Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device
Kyoto Fusioneering is expanding its U.S. presence by establishing a headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop the Unity-3 device, which tests fuel cycle technologies like breeding blankets for fusion reactors.
In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse to unleash enormous amounts of energy. But a fusion reactor can’t run for long without a lot of other equipment, and building a fusion reactor is expensive enough on its own. Plenty of startups are happy to let someone else handle the rest .
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