Fuse - Fusion Energy Library

Apr 2025

I Built $200M Nuclear Energy Startup at 19 | JC.B, Fuse

JC B. is the founder and CEO of Fuse, a pioneering fusion energy company. He started Fuse at just 19 years old, and by age 23, he has grown it into a $200M-valued startup, raising $52M in capital along the way.

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

Inside the lab trying to commercialise nuclear fusion

In a laboratory south of Montreal, Canada, scientists are busy trying to build the pathway for a new energy solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyARVmSaAE

Fifth Gait Technologies Completes Successful Shot Campaign on Fuse's Groundbreaking FAETON Fusion Radiation Source

SAN LEANDRO, Calif., April 8, 2025 — Fuse Energy Technologies announced the successful completion of a test campaign with Fifth Gait Technologies, validating the importance of its FAETON fusion radiation source for national security and space applications.

https://www.f.energy/library/fifth-gait-technologies-completes-successful-shot-campaign

TITAN Story - The Journey to 1TW

This short video showcases the team's efforts to rebuild and improve the TITAN, aiming for a more powerful and robust version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oqvxX449A

How TITAN Works?

A two-minute animation shows you how TITAN works.

https://youtu.be/QF4Fz3CMdiw

Radiation as a service: How the private sector can protect America's space infrastructure

A year ago, U.S. officials revealed Russia may be developing a space-based nuclear weapon to target Western satellites, violating international norms. A Congressional report suggests China is also pursuing similar capabilities.

https://spacenews.com/radiation-as-a-service-how-the-private-sector-can-protect-americas-space-infrastructure/

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?embedded-checkout=true

Inside a Fusion Startup's Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony

Robots! Huge capacitors! A pianist-programmer of impossible skill! One of Silicon Valley's formative figures takes the stage at a wild event.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-a-fusion-startups-insane-top-secret-opening-ceremony/

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/

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

SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2024 — Fuse, a leading fusion energy company, has appointed James Owen, Chief Engineer for Nuclear Weapons at LANL, as President of Fuse Federal, its subsidiary focused on U.S. government work.

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

Fuse Energy Technologies Raises $32M

Fuse Energy Technologies Corp. has raised \$32 million in a new funding round, part of a broader surge in commercial fusion investment. The company is taking an unconventional route by first building pulsed-power inertial fusion machines for radiation effects testing.

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

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

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (September 12, 2024) — Fuse Energy Technologies added two new Advisory Board members with extensive experience in the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and international government and commercial partnerships.

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

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

2024-08-29

Video

YouTube - First Principles

Aug 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

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

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/

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

Fuse Taps Former Top Nuclear & National Security Officials as Advisors

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (June 3, 2024) — Fuse Energy Technologies announced an Advisory Board of senior nuclear scientists and national security experts, including former leaders from the DOE, DOD, and CIA, to support partnerships in energy and defense.

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

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

2024-06-03

Blog

Not Boring by Packy McCormick

May 2024

Fuse Energy - The Potentially Profitable Path to Fusion Power

Fuse is developing pulsed power generators for near-term nuclear effects testing and long-term fusion energy. Unlike most fusion companies, it’s creating revenue along the way, similar to how SpaceX funds its Mars mission with launches and Starlink.

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

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

Fuse, an innovative fusion power company, announced its selection for an AFWERX SBIR contract to tackle key nuclear effects testing challenges for the Department of the Air Force.

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

2024-02-27

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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

TITAN's First Fire Timelapse Oct 2023

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

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

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

How APEIRON WORKS

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKRNwZuOk1

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

Existing conventional megajoule plasma focus machines with 2^C3 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

2022-08-22

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I Built $200M Nuclear Energy Startup at 19 | JC.B, Fuse

Inside the lab trying to commercialise nuclear fusion

Fifth Gait Technologies Completes Successful Shot Campaign on Fuse's Groundbreaking FAETON Fusion Radiation Source

TITAN Story - The Journey to 1TW

How TITAN Works?

Radiation as a service: How the private sector can protect America's space infrastructure

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

Inside a Fusion Startup's Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony

Los Alamos National Laboratory chief engineer joins nuclear fusion startup Fuse

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

Fuse Energy Technologies Raises $32M

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

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

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

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

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

JC Btaiche: Founding a Fusion company at 19

Fuse Taps Former Top Nuclear & National Security Officials as Advisors

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

Fuse Energy - The Potentially Profitable Path to Fusion Power

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

Who Will Win the Fusion Race?

TITAN's First Fire Timelapse Oct 2023

MagLIF: Dynamics and energetics of liner and fuel

How APEIRON WORKS

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

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