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Press Release
Fuse News
November 2024

Los Alamos Chief Engineer Joins Nuclear Fusion Startup Fuse to Lead Federal Business

SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2024 Fuse, a leading nuclear fusion company dedicated to accelerating the world's transition to fusion energy while safeguarding humankind, today announced the appointment of Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Chief Engineer for Nuclear Weapons, James Owen, as President of Fuse Federal, the company's wholly-owned subsidiary focused on U.S. government business.

https://www.f.energy/library/los-alamos-chief-engineer-joins-fuse

News Journal
Reuters
November 2024

Los Alamos National Laboratory chief engineer joins nuclear fusion startup Fuse

The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/los-alamos-national-laboratory-chief-engineer-joins-nuclear-fusion-startup-fuse-2024-11-21/

News Journal
Bloomberg
September 2024

Nuclear Startup Fuse Valued at Over $200 Million in New Funding

Dreams of nuclear fusion have captured investors’ attention in recent years, spurring a boom in private funding driven by technological breakthroughs, new federal funding and the promise of cheap, abundant energy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/nuclear-startup-fuse-valued-at-over-200-million-in-new-funding

News Journal
Ignition
September 2024

Fuse Energy Technologies Raises $32M

There’s been another wave of funding into the commercial fusion sector, with Fuse Energy Technologies Corp. raising a fresh $32 million. The startup is pursuing an unconventional path to fusion energy by first building pulsed-power inertial fusion machines and using them to help customers test radiation effects.

https://ignition-news.com/fuse-energy-technologies-raises-32m/

Press Release
Fuse News
September 2024

Fuse Expands Advisory Board with Former Lockheed Martin Executive and Department of Defense Nuclear Official

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (September 12, 2024) — U.S.-based Fuse Energy Technologies (Fuse) announced two new Advisory Board members who have deep experience with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and with international allied governments and commercial entities.

https://www.f.energy/library/fuse-welcome-new-advisory-board-members-doug-greenlaw-and-gregory-van-dyk

Press Release
Fuse News
August 2024

Fuse’s TITAN - World’s First High Power IMG - Test Results Peer-Reviewed and Published in Nature Scientific Reports

Fuse published a peer-reviewed paper that details test results of its novel pulsed-power driver, TITAN, the world’s first high-energy and high-power impedance-matched Marx generator (IMG).

https://www.f.energy/library/titan-results-nature-scientific-reports

Video
YouTube - First Principles
August 2024

How To Build a 1-Terawatt, 600,000 Amp Pulsed Power Generator

Podcast of JC Btaiche and Christian Keil on the channel about deep tech deep dives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GYVqwmQDQ

News Journal
Forbes
July 2024

Why Top Nuclear Experts And Ex-CIA Brass Joined A High School Grad's Tiny Fusion Startup

Twenty-four-year-old JC Btaiche has raised $20 million and signed on Iran’s former top nuclear scientist and former Pentagon officials with an audacious goal: using nuclear fusion to solve all our energy problems.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/07/03/fuse-fusion-energy-startup-cia/

Press Release
Fuse News
July 2024

Fuse Signs Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) With Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia)

This strategic collaboration will accelerate the development of next generation pulsed power technologies critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent as well as advancing fusion energy, a clean and limitless future energy source.

https://www.f.energy/library/fuse-sandia-crada-announcement

Video
YouTube - S3
June 2024

JC Btaiche: Founding a Fusion company at 19

Interview with JC Btaiche, founder of Fuse for episode 46 of S³

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_9SCqBkdA

Video
YouTube - S3
June 2024

Harnessing the energy of stars... in a bottle | Fuse

Fuse is tackling one of humanity's most ambitious endeavors: fusion energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgfDbGmmVc

Press Release
Fuse News
June 2024

Fuse Taps Former Top Nuclear & National Security Officials as Advisors

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (June 3, 2024) — Fuse Energy Technologies Corporation (Fuse) today announced an Advisory Board that will help the company forge partnerships in the energy and defense sectors. The group of senior nuclear scientists and national security experts includes former high-ranking officials from the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

https://www.f.energy/library/advisoryboard

Blog
Not Boring by Packy McCormick
May 2024

Fuse Energy - The Potentially Profitable Path to Fusion Power

Fuse is building pulsed power generators that can be used, in the near-term, for nuclear effects testing, and, in the long-term, to produce fusion power. It’s unique among fusion companies in that it’s building a business that can fund its journey to fusion, similar to SpaceX using launches and Starlink to fund its mission to Mars.

https://www.notboring.co/p/fuse-energy

Press Release
Fuse News
Feb 2024

Fusion Start-Up Wins Air Force SBIR Contract to Prototype Lower Cost Nuclear Effects Testing

Fuse -- an innovative company delivering engineering breakthroughs related to fusion power -- today announced that it has been selected for an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the AirForce related to nuclear effects testing.

https://www.f.energy/library/usairforcesbirannouncement

Video
YouTube - Age of Miracles by Packy McCormick
Dec 2023

Who Will Win the Fusion Race?

In the bizarro relay marathon that is the fusion race, the baton is firmly in the hands of the startups. The outcome, to be sure, is still uncertain, but the question isn’t whether humanity will achieve commercial fusion, but which companies will, with which approaches, when?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8suLtCyGGA

Video
YouTube - Fuse
Oct 2023

titan phase 1 assembly time lapse

6 monthd time-lapse video of the 6 stage TITAN assembly, the world's highest power IMG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj2I7UFEVlI

Peer Reviewed Paper
ScienceDirect
Oct 2023

MagLIF: Dynamics and energetics of liner and fuel

Pinch-based fusion reactors require multi-MA currents delivered to mm-radii at high fusion fuel densities, leading to necessity of a metallic liner for the current path. One possible solution is MagLIF, magnetized liner inertial fusion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042207X23006681#fig2

Video
YouTube - Fuse
Aug 2023

How APEIRON I WORKS

This animation shows the concept of how Apeiron using MagLIF to generate power and recycle nuclear waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKRNwZuOk0

Peer Reviewed Paper
IOPscience
Aug 2022

Pushing the limits of existing plasma focus towards 1016 fusion neutrons with Q = 0.01

Existing conventional megajoule plasma focus machines with 2–3 MA are producing fusion neutron yields of several times 1011 in deuterium operation, the fusion yields predominantly being the beam-gas target.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-6272/ac78cc/meta

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