TAE Technologies commenced site visits across multiple U.S. locations as part of its siting and development process for its first fusion power plant.
The visits, scheduled across the United States, are part of a broader evaluation effort to identify locations capable of supporting the development, construction and long-term operation of TAE’s initial 50 MWe fusion facility and future utility-scale deployments.
TAE Technologies Announces Cedric Burgher as Chief Financial Officer – Burgher brings more than two decades of financial leadership experience in capital-intensive, publicly traded energy companies, including serving as CFO of Occidental Petroleum, QR Energy and KBR, Inc.
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TAE and UKAEA partner to commercialize advanced fusion technology – New joint venture TAE Beam UK will develop neutral beams for fusion and accelerator innovations for non-fusion applications.
Scientists dreaming of fusion are no longer toiling in the shadows. They are being courted by governors, billionaires and tech behemoths eager to get in on the ground floor of what they see as a transformative, carbon-free fusion economy. TAE, for example, is so closely collaborating with Google on its work that the Silicon Valley tech giant has a virtual control room on its campus enabling it to engage with the fusion firm’s experiments.
Scientists dreaming of fusion are no longer toiling in the shadows. They are being courted by governors, billionaires and tech behemoths eager to get in on the ground floor of what they see as a transformative, carbon-free fusion economy. TAE, for example, is so closely collaborating with Google on its work that the Silicon Valley tech giant has a virtual control room on its campus enabling it to engage with the fusion firm’s experiments.
TAE’s relationship with UC Irvine has been a critical cornerstone of the company’s development. From the earliest days, the university provided the company with credibility, resources, and an innovative ecosystem that enabled the company’s growth.
Since 2014, Google computer scientists have worked with engineers at TAE to use machine learning (a form of AI) to find the ideal settings for a fusion device.
The company is working closely with Google, which is seeking advanced energy sources to power its hyperscale data centers.
TAE Technologies commenced site visits across multiple U.S. locations as part of its siting and development process for its first fusion power plant.
The visits, scheduled across the United States, are part of a broader evaluation effort to identify locations capable of supporting the development, construction and long-term operation of TAE’s initial 50 MWe fusion facility and future utility-scale deployments.
TAE Technologies Announces Cedric Burgher as Chief Financial Officer – Burgher brings more than two decades of financial leadership experience in capital-intensive, publicly traded energy companies, including serving as CFO of Occidental Petroleum, QR Energy and KBR, Inc.
This week, we welcomed analysts to TAE Technologies’ headquarters for a look at how we’re advancing American fusion energy to power the A.I. revolution.
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TAE and UKAEA partner to commercialize advanced fusion technology – New joint venture TAE Beam UK will develop neutral beams for fusion and accelerator innovations for non-fusion applications.
Today we’re introducing a new member of our team: Cedric Burgher has joined TAE Technologies as Chief Financial Officer: https://tae.com/tae-technologies-announces-cedric-burgher-as-chief-financial-officer/
With more than two decades of financial leadership experience in publicly traded energy companies, Burgher will play a key role as we construct our first utility-scale fusion power plant and scale toward public company readiness.
“TAE has the potential to redefine global energy,” said Burgher. “Delivering on that opportunity requires rigorous financial stewardship and disciplined capital allocation. I look forward to working with the team as we build the foundation necessary to support the development of fusion power plants.”
Our mission to deliver commercial fusion power starts with our preferred fuel, hydrogen-boron (also known as p-B11 or p-11B), which is non-radioactive, safe and abundant.
Hydrogen-boron is an ideal fuel source for fusion reactions because it’s:
🌳 Safe and sustainable
🌊 Abundant in nature and commonly mined on Earth
🎈 Less expensive than other fusion fuels, enabling scalable, cost-competitive electricity production.
Through our partnership with Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), our scientists are experimenting with hydrogen-boron to gain insight for our commercial fusion concept.
Today, we’re congratulating the TAE-NIFS team on a major milestone: their recent publication in the journal Nuclear Fusion about an innovative heating method that combines radio frequency waves with neutral particle beams to enhance the hydrogen-boron fusion reaction rate: https://lnkd.in/ezcdnCYZ
This publication results from years of collaboration between TAE and NIFS, and it points to a promising method for generating clean, safe and cost-effective fusion energy.⚡
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the United Kingdom and its national fusion lab, @UKAEAofficial, to commercialize our world-leading particle accelerator technology for the global market: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tae-technologies-and-ukaea-partner-to-commercialise-fusion-tech
At the center of this partnership is TAE Beam UK, a joint venture to design, develop and ultimately manufacture and service neutral beams for fusion. TAE Beam UK – the first US-UK public-private partnership of its kind – will also develop accelerator technology for state-of-the-art cancer therapeutics, food safety, homeland security and more.
With investment from the UKAEA, this new entity will operate out of the lab’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire, UK, expanding TAE’s presence in the region and establishing a global hub for this vital fusion technology.
TAE continues to redefine FRC fusion with our advanced neutral beam technology.
Our particle accelerators have already achieved a scientific breakthrough this year with our machine’s ability to form, heat and stabilize an FRC plasma using only neutral beam injection – a first in fusion.
Now, our team has optimized this technology even more to tackle two of the biggest hurdles for an FRC machine: plasma stability at fusion-relevant temperatures.
New research published in Nuclear Fusion from the TAE team, led by James Titus, details how we’ve increased beam current drive and implemented fast modulation of beam energy – enhancements that improve our plasma performance as we scale toward the cleanest, safest commercial fusion power.
– Read the latest on our neutral beam optimization in Nuclear Fusion.
– See more of our recent work: TAE.com/Research
Congratulations to Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald, Science Fellow Dan Barnes and the rest of the TAE team on winning a 2025 INFUSE Award!
This @U.S. Department of Energy research grant will support TAE’s work with a new algorithm that can perform higher fidelity simulations of plasma behavior — capturing crucial, previously unseen details that will advance our development of a cost-effective fusion machine.
The algorithm is an upgraded Darwin model, enhanced by TAE Science Fellow Dan Barnes to run faster and in 3D. TAE will partner with @Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to implement this new approach into the open-source code, WarpX, and use it to simulate plasma performance in our current machine.
As a company founded out of @UC Irvine, we’re proud to continue our tradition of intentional public-private partnership to deliver the cleanest and safest commercial fusion power. Thank you to the DOE for investing in the future of fusion, and thank you to our LBNL colleagues for their collaboration!
Want to learn more about TAE’s advanced simulations? Add these “Good Clean Energy” episodes to your podcast playlist:
– Proving FRC fusion stability at scale, with Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald