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2d ago

Fuse Signs Five-Year CRADA With Nevada National Security Sites

The agreement links Fuse’s pulsed‑power engineering to NNSS testing to pursue tritium capability development, higher neutron yields and next‑generation fusion validation.

Nevada National Security Site photo.
This is Fuse’s custom wire array implosion device. When high currents flow through these ultra thin wires (less than 25um, thinner than a human hair), we create plasma that releases radiation in the form of x-rays.
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Overview

  • Fuse has signed a five‑year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Mission Support and Test Services to work at the Nevada National Security Sites under NNSA oversight.
  • The CRADA identifies initial research priorities that include advancing tritium handling and production capabilities, increasing neutron yield in pulsed fusion generators, and validating next‑generation fusion technologies.
  • Coverage reports that Fuse is pursuing a Magnetized‑Liner Inertial Fusion approach and has developed an IMG pulser, but those technical claims are reported with limited independent verification.
  • The agreement builds on Fuse’s earlier CRADAs with Los Alamos and Sandia and creates a longer‑term path to move company bench work and pulsed‑power hardware into NNSS facilities managed by MSTS.
  • The partnership is in early implementation and could speed both government radiation‑effects testing and private fusion development while strengthening U.S. pulsed‑power industrial capacity.