Fusion energy

Pacific Fusion has initiated construction on its Research and Manufacturing Campus in New Mexico, aiming to advance fusion energy technology and establish a domestic fusion manufacturing industry. The facility will house a Demonstration System designed to achieve net facility gain by 2030 and will also expand manufacturing of modular components.

A new manufacturing process for cryogenically frozen deuterium-tritium fuel layers reduces production cycles from days to hours, lowering costs and regulatory burden for inertial confinement fusion targets.

The Department of Energy has committed funding to develop a fusion breeding blanket test facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in partnership with Kyoto Fusioneering, alongside a Kyoto Fusioneering move of its U.S. headquarters to Oak Ridge, Tenn., supported by Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund.

Fabrication of ITER’s vacuum vessel sectors is split between Europe and South Korea, and the project has continued progressing core sector-module installations within the tokamak pit since April 2025, with sector module #1 transferred in late July.