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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:

– How digital simulations lead to real-world fusion, with TAE’s Director of Computational Science Sean Dettrick

– Proving FRC fusion stability at scale, with Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald