Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy and Construction Giant AECOM Form the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium
May 7, 2026
Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy, and AECOM have formed the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium, a private-sector-led effort to build a 400 MWe stellarator-based fusion power plant in the United Kingdom by 2034. The plant is the second to use Type One Energy’s stellarator design and the second fusion plant announced for the UK, after the STEP tokamak.
The Fusion Decathlon Part 5: Who Are the Winners? Actually, No One Yet…
April 30, 2026
Inertia and LLNL Sign Patent and Teaming Agreements; Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Announcement
/ April 15, 2026
Inertia Enterprises announced one of the largest private sector-led collaborations in the history of the U.S. national lab system, signing two Strategic Partnership Projects and a CRADA alongside a licensing agreement covering nearly 200 LLNL patents. Separately, the DOE’s Jefferson National Accelerator Facility received its second round of funding for a spin-polarized fusion fuel project that could increase the likelihood of fusion reactions by 50%.
The 2026 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit came to San Diego with a packed agenda and a complicated message for the fusion industry. Fission is getting the political tailwind, China is outspending the US on fusion by a wide margin, and AI is accelerating energy demand in ways the grid isn’t yet equipped to meet. Our full dispatch from the summit floor.
A wave of federal funding headlines this week’s fusion news, with ARPA-E committing $135 million and SHINE securing a $263 million conditional DOE loan. TAE Technologies is scouting sites for its first power plant, Pulsar Fusion hit a propulsion milestone, and CSIS is sounding the alarm on China’s fusion push.
The Fusion Decathlon Part 2: Different Challenges for Different (Potential) Solutions
/ April 9, 2026
Part two of The Fusion Decathlon examines why different fusion approaches face different commercial challenges. This installment breaks down the specific engineering hurdles confronting inertial fusion energy: driver efficiency, target manufacturing, repetition rate, and the precision required to make several shots per second work for decades.
As global governments pour billions into fusion commercialization, US legislation and a new DOE Office of Fusion aim to keep America competitive. We break down what’s in the pipeline.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Realta Fusion announced a long-term strategic partnership on HTS magnets covering demonstration prototypes through commercial power plants. Physics Today profiles stellarators as leading fusion contenders. Siemens Energy deepens its industrial role across the fusion sector. nT-Tao shares Q1 progress including C3 first plasma. And New Mexico adds fusion to its state clean energy tax credit.
A fusion power plant isn’t one hard problem. It’s ten. The Fusion Decathlon introduces a new framework for evaluating the field: ten events every fusion company must master before putting electricity on the grid. The scoreboard is already running.
Inertia Enterprises, co-founded by laser fusion veteran Mike Dunne, is taking a deliberate approach to commercializing the only fusion method that has achieved energy gain. With $450 million in funding, the company is pairing mass-manufactured targets with efficient diode-based lasers and leaning on proven power conversion technology rather than unproven alternatives. It’s a bet that disciplined engineering will get laser ICF to market faster.