen-Carbon Cluster Plasma
Patents:
Call for patent submissions
If you have newly published LENR, LANR, SSF, LCF, CMNS, hydrogen-metal, transmutation, direct energy conversion, or lattice-confinement-fusion patent numbers from USPTO, WIPO, EPO, JPO, CNIPA, or other patent offices, post them to the newsletter suggestion thread and we will include them in the next issue.
LENR-Forum Newsletter thread
In the Media:
1.) Materials-assisted fusion enters mainstream science coverage
The new Nature paper received wider coverage through UC Davis, EurekAlert, and Phys.org, with the central message that the material environment can significantly alter low-energy fusion yields.
Sources:
UC Davis
EurekAlert
Phys.org
2.) Yasuhiro Iwamura interview at Solid State Fusion Discovery
Solid State Fusion Discovery published a long interview with Yasuhiro Iwamura reviewing three decades of anomalous nuclear-phenomena research, transmutation studies, and the difficulty of control.
Sources:
Yasuhiro Iwamura: Three Decades of Studying Anomalous Nuclear Phenomena
Solid State Fusion interviews
3.) ENG8 industrialization coverage
New Fire Energy covered ENG8’s push toward real-world industrial testing in Portugal.
Sources:
ENG8 Moves Toward the Factory Floor
ENG8 News
4.) Commercial LENR commentary
Several July commentaries discussed what a first commercial LENR breakthrough could mean for energy engineering and validation.
Sources:
ZPEnergy LENR / New Energy news
New Fire Energy
5.) Nuclear battery contract noted in adjacent fusion news
Avalanche Energy received a DARPA Rads to Watts contract for nuclear-battery development. This is not LENR, but it is relevant to compact nuclear-energy and high-density power discussions.
Sources:
Nuclear Engineering International: DARPA awards nuclear battery contract
6.) A.I. Klimov gives a summary of LENR/Clean Energy Research:
Sources:
Pro-Atom Current status of clean energy research
Videos Worth Watching:
1.) Aureon Energy / SAFIRE video
Aureon-related behind-the-scenes video material was circulated through the community.
Source:
https://vimeo.com/1209132517
2.) A Taboo Dream Technology is Finally Becoming a Product! Is Japan’s “Compact Nuclear Fusion Heater…
3.) IWAHLM17 Bergamo: ENG8 Presents the EnergiCell 100kW Thermal Power Plan
4.) Anthropocene Institute video from May that was missed.
10x Cheaper Energy: The Barriers Holding Us Back – Expert Panel
5.) Matt Finn: Seeing Electricity in Space | Thunderbolts
Good To Know:
1.) Storms NAE gap-size discussion continued
LENR Forum discussion continued around Edmund Storms’ nuclear active environment model, including questions about nanogap size, material preparation, and what experimental evidence is needed to define the NAE. Forum posts also noted that Aureon expects to present at ICCF-27 and that Dr. David Nagel has joined Aureon’s advisory board.
Sources:
LENR Forum: Storms NAE GAP SIZE
Storms LENR research history
2.) LENR Forum community activity
Forum discussions this month included Aureon, ENG8, NHFE, Storms’ NAE model, lattice confinement fusion, the 17O preprint, media coverage, and ICCF-27 preparation.
Sources:
LENR Forum
LENR Forum latest posts
LENR News Newsletter archive
3.) LCF remains an important bridge topic
NASA’s lattice confinement fusion work continues to be one of the clearest bridges between conventional low-energy beam-target fusion, solid-state effects, isotope production, and the wider CMNS conversation.
Sources:
NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion
NASA NTRS LCF overview
NASA NTRS: LENR Products, LCF, Fission, or Both?
Community Events and Notices:
1.) ICCF-27 — Niagara Falls, Canada
ICCF-27 will take place August 31 – September 4, 2026, in Niagara Falls, Canada. The official site lists July 31, 2026 as the final registration deadline.
Sources:
ICCF-27 homepage
ICCF-27 important dates
ICCF-27 program
ISCMNS events listing
2.) NuMat2026: The Nuclear Materials Conference
NuMat2026 will be held September 21–24, 2026, in Halifax, Canada. While not a LENR conference, the materials-science focus is relevant to researchers studying hydrogen-loaded metals, radiation effects, defects, and fusion materials.
Sources:
NuMat2026 / Elsevier
IAEA event listing
3.) ISCMNS community resources
ISCMNS remains a central professional organization for the CMNS field, including conference activity, publications, and community networking.
Sources:
ISCMNS
ISCMNS Science page
JCMNS
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