First thing first, here's the Next Step Fusion blog and website.

Organizations list on the Fusion Energy Base.

• FIA Fusion Industry reports

• Fusion for Future reports

• Fusion on the EPRI portal

• Strategy& on fusion

• Overview of the UK fusion sector (by London Economics)

• Fusion Energy: A Global Effort - A UK Opportunity (by Assystem)

• G7 Puts Fusion Forward

  An article with analysis of the FIA report for 2024.

• Plasma Physics: Introduction

• Plasma Physics: Applications

A solid intro into plasma physics theory and applications from EPFL.

At the moment of writing the audit of those courses and lecture notes is available for free, but the full admission with graded assignments is rather costly (I wonder if that's the case for a majority of courses on edX?).

• Nuclear Fusion and ITER Science and Technology

A story told by three experts in turns: a climatologist, a physicist and an engineer.

• The Future Of Fusion Energy

• Private Fusion Research Collection by AIP publishing.

  This Special Topic is intended to explore future directions for fusion and plasma science in light of the expansion of private fusion research. The collection will feature "Perspective" Manuscripts that provide "unique views on where the field is headed and promising strategies for progress." These papers will describe significant contributions to the ongoing dialog and help researchers take the maximum advantage of the opportunities that this new circumstance offers.

• Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? A concise historical essay + possible future scenarios. Very neat.

  In the U.S., interest in fusion was spurred by an announcement from the Argentinian dictator Juan Peron that his country had successfully achieved nuclear fusion in 1951. This was quickly shown to be false, and within a matter of months the physicist behind the work, Ronald Richter, had been jailed for misleading the president.

  ^a friend of mine from Argentina responded that this story is (in)famous, and that "ironically, it actually spurned the creation of the Balseiro institute, which is now one of the top centers on nuclear physics"

  ITER began in 1979 as INTOR, the International Tokamak Reactor, an international collaboration between Japan, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and the European energy organization Euratom. The INTOR program resulted in several studies and reactor designs, but no actual plans to build a reactor. Further progress came in 1985, after Mikhail Gorbachev’s ascent to leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev was convinced by Evgeny Velikhov that a fusion collaboration could help defuse Cold War tensions, and after a series of discussions, INTOR was reconstituted as ITER in 1986.

• Nuclear Fusion is not a Moonshot but an Attainable Goal (by Forbes)

• UK fusion reactor sets world record - celebration of the JET's shutdown.

• Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment ...and funding, and this short retrospective of NIF and JET projects should provide inspiration to get some.