US Fusion Push: Pacific Fusion’s $1B Plant Targets Net Energy Gain
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Pacific Fusion is building a $1B Albuquerque campus to test pulsed-power inertial confinement fusion, aiming for net facility energy gain and 100+ MJ pulses, backed by LLNL/Sandia/Los Alamos research and a DOE/NNSA partnership; a Los Lunas hardware plant will mass-produce modular pulsed-power stages as the US seeks fusion leadership.
Topics:business#energy#fusion-energy#high-energy-density-physics#inertial-confinement#national-security#pulsed-power
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