Fuse Energy
🇺🇸 San Leandro, US · Founded 2019 · Active
Fuse Energy Technologies is a fusion company founded in 2019 and based in San Leandro, California, with job listings also in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Montreal. It builds pulsed-power drivers, banks of fast generators that release stored electrical energy in very short, intense pulses, to drive magnetised liner inertial fusion (MagLIF), a scheme developed at Sandia National Laboratories in which a pulse of current crushes a metal cylinder holding magnetised fuel. Fusion Energy Base rates its TITAN driver at 1 terawatt in 100-nanosecond bursts. Fuse also sells nuclear effects testing to US defence and national security customers, which its website presents as a source of revenue on the way to fusion power. It raised a $32 million Series A in September 2024 and is a member of the Fusion Industry Association.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Magneto-inertial
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
Terms
- Magneto-inertial
- Compression of a magnetised plasma; sits between MCF and ICF in density and timescale.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.