Gauss Fusion
🇩🇪 Garching bei München, DE · Founded 2022 · Active
Gauss Fusion GmbH is a German company set up by European industrial firms with experience building components for fusion research machines, to design commercial fusion power plants. It is registered in Garching near Munich. It has chosen the stellarator, a magnetic confinement machine whose twisted coils shape the field that holds the plasma, and plans GIGA, a gigawatt-class power plant it aims to have by 2045. It has published a Conceptual Design Report for GIGA and says an independent review found the concept ready for the next phase. Its chief executive stepped down in April 2026 as the company moved from conceptual design into engineering, testing and technology development. It is a member of the Fusion Industry Association.
- Sector
- Fusion
- Technology
- Stellarator
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Fusion developer
Terms
- Stellarator
- Confinement produced by external coils twisted into complex three-dimensional shapes, so no net current has to be driven through the plasma. That removes the disruptions a tokamak's plasma current can cause and allows continuous operation, at the price of coils that are far harder to design and build.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.