KIYOSU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 10, 2025--
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:7282) has invested in Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. in July 2025, which aims to achieve practical nuclear fusion power generation as a promising energy source for the future.
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Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction where high power is generated without emitting CO 2. It is allegedly more controllable compared to nuclear fission because the reaction can be stopped quickly by ceasing to supply fuel. Deuterium and tritium for the fuel are also abundant in seawater. International competition is therefore intense in developing nuclear fusion as a way to fundamentally solve the world’s energy problem.
Helical Fusion is a startup that was established based on research findings at the National Institute for Fusion Science. With its strengths in engineering technology for the nuclear fusion reactors key to power generation, the company aims its social implementation.
As this new power generation is expected to grow, Toyoda Gosei invested in Helical Fusion with a view to exploring fields where the company can leverage its technology and increase its knowledge. This investment is one of the venture investments Toyoda Gosei is making as part of efforts to explore and enter new business fields.
Image of nuclear fusion reactor developed by Helical Fusion
Retired professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra faces charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession during a traffic stop on New Year's Day.
Dykstra, 62, was a passenger when the vehicle was pulled over by a trooper with the Blooming Grove patrol unit in Pike County, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Scranton, where Dykstra lives.
Police said in a statement that charges will be filed but did not specify what they may be or what drugs were allegedly involved.
Matthew Blit, Dykstra’s lawyer, said in a statement that the vehicle did not belong to Dykstra and he was not accused of being under the influence of a substance at the scene.
“To the extent charges are brought against him, they will be swiftly absolved,” Blit said.
Dykstra's gritty style of play over a long career with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies earned him the nickname “Nails.” He spent years as a businessman before running into a series of legal woes.
Dykstra served time in a California prison for bankruptcy fraud, sentenced to more than six months for hiding baseball gloves and other items from his playing days. That ran concurrent with a three-year sentence for pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement. He claimed he owed more than $31 million and had only $50,000 in assets.
In April 2012, Dykstra pleaded no contest to exposing himself to women he met through Craigslist.
In 2019, Dykstra pleaded guilty on behalf of his company, Titan Equity Group, to illegally renting out rooms in a New Jersey house that it owned. He agreed to pay about $3,000 in fines.
That same year a judge dropped drug and terroristic threat charges against Dykstra after an altercation with an Uber driver. Police said they found cocaine, MDMA and marijuana among his belongings. Dykstra's lawyer called that incident “overblown” and said he was innocent.
And in 2020 a New York Supreme Court judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit that Dykstra filed against former Mets teammate Ron Darling over his allegation that Dykstra made racist remarks toward an opponent during the 1986 World Series.
Justice Robert D. Kalish said Dykstra’s reputation “for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry” had already been so tarnished that it could not be damaged further.
“Based on the papers submitted on this motion, prior to the publication of the book, Dykstra was infamous for being, among other things, racist, misogynist, and anti-gay, as well as a sexual predator, a drug-abuser, a thief, and an embezzler,” Kalish wrote.
FILE - Former baseball player Lenny Dykstra sits during his sentencing for grand theft auto in Los Angeles, on Dec. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
