On April 20th, nTtau Digital hosted a meeting in Santa Fe focused on volumetric neutron sources (VNS), and it turned into one of the most consequential days we've had this year for fusion commercialisation. The event drew wide attendance, including New Mexico Secretary of Economic Development Rob Black, Deputy Secretary Nora Sackett, and other members of the state's Economic Development Department. What we found was a state genuinely receptive to building a VNS industry within its borders,...

Simon Woodruff, CEO & Founder, nTtau Digital Over the past year, we've spent a lot of time in rooms with engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms who are actively trying to figure out how to build fusion power plants. Not fusion reactors — plants. The distinction matters, and it's exactly why we built NuPlant™. One of these engagements ran for the better part of a year. It started with a technical discovery session hosted by Fusion Energy Insights, where a senior engineering...

A big debate in the field of nuclear fusion is which concept would win on economics. Tokamak, stellarator or tandem mirror? Closed-field or open-field? Magnetic confinement or inertial fusion? Every fusion company has a favourite. The trouble is, analyses aren’t comparing like with like. One team's tokamak costing may assume a friendlier magnet supply chain than the stellarator team down the hall assumed for theirs. So when someone asks the question that actually matters to an investor, a...