Overview
- Minister-President Markus Söder announced that letters of intent for projects in Garching and Gundremmingen will be signed soon.
- The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics confirmed it aims to build a stellarator demonstrator in Garching in collaboration with local start-ups.
- The planned demonstrator is designed to prove net-energy operation as an intermediate step toward a commercial power plant.
- Federal policy foresees up to €2 billion for fusion development by 2029, with formal applications and selection processes cited as the next step.
- Gundremmingen, the former nuclear power site, is proposed for a future fusion plant, and expert estimates put the Garching demonstrator in the hundreds of millions of euros with Wendelstein 7-X as the technical precursor.