Forging the path to fusion power.

WHY FUSION

Fusion is nature’s preferred source of energy; it’s what powers the sun and stars, and makes life possible on Earth. Terrestrial fusion can provide a high power density energy solution to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. However, harnessing energy from the fusion reaction is one of the most formidable challenges in history. Doing so depends on achieving two conditions: 1) confining plasma at sufficiently high temperatures, and 2) doing so for a long enough amount of time to sustain a fusion reaction.

THE TAE DIFFERENCE

Since our inception, TAE has been committed to pursuing fusion with hydrogen-boron, a fuel source without environmental impact, particulate emissions, or radioactivity. It is safe, plentiful with over 100,000 years of supply, and accessed all across the world – but it requires maintaining higher temperatures to produce an energy-generating fusion reaction.

In order to achieve these performance levels, TAE developed a proprietary platform called an advanced beam-driven Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC). This approach combines the deepest insights of plasma physics and accelerator physics to heat and stabilize plasma. In addition, this compact linear configuration enables a physically smaller and therefore more scalable and cost-effective device.

The result: TAE will deliver power to the grid from our clean fusion and be ready to install reactors wherever power demand exists — including in dense urban areas — at a cost competitive with many other energy sources in wide use today. This will enable the fastest, most practical, and economically competitive solution to meet our growing energy needs, stem the effects of climate change, and offer global energy independence.

THE PATH TO FUSION POWER

The first 15 years of our history were times of immense innovation, proving our unique approach to fusion, its usability with a cleaner fusion fuel, and our ability to harness this reaction for energy. The last five years, however, have been a period of exponential progress — partly enabled by advances in technologies like machine learning, additive manufacturing, and advanced power management. Commercializing our fusion energy solution is not only viable, but imminent. Fusion has also given TAE insight to developing breakthroughs in advanced therapeutics for cancer patients and revolutionary technologies for energy storage and e-mobility.

With an experienced team of more than 600 employees; an independent science advisory panel including Nobel Laureates and Maxwell Prize winners; five National Laboratory-scale devices; and two additional machines in development, TAE is on the cusp of delivering the perfect energy source to sustain the planet for generations to come.

HISTORY OF INNOVATION