Fusion & Fission Brief

Pacific Fusion's $187K median base salary across 20 public postings highlights active technical hiring at a Series A fusion startup.

• Reveals:...

Kairos Power secured $643 million in combined private and DOE funding to advance Hermes 2 construction and New Mexico manufacturing, with an extra...

The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the American Bureau of Shipping signed an MOU to collaborate on advanced nuclear technology for maritime purposes.

Avalanche Energy's pact with the Tri-City Development Council targets a Richland plant for fusion power device manufacturing, signaling regional...

Two distinct approaches address the tritium bottleneck.

• Cambridge Heavy Industries raised $6.2 million for compact laser reactors aimed at direct...

Germany's new €500M program pays fusion startups only after independent experts verify each milestone, cutting funding for any company that falls...

ENEA and Exergon Ventures signed a five-year agreement to combine research expertise with deep-tech venture scouting for next-generation fission...

Fusion offers a distinct environmental profile from fission, centered on fuel use, waste longevity, and inherent safety features.

• Fuel cycle:...

Cost-shared DOE funding under the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program is accelerating the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) to first...

Fusion CX secured $33.1 million from anchor investors ahead of its planned IPO, part of a sector-wide surge that brought fusion startups a record $4.0...

The UK channels fusion commercialization through UK Fusion Energy Ltd, a private company limited by shares and wholly owned subsidiary of the UK...

Three companies reported DOE Milestone Program progress tied to verified achievements:

• Xcimer Energy secured up to $30.5M more funding after...

Fusion commercialization faces a lithium-6 and tritium bottleneck that links civilian power to national security stockpiles.

• Tritium scarcity: No...

Three major nuclear deals signal both commercialization momentum and strategic positioning for AI-driven power demand.

• Amazon-Constellation:...

OpenStar Technologies is advancing levitated-dipole reactor technology as a pathway to commercial fusion power through a new partnership with PPPL to strengthen the scientific and engineering foundations required.

PPPL is feeding its tokamak data, physics codes like TRANSP and XGC, and high-performance compute into a CFS-led digital twin of SPARC to deliver...

The article directly asks whether nuclear fuel can be delivered in time to power advanced reactors, highlighting potential supply-chain timing risks amid broader investment interest.

Advances in high-power laser diodes are shifting inertial fusion energy from physics milestone to engineering reality.

• Efficiency gains: Modern...

The new NASA-DOE agreement establishes a full institutional and supply-chain pipeline—from nuclear fuel production and reactor development through...

NNSA's August MOU with Pacific Fusion creates a framework to explore high-yield fusion systems for stockpile stewardship experiments that recreate...