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List of Fusion Demonstration and Pilot Plants proposed locations

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Demonstration: SPARC - Devens, MA 75% complete
  • Pilot (eventually commercial) 400MW: ARC - Chesterfield Co, VA Groundbreaking 2027

Helion Energy

  • Demonstration: Polaris - Everett, WA Operational 2025
  • Pilot 50MW: Orion - Malaga, WA Groundbreaking April 2026

Type One Energy

  • Demonstration: Infinity One - Claxton, TN inside Bull Run Turbine Hall(North)
  • Pilot 350MW: Infinity Two - Claxton, TN at Bull Run site TBD

Proxima Fusion

  • Demonstration: Alpha - Garching at Max Planck IPP
  • Pilot 1GW: Stellaris - Gundremmingen at former NPP

Realta Fusion

  • Demonstration: Hammir - Madison, WI (OM Depot) "The Forge"
  • Pilot 200MW: Hammir-DT location TBD

Thea Energy

  • Demonstration: Eos location TBD (2026?)
  • Pilot 390MW: Helios location TBD

Xcimer Energy

  • Laser-only Prototypes: Phoenix 1-2kJ (June 2026) and Anvil 200kJ (2028) - Denver, CO
  • Demonstration: Vulcan 4MJ-12MJ (2031) location TBD
  • Pilot 400MW: Athena (2035) location TBD

TAE Technologies

  • Demonstration: Copernicus - Irvine, CA (cancelled)
  • Pilot 50MW: Da Vinci location TBD (2026? AL, TX, OH, or GA)

Pacific Fusion

  • Demonstration: DS (Demonstration System) - Albuquerque, NM (Mesa Del Sol)

UKAEA

  • Pilot 100MW: STEP - West Burton Power Station, Nottinghamshire, UK (2040)

Focused Energy

  • Demonstration: LightHouse - Biblis at former NPP
  • Pilot: at Biblis former NPP (2037)
reddit.com
u/Baking — 8 days ago
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"South Korea will be a 'top five' country in the global fusion supply chain." - Bob Mumgard

mk.co.kr
u/Baking — 10 days ago
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Dan Brunner and Tony Donné have conflicting views of General Fusion in the Financial Times

ft.com
u/Baking — 13 days ago
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An American machine fires 500,000 amps down a column of gas twelve times a minute, twenty times the current of a lightning bolt, into a chamber the size of a water heater, and the fusion company that built it is now selling a fission reactor based on a Japanese design nobody ever finished

autonocion.com
u/Baking — 15 days ago
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Inside the race to power AI data centers with fusion energy — and the surprise detours along the way

geekwire.com
u/Baking — 22 days ago