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• Avalanche Energy wins $5.2M DARPA alphavoltaic contract – Avalanche Energy has secured a $5.2 million contract from DARPA’s Rads to Watts program to develop compact nuclear batteries using alphavoltaic direct energy conversion. The Seattle-based fusion startup will build solid-state, micro-fabricated cells that convert kinetic energy from radioisotope-produced alpha particles into electricity.
• Germany launches GalvanoFusion project to develop world-first electrochemical tungsten first-wall coatings – A research consortium led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) and ionic liquid specialist IoLiTec, has launched GalvanoFusion. The project pursues what its team describes as a genuinely unprecedented material process. No method currently exists anywhere in the world for the electrochemical deposition of pure tungsten, either industrially or in a laboratory setting.
• Helical Fusion wins Tokyo government backing to develop liquid metal blanket technology for commercial fusion plants – What will make a fusion plant commercially viable? For Helical Fusion, the answer starts with the blanket – the component that absorbs plasma heat and converts it into usable energy. Tokyo’s selection of the company for its Zero Emission innovation programme, aimed at deep-tech decarbonisation, now brings up to JPY 1 billion in public funding to demonstrate that a liquid metal approach can help extend plant lifetime and improve operational efficiency.
• Realta Fusion and CFS partner on high-temperature superconducting magnets for modular fusion systems – Realta Fusion has partnered with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in a long-term deal to design and build high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets for Realta’s compact, modular CoSMo fusion energy systems. The agreement directly tackles one of the hardest engineering barriers in magnetic mirror commercialisation – securing a reliable, high-field superconducting magnet supply chain.
• EU commits €222 million to accelerate fusion from lab to grid – The European Commission has committed €222 million to fusion energy under the 2026–2027 Euratom Research and Training Programme Work Programme, adopted on 19 March 2026. The funding represents the most coordinated industrial push the EU has made toward commercial fusion deployment, moving decisively beyond basic plasma confinement research and toward the engineering, supply chain, and talent infrastructure that grid-connected fusion actually requires.
• TAE Technologies begins U.S. site selection for first 50 MWe fusion power plant targeted for early 2030s – TAE Technologies has launched multi-state site evaluation visits across the United States, moving decisively toward construction of its first fusion power plant – a 50 MWe facility targeting grid delivery in the early 2030s. Backed by a $6 billion merger with Trump Media and Technology Group and more than 25 years of reactor development, the company is now translating laboratory credibility into deployment-grade infrastructure decisions that will define its commercial trajectory.
• Black Moon Energy secures DOE contract to supply lunar Helium-3 for fusion – Black Moon Energy Corporation (BMEC) has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) to supply newly harvested Helium-3, a key fuel candidate for future fusion reactors and advanced power systems. BMEC joins a very limited number of companies that hold authorised supplier status with the DOE IP, the only federal entity permitted to sell and distribute the isotope.
• University of Rochester and Focused Energy unite in $6.9M deal to tackle laser-plasma instabilities – The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Focused Energy Inc. have announced a $6.9 million sponsored research agreement – the largest single industrial-sponsored research agreement awarded to LLE. The deal targets laser-plasma instabilities, a core technical barrier preventing inertial fusion energy from scaling toward commercial power generation.
• Economist Impact’s Fusion Fest 2026 sets the agenda for fusion’s commercial turning point – Economist Impact’s Fusion Fest returns to London on 14 April 2026, bringing together the scientists, investors, policymakers and engineers who will determine whether fusion energy moves from laboratory promise to grid-scale reality this decade. Held at Convene 200 Aldersgate, St. Paul’s, the day-long conference will tackle the hardest questions facing the sector – and Fusion Future will be covering the event as an official partner.
• Molten Salt Solutions signs fusion lithium supply deals with Type One Energy and Gauss Fusion – Molten Salt Solutions has signed strategic supply agreements with Type One Energy and Gauss Fusion to build the first enriched lithium supply chain for fusion energy at commercial scale. The deals target one of the sector’s most pressing bottlenecks: the absence of lithium-6 at the volumes needed to sustain tritium breeding in next-generation reactors.