VOL. 01 · ISSUE 011
The Fusion PlatformFusion, without the confusion.
Complete index
Reporting, analysis, explainers and editorials from across the fusion field.
Industry · Market debut
General Fusion began Nasdaq trading with about $150m in reported cash. The money can finance experiments and disclosure. A power plant remains a much larger undertaking.
Policy · The daily brief
The new federal roadmap is most useful when read not as a promise of power by a date, but as a specification for the facilities, components and evidence America must buy.
Policy · The commercial race
America is favourite to build the first credible commercial-style pilot. China is better placed to build the second, tenth and fiftieth plants. The latter is the race that matters.
Analysis · The Platform View
Fusion will be won or lost by the industrial platform surrounding the machine: materials, drivers, magnets, diagnostics, fuel, manufacturing, regulation and talent.
Science · Milestone, Explained
NIF established a historic physics result. The next question is how target gain becomes repeatable, efficient and useful at plant scale.
Science · The Bottleneck
The first wall, blanket and high-heat-flux components are not supporting details. They set the possible lifetime of a fusion plant.
Industry · Industry
Commercial value is forming in magnets, lasers, pulsed power, diagnostics and manufacturing before the first grid-scale plant.
Policy · Editorial
Fusion policy should choose safety, evidence and speed while leaving reactor architecture to technical competition.
Policy · Policy Watch
A rare concentration of universities, national laboratories, capital and industry can function as infrastructure for the whole field.
Analysis · Systems accounting
Fusion schedules become legible only when each claim is located on the full path from plasma experiment to repeatable infrastructure.
Field Guide · Reality Check
Fuel abundance is not fuel-cycle readiness. Breeding, extraction, inventory and losses form one integrated constraint.
Technology · AI × fusion
The most important applications connect experiment design, diagnostics, control, maintenance and plant learning.