Realta Fusion announces Madison Wisconsin For Its New Fusion Energy Headquarters and Research Facility
July 15, 2026
Realta Fusion announced it will build its corporate headquarters and fusion R&D facility, “The Realta Forge,” at OM Station, the former Oscar Mayer plant in Madison, Wisconsin. The state and city committed up to $55 million in incentives: an estimated $37.5 million in state sales and use tax exemptions, up to $15 million in WEDC enterprise zone tax credits, and $2.8 million in city tax increment financing. Realta expects to create over 600 jobs and to break ground before the end of the year on the facility where it will build Hammir, its prototype magnetic mirror fusion machine. The deal follows Wisconsin Act 165, the first standalone state law in American history to exempt fusion energy capital expenditures from state sales tax. The Fusion Report looks at why the hometown choice makes sense and what it signals about Realta’s next funding round.
Cosylab: Giving Control to Production Fusion Systems
/ July 9, 2026
The Fusion Report interviews Mark Pleško, CEO of Cosylab, a 250-person Slovenian company that has built control systems for ITER, UKAEA, and major research labs for over two decades. Pleško explains why fusion startups tend to treat controls as a problem to solve later, what that technical debt costs them, and how the Fusionics initiative co-founded with UKAEA aims to give the industry a standard control framework.
Helical Fusion Progresses on Construction of Their First Production Power Plant
/ July 6, 2026
Helical Fusion has added a long-established Japanese general contractor to its Helix Program as an Official Partner and signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate toward the construction of Helix KANATA, the company’s fusion pilot plant targeted for the 2030s. The two firms will examine construction requirements and project execution approaches for future fusion power facilities. The contractor joins the earlier Official Partners announced in April 2026 in building out the industrial foundation for commercial fusion in Japan.
The Fusion Industry Association’s fourth annual supply chain report found fusion supply chain spending rose 24 percent in 2025 to $538 million, launched at the industry’s first supply chain trade show in Santa Fe. General Fusion signed a framework agreement with Italy’s Renexia to site and build commercial Magnetized Target Fusion plants. nT-Tao’s Q2 update logged more than 1,000 experiments and launched a fusion power barge project with ABS and Siemens Energy. LLNL found that circularly polarized lasers could save optics at NIF. The Fusion Report also covers CFS becoming the first international partner in the UKAEA’s £220 million LIBRTI tritium program and Realta’s first-ever direct conversion of plasma energy into electricity by a private fusion company. Plus the tracker at 24 companies and $11.4B in disclosed funding.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the UK Atomic Energy Authority Team Up on Tritium Production
/ July 1, 2026
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has become the first international partner in the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s LIBRTI program, a £220 million effort to demonstrate net tritium production for fusion power plants. The two organizations will jointly design the experimental setup and run investigations at a new facility being built at UKAEA’s Culham Campus, which will draw on a high-flux neutron source from Shine Technologies. CFS, which describes itself as the best-funded fusion company with more than $3 billion raised, will build the test articles used to validate the tritium breeding blanket design for its ARC power plant planned for Virginia. Tritium breeding blankets are a shared engineering challenge across fusion approaches, and cross-company collaboration on the technology is becoming more common as the industry moves toward first-of-a-kind machines.
Realta Demonstrates Direct Energy Conversion In a Fusion Energy Setting
/ June 30, 2026
Realta Fusion demonstrated direct energy conversion (DEC) of plasma kinetic energy into electricity at the WHAM fusion machine at UW-Madison, drawing current at about 100 volts to light several bulbs. The company describes it as the first such demonstration by a commercial fusion company and points to DEC as a way to raise efficiency and lower cost in its planned mid-2030s plants.
The Impact of AI and the Data Center Goldrush on Non-Data Center Construction Costs
/ June 25, 2026
The AI data center buildout is pushing up costs well beyond electricity and water. A recent study finds it is also raising the price of construction materials and skilled labor while absorbing capital that non-data-center projects, including commercial fusion, are competing for. The Fusion Report looks at who pays, who benefits, and what the $6.7 trillion data center forecast means for fusion’s race for investment.
E&P Technologies: Putting the Lightning into Capacitors for Fusion and Aerospace
/ June 23, 2026
As fusion energy moves closer to commercial deployment, The Fusion Report is expanding its coverage of the fusion supply chain. This piece profiles E&P Technologies, a Melbourne, Florida startup building high voltage pulsed power capacitors for fusion and aerospace, and includes an interview with co-founder and CEO Caroline Sorrick on US manufacturing and how rapidly evolving fusion requirements affect suppliers.
Helion Energy secured the licenses needed to operate a fusion power plant, clearing the way for its Orion plant in Malaga, Washington. General Atomics will collaborate with the DOE to design the first full-scale fusion blanket test facility. General Fusion’s roughly $1 billion merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III cleared SEC review, with a shareholder vote set for July 6. Type One Energy added former bp CEO Bernard Looney to its board, and Inertia formed a Science and Technology Advisory Board. The Fusion Report also looks at China EAST’s run at 2027 ignition, asks whether data centers belong in space, and refreshes its Top Fusion Companies by Funding tracker at $11.4 billion across 24 companies.