Pacific Fusion Reduces Reactor Construction Costs

Pacific Fusion, a California startup, has developed a pulsed magnetized-target fusion reactor that avoids superconducting magnets and claims up to 60 percent construction cost reductions. The company has demonstrated fusion reactions in a Fremont prototype and raised a $900 million Series B led by General Catalyst. It plans net energy gain by 2028 and a pilot plant supplying the grid by 2032.